Comment by foxglacier
11 hours ago
That's why Musk's plan it to send a lot more so they can keep the human species going if human life on earth is destroyed by, say, a meteorite.
11 hours ago
That's why Musk's plan it to send a lot more so they can keep the human species going if human life on earth is destroyed by, say, a meteorite.
A completely unrealistic plan though, to anyone who has thought about it for half a second.
A mars colony is probably doable. A self-sustaining mars colony? For the length of time it would take a completely devastated Earth to recover? Absolutely impossible, at least with our current technology.
Think about the level of supply chain you'd need to get something like a computer or a solar panel made on Mars. Where do you get plastic? Iron ore? Copper? Pure fantasy.
It would still be cool to have a colony on mars.
Mars colony? After just a few generations the racists among us will positively jump with joy.
Sure, his ketamin-addled brain has been promising us that there would be millions of humans on Mars very soon for years now. That doesn't make it real. And that does not explain either how they'd survive, or even how they'd get there in the first place. Sending one ship to Mars is something, sending thousands is unfeasible in this century.
Also, I don't believe they'd ever be auto-sufficient, because of the aforementioned qualities of Mars: anoxic, sterile, radioactive and subzero. They'd certainly never thrive. More probably, they'd live in a kind of inescapable company-town, millions of miles away from the nearest jurisdiction, at the mercy of a guy known for brutalizing his workers, where going on strike means you probably just die. Sounds like absolute hell.
So, unfeasible, unrealistic, pointless. You can do much more good for humanity by investing here on Earth, obviously.
That sums it up quite well.