This should win a Pulitzer defector.com/neither-elon...
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
Yeah but the author didn't consider using the hyperloop to get to Mars. Rid ro quo Mr. Powers.
All the more reason to encourage Musk and his ilk to go there.
Musk just perpetuates this BS about a Mars colony and being a multi planet species because it perpetuates the "Tony Stark" myth that he is some mad genius that can do anything. People believe it and they either give him money or support. I believe his ego wants to be the first to put a man on Mars.
No, it really shouldn't, sorry. Its not serious, scientifically informed writing, just a series of catchy tropes. No, Mars doesn't need a "magnetosphere" for people to live on it. No one claims you can introduce ordinary plants to the surface of Mars to magically transform it into a second Earth.
Elon's Mars = Trump's Steaks
But we can still send Musk there, right? Like it's bad, sure, but it's not THAT bad.
i lost count of how many people i’ve had to explain this to. but this version is way funnier.
FUCKING THANK YOU! There IS one method to make Mars livable for humans, but which we will never do: gradually introducing engineered microorganisms to make it less hellish. We'd never do it, bc, for one, it would take centuries of unified vision. Millennia, possibly. With that, no reason to leave!
"In a saner society, a rich guy with Musk's well-known and unapologetically expounded views would sooner find himself under a guillotine than atop a space agency with the power to dragoon the world's resources into his k-hole John Galt cosplay." Fucking poetry.