Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars in six years

Sep 27, 2016 11:25 PM

Tuvano

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Now, I'm all for reaching for the stars and what not, but is anybody else wondering why we aren't practicing building a livable residence on the Moon before we spend a shit ton of money to fuck up on Mars? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/27/elon-musk-spacex-mars-colony

Because the aliens there warned us not to go back

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because you can't Terraform the moon.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Call cpt Shepard.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We checked out the moon but it's in a bad part of town. The neighbor is really bringing housing prices down.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

It's true. The sheer size of the moon shields us from most of the impacts that would otherwise hit Earth. Planets are usually safer

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Get your ass to Mars.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Get your ass to Mars.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Will the debt collectors be able to find me there?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Maybe....

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

theyre not really the same thing. at least mars has an atmosphere. we don't gain that much from living on the moon

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Moon has Helium-3 in it.

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We're probably never going to live off world in a permament or large sense

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Anyone going to Mars will be permanent residents, that's for sure.

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Also when the astronauts went there, all of them had breaches in their space suits from moon dust. It is the finest particle that it 1

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makes doing something long term problematic seeing as no matter what they tried to do the several times they landed there they never could 2

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figure out how to fix it. Over a long enough period of time it would breach their suits killing them. sauce next

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