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We are not in a meeting at SpaceX trying to please Elon What are you even talking about? I assure you, before Elon was known to anyone but his mother, Mars has been a dream for countless humans. I find it... repugnant, to have my dream presumed to be someone else's. If we took the attitude you're taking here, we'd never leave home. Explore. Expand our sciences, our capabilities, our experience. I find it astonishing that so many in the compute field, find technical issues, then immediately proclaim impossibility predicated upon the weird concept that there is no improvements or advancements possible. This and other issues, are technical issues to be solved, not just to go to Mars, but to go to the rest of the solar system, to go to other solar systems. And yes, humans should do this. Yes, we should do this. You may say "how?", with perhaps a smug look on your face, as if my specific knowledge predicates a conclusion on the solution. Nonsense. This is the part of 'economic activity' and 'scientific advancement' I spoke about. Every aspect of space flight has been accompanied with vast improvements in our knowledge to achieve the task at hand. This will be no different, we will solve it, whether by materials science, or generation of a magnetic field, or whatever is required. We'll find a solve, we'll do it, and that's that. Again, rebuttles of "well describe precisely how" or "that makes no sense, magnetic field?!" are senseless here. You may as well go to 1634, and sound proud and decry how it is impossible to breath in space, how can someone possibly live without air! Of course our materials science improved, we can make viable space suits, our capacity to store compressed gases, filter CO2, and on and on all improved. And now, it seems as child's play. So such grabbing at the impossible is absurd to me. Instead, try grasping at the possible. And know that humans, a great number of them want to make the journey. And yes, we should not stand in their way. Good grief, more humans die from car crashes a day in any major US city, than have every died in space. More humans die being tangled in bedsheets, in a week, than have ever died in space. Driving a car is a necessity for some, but to throw concern up about the death of humans, who are literally expanding our species capabilities and scientific knowledge, is extremely short sighted. I urge you, recant this belief. These ways. Join us on this side of the line. The side that sees challenges as opportunities, not as liabilities. |
Just because we had a man on the Moon, does not mean we can have a man on the Sun...
Did you even looked at the radiation argument or the soil composition?