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Originally Posted by freebeard
Styxhexenhammer dropped a big black pill this morning: The "Climate Change" Elephant in the Room: Overpopulation
OTOH, Elon Musk is right now talking about a single Starship carrying 100 people will be capable of 1000 flight per year. 10 ships for a million people. Production of Raptor engines is the constraint. |
There is nothing for us on Mars. The atmospheric pressure is .006 bar. 10X below the Armstrong limit at which the water in your lungs boils at body temp.
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There is no magnetic field. Any atmosphere that does boil out gets blown away by Solar wind.
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It is really too bad Musk insists on wasting precious engineering resources on replacing life on Earth with life on Mars. Human expeditions to mars are a one way suicide mission and it is delusional to think that anything more than a few hundred people will make their way to die on Mars before we realize we have entered the decreasing side of an ER/EI energy trap here on Earth and decide it would be much wiser to devote our remaining resources to build out what we need for 10 billion people to survive here.