Elon Musk to announce SpaceX's Mars colonization plans at IAC on Tuesday (Sept. 27)

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Magnetic fields don't matter much in creating an atmosphere. Sure solar wind can erode an atmosphere in 1 billion years, but thats irrelevant. Venus has the thickest atmosphere of all the rocks in our solar system and it has no magnetic field.
 
Who are these people at this conference? Do they just let anyone come in and attempt lame comedy at a man who literally just laid out a REAL plan for human, interplanetary colonization?!
 
Did you watch the stream? It's something like a 80 - 110 day trip. Mars isn't that far.

That's a pretty long way for something to go wrong in space, either by way of malfunction or otherwise, setting the whole project back years.

It just sounds so fantastical a priority when we don't even have the technology to make it viable on a mass level that matters for most people here on earth. with so many risks for so little rewards, it feels trite when there are so many other things one could invest that money into.

Even if you colonize mars with a very small encampment, your still looking at being fully dependent on the earth for most things. And if the intent of the project is to preserve humanity in case of some shit hitting the fan, if life here goes bye bye, its just a matter of slow death or fast death being trapped up there.
 
Michael Cera's memes and funnyordie shot outs?
Who the hell are these folks?

I understand why Musk wants to zone out off the earth
 
Magnetic fields don't matter much in creating an atmosphere. Sure solar wind can erode an atmosphere in 1 billion years, but thats irrelevant. Venus has the thickest atmosphere of all the rocks in our solar system and it has no magnetic field.

Err, the solar particle radiation would still be a problem. Terraformed Mars would not have thick atmosphere so it alone might not be enough.
 
I didn't understand the Funny or Die comment. Like what?
 
The way we do it on earth - via electric currents. Also it's not clear we'd need to have a pan-planetary field - just a shield between what's important and that source of harmful ions.
 
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That's a pretty long way for something to go wrong in space, either by way of malfunction or otherwise, setting the whole project back years.

It just sounds so fantastical a priority when we don't even have the technology to make it viable on a mass level that matters for most people here on earth. with so many risks for so little rewards, it feels trite when there are so many other things one could invest that money into.

Even if you colonize mars with a very small encampment, your still looking at being fully dependent on the earth for most things. And if the intent of the project is to preserve humanity in case of some shit hitting the fan, if life here goes bye bye, its just a matter of slow death or fast death being trapped up there.

Lol, so how do we start then?

I'd love to see you next to the first person to sail a long distance. "You know man, something could go wrong. We should just stay here and spend money on improving candles or something."
 
The fuckers trying to advertise their crappy websites, comics and other shit with their questions are embarrassing and idiotic.
 
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