Yes! The experience of getting to and living on Mars would absolutely suck ass and I do not understand why anyone gets excited about it
sorry in advance for airing out this pet peeve of mine at such preposterous length 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...
They get excited about it because they haven't toured, or read about, the Biosphere.
@weinersmith.bsky.social@zachweinersmith.bsky.social wrote a whole book about it!
People have no idea what space flight currently looks like. Using the toilet involves a bag and a vacuum. Living in space is fucking nasty and uncomfortable (source my wife works on life support systems for manned space flight).
Tech people seem remarkably oblivious to the failure rates of their own creations. Mars colonies, AI movies… they flatter themselves by overestimating usefulness and functionality of tech solutions. Gentlemen, you are simply not that good.
Nobody who wants to move to Mars is willing to consider Nebraska
There's like one guy I'd send up there and he also happens to be the guy who claims he can make it happen.
I think it comes down to the context of who is proposing this. Maybe Musk thinks he can get there or maybe he doesn't. But what he can do is convince goverments to spend billions on this boondoggle that will always be a couple of years away but never quite there yet. Its the gravy train he wants.
I could imagine a scenario in about 1000 years from now where we have made this a desirable prospect, but not before that.
It ain't the kind of place to raise your kids; in fact, it's cold as hell.