Elon musk is very good at making himself the center of as many conversations about technology as possible.
He should not be taken as a source of information of any reliability.
Living on mars with tech not too far beyond current tech is like living in antarctica today. It’s possible, but it isn’t clear why you would want to. A few researchers on a base, not much else.
Think ISS but with red dust out the windows.
At some point, which might be soon or not so soon, tech is advanced enough that it becomes easy to get to mars. But at that point, traditional biological humans on mars might be stupid, compared to say self replicating robots containing computers running uploaded human minds in the asteroid belt.
A mars base is cool scifi. But it might turn into the largest white elephant in history. It doesn’t solve any obvious practical purpose in increasing human wellbeing or industrial capability.
Sure, at some point you are disassembling all the planets to build a dyson sphere. But before that, a mars landing doesn’t actually need to mean any real progress.
Thanks for your comment! The goal should be to colonize our solar system before advancing to another. Learning to develop an atmosphere would be man’s greatest achievement because then we would not be dependent on our planet but we could colonize any planet with the right composition/distance from its star etc.
Space travel is Man’s next journey and I’m here for it, if that means downloading my consciousness onto a self-replicating robot, count me in haha although I’m only studying to be a pilot; I don’t pretend to be a computer engineer or neurologist.
Elon musk is very good at making himself the center of as many conversations about technology as possible.
He should not be taken as a source of information of any reliability.
Living on mars with tech not too far beyond current tech is like living in antarctica today. It’s possible, but it isn’t clear why you would want to. A few researchers on a base, not much else.
Think ISS but with red dust out the windows.
At some point, which might be soon or not so soon, tech is advanced enough that it becomes easy to get to mars. But at that point, traditional biological humans on mars might be stupid, compared to say self replicating robots containing computers running uploaded human minds in the asteroid belt.
A mars base is cool scifi. But it might turn into the largest white elephant in history. It doesn’t solve any obvious practical purpose in increasing human wellbeing or industrial capability.
Sure, at some point you are disassembling all the planets to build a dyson sphere. But before that, a mars landing doesn’t actually need to mean any real progress.
Thanks for your comment! The goal should be to colonize our solar system before advancing to another. Learning to develop an atmosphere would be man’s greatest achievement because then we would not be dependent on our planet but we could colonize any planet with the right composition/distance from its star etc.
Space travel is Man’s next journey and I’m here for it, if that means downloading my consciousness onto a self-replicating robot, count me in haha although I’m only studying to be a pilot; I don’t pretend to be a computer engineer or neurologist.