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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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If you accept the imho insane idea that a Mars colony is worth building, using Luna as a stepping stone makes sense. You can debug a lot of issues with recycling, growing food, low gravity, slow resupply etc. with a faster feedback loop.
the virile space men will have plenty of nubile females to pump out babies
Weirdly, the moon might actually be more hostile that mars… the dust is sharper, the gravity is lower, the radiation is worse, the nights are longer and colder, there’s less water…
It is a much cheaper and quicker means of murdering a bunch of astronauts though, so it does have that going for it.
There's also a better chance that Elon exits the planet sooner.
He hasn’t even done a suborbital flight yet, has he? I don’t seem him being brave enough to even get as far as the moon, even assuming he’s healthy enough.
Yeah he is one of the few space fan billionaires who actually didnt go up. Shows he at some level knows he is full of ahit.
Shhh, don't tell him.
@rook my grandpa was working in the Rhine Basin and Siberia as a Coal miner under ground. I think this will be considered a holiday for your lungs compared to moon. :D
@rook @gerikson Yeah, but Mars has a lot more perchlorates, so watch your thyroids.
oh god is our childrens' 9/11 going to be a moon colony imploding
@hypnicjerk @rook ideally a colony composed solely of oligarchs and "AI"-driven sexbots / maids.
as usual, felon just has no imagination and is basing his silly plan straight off any number of scifi books. but some dipshit stan is of going to ecstatically praise him for this "revolutionary" "forward-thinking" idea
i've heard they like to read sf, they might want to read heinlein's luna stories and miss the point entirely
You could also technically do all of that debugging before you even get to the moon, though. Also has the added benefit of not dying if something goes awry.