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Getting into Stefan Molyneux levels of breeder fetish egg fixations, too.
I'd love to go to Mars and live in a shitty bunker while my lungs get shredded by irradiated razor sharp dust
"We will figure it out when we get there. Can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs. Where is your sense of adventure? You think SpaceX didn't already account for that?"
Any competent engineer would have accounted for such a basic and obvious threat to life in space and mars such as radiation. Therefore no further inquiry is required we can just give him the benefit of the doubt.
I even saw a bazinga webcomic that mocked the idea of radiation being a problem by having the "command center" at SpaceX(tm)(r) announce "someone on the internet brought up radiation! We forgot about the radiation, everyone! Stop everything!"
The only thing that didn't make that joke actually real was the stopping everything part.
It really all just boils down to “how DARE you question your betters” doesn’t it?
The whole eggs/fertility thing is really based on a huge (and largely deliberate) misunderstanding of reproductive biology and how ovarian follicles work and die. You're essentially at peak fertility at 30, most of the eggs die off before age 5.
I think a lot of egg-o-maniacs 
cherry-pick the data to fit what they already believe so they can have the strongest possible case to creep on children.
I had completely forgotten about Stefan Molyneux 
So did I, until this particular breeding fetish vampire started egg-talking.
It's so funny that the logical conclusion of this guy's life is Starlink satellites inevitably causing Kessler syndrome and preventing humans space exploration.
"Starlink" bazinga satellites are low-earth orbit, which means they'll burn up in the near future... which means more launches are constantly needed to maintain the bazinga satellite network for even more waste production and carbon dumping. The future!
I prefer to dream big. Eternal night sky pollution with 20 TW geosynchronous powersats please. Death to Earth based astronomy, or something. 
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Musk creating a Mars colony is the Star Citizen of space travel.
I think the Star Citizen grift fascinates me because it's a miniature version of the 
grift empire, from bullshit promises to fascist ideology baked right in.
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How many eggs does he think are required to make one baby lol
He doesn't know or care but he wants to keep reaching for that high score.
It also doesn't matter how many of his own kids rightfully hate him. Just keep going for that high score, like a fucking bacteria colony.
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Elon make a post without being creepy about breeding challenge
I want him to be confident enough that him and his six richest friends go early on
4 years
Wow, in my lifetime the Mars Landings^TM^ have gone from being perpetually 20 years away, to perpetually 10 years away, to perpetually 4 years away. Truly impressive!
I wonder if we’ll be down to perpetually 2 years away in 10 years!
Moon is right there, and have same conditions (no magnetic field, no atmosphere, carcinogenic dust)
It's not a treats-derived Science Victory meme the way Mars is, which is probably why it isn't romanticized the same way (and doesn't inspire venture capital and government subsidies).
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The great thing about Mars is there's no pesky age of consent laws!
King Bazinga himself has openly admitted how excited he would be to have no pesky Earth laws to restrict him.
He may be still too much of a coward to actually hop onto one of his bazinga rockets, but he certainly would enjoy the ultimate Little St. James experience if it was available to him. 
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I bet Musk creates a weapons program before he lands on Mars. If he wants to be emperor of Mars he'll need a threat in order to prevent rebellion and the colony declaring independence from him the moment it gains any kind of self sufficiency.
metabolically
I think King Bazinga meant "metaphorically" but anyone that would correct him would get fired.
lol, no one has been able to build a self-sustaining city on Earth, but I'm sure that's just all the pesky oxygen and water that is freely available getting in the way, right? Do you think he's even talked to the Biosphere people? Hell, do you think he's even watched Bio-Dome?
I've argued exhaustively, both online and in person, with devotees about this. If experiments with sealed-in colonies on Earth were failures already and in need of drastic improvements to be successful in the future, what chance does Mars-A-Lago have?
The answers I usually got were treat-brained idioms and slogans, sneering at me about my pessimism. It's not pessimism, it's the fucking science that they claim to fucking love. 
This is the worst future. I love space, I love space travel and I do truly believe expanding out to the stars is inevitable for humanity. But the governments of the world with space capable craft are either underfunded or too busy bailing out billionaire vanity projects.
I have zero confidence that this man or his circlejerk corporate stooges can get ANYTHING to land on Mars. Nor will he be able to get anyone there safely. He has no serious plan for this, he'll just throw his slave-labor money at a group of recent aerospace engineering graduates and tell them to figure it out, as long as it's under budget, of course.
I dunk hard on frequently because I am a deeply disappointed and jaded space exploration enjoyer that had a lifelong dream/fantasy of reaching for the stars that has been ideologically (and economically and politically) dominated by billionaire manchildren and their clownish personal whims for decades now.
Longest [REDACTED] comment ever. Just plug in your own thoughts on adventurism here.
The idea of leaving earth and living on some isolated colony in the middle of space lightyears away from where literally everyone in all of human history has lived and died is so fucking terrifying.
Like...we have astronauts stuck on the fucking ISS, no way in hell I am flying off to some entirely different astronomic body with the current state of space travel.
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Elon's entire spiel seems to be haulage which is just a baby step. He proclaims he'll get stuff to Mars and Presto! there will be a city of millions of people. As far as I know - he hasn't said a single word about even the most basic nuts-and-bolts problems of trying to set up even a tiny compound on fucking different planet. Like the lack of air, the lower gravity, the lack of food, the dangerous radiation, and the list goes on.
Imagine Elon had a detailed 10,000 people Mars starter city plan that he made public to much fanfare. I'm sure within the hour regular people would have started to find huge flaws and city would be big trending joke on social media. By the end of the day scientists, technicians, and engineers would have cut his plan to shreds. Elon would have a public meltdown for a week and then pretend that he "owned" his haters.
and Presto! there will be a city of millions of people
We haven't even got orbital cities or moon cities and this clown wants mars cities. The West's only functional space station is said to be going to be decommissioned in the next few decades at some point too.
The West's only functional space station is said to be going to be decommissioned in the next few decades at some point too.
Try less than a decade. Decommissioning is currently set for 2031.
Try less than a decade. Decommissioning is currently set for 2031.
Oh lmao in my head I thought we were a long ways away 
The upcoming "replacements" are the Artemis IV lunar space station and a bunch of proposals from different private companies who all want to be landlords of a future space station. All of these, including Artemis IV are in the "artist interpretation only" CGI picture phase, are attached to projects plagued by delays and problems, and set to launch "no sooner than" the end of 2028. Very likely, none of these will ever get off the ground.
The only project beyond this stage is the private Axiom Station, an upcoming series of modules set to launch to the ISS to allow corporate astronauts to live and work on the ISS, then detach and become a private leave-behind when the ISS deorbits. Fucking grim.
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making life multiplanetary is fundamentally a cost per ton to mars problem
speak american, cracker
Planet's on fire, but whitey want to go to Mars. 
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It's virtually guaranteed that even if one were to even get a viable amount of people to mars the first attempt at building a colony's doomed to some sort of "all hands lost" situation, isn't it?
All those quirky memes about dying on Mars, from Grimes included, were building up toward normalizing that idea and making it non-horrifying enough to potentially happen. Well, still horrifying for those that lost their nerve mid-flight with radiation exposure and very tight quarters and janky SpaceX shit breaking all around them for the many months on the way there. Not a moment of glory, but a long stretch of regrets.
If you give me just one billion dollars I will launch a launch a starship to Mars in under 12 months
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On one thing, Musk and I agree. It is desirable to have self-sufficient extra-terrestrial colonies. Because you never know what kind of crazy shit space can cook up to kill us all. If we could have a colony outside of Earth which has enough resources to get a few thousand people back to Earth any time, it would make it much more likely that the most advanced intelligent life we're aware of continues to exist.
Unfortunately, doofuses like Musk make it far less likely that we'll ever actually achieve that goal. By his involvement he delegitimizes the entire endeavor.
It is desirable to have self-sufficient extra-terrestrial colonies.
Having a private corporation, for profit, promise to make them, especially one ran by a fucking clown that executively meddled the ZYBERTRUKKK into existence and hasn't met a safety regulation he actually liked, is definitely a mistake even then.
Yup, obviously it isn't going to work with his involvement.
Not to mention the fact that no one has actually demonstrated how a self-sufficient extra-terrestrial colony would work. Much less one on Mars, which is frankly a ridiculous leap. Trying to make your first extra-terrestrial colony on Mars is like picking up chess and deciding that for your first match you want to go for the FIDE master title
Trying to make your first extra-terrestrial colony on Mars is like picking up chess and deciding that for your first match you want to go for the FIDE master title
A lot of so-called "spacesteaders" are billionaires that have already failed to "seastead" and decided that going to space would make it work.
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