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We're going to Mars (Original Post) Pluvious Jun 2022 OP
Smell ya later. CentralMass Jun 2022 #1
Great! We've trashed this planet so let's go trash another one Deuxcents Jun 2022 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2022 #13
We'll call it Terraforming. n/t Liberal In Texas Jun 2022 #21
Waiter! I'll have what he's having. Hugin Jun 2022 #3
You first elon...obviously has little to nonexistent science background PortTack Jun 2022 #4
One for my friend here! Hugin Jun 2022 #5
Thx Huggin...👍👍 PortTack Jun 2022 #25
"I love humanity, but I hate my employees dalton99a Jun 2022 #6
Sounds like he's really thought this through... Blue Owl Jun 2022 #7
I think he left reality a long time ago. highplainsdem Jun 2022 #8
Do it. But make those arks one way trips, no return flights for colonists? Shanti Shanti Shanti Jun 2022 #9
He's a Non-Fungible Token. Nt Baked Potato Jun 2022 #10
Who in their right mind would Disaffected Jun 2022 #11
Send me a postcard. nt Binkie The Clown Jun 2022 #12
There is no Planet B. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2022 #14
well I for one am fully in favor of this dickhead leaving the planet anarch Jun 2022 #15
I heard Bezos Brenda Jun 2022 #16
Mars is a waste of time PJMcK Jun 2022 #17
TAX THE RICH! oioioi Jun 2022 #18
"Everyone give me $100,000" dalton99a Jun 2022 #19
US has over 750 complaints that Teslas brake for no reason dalton99a Jun 2022 #20
and mini submarines will save kiddies from the "pedo guy"... oioioi Jun 2022 #22
Don't Look Up! MineralMan Jun 2022 #23
I think it is a great idea. Chainfire Jun 2022 #24

Response to Deuxcents (Reply #2)

 

Shanti Shanti Shanti

(12,047 posts)
9. Do it. But make those arks one way trips, no return flights for colonists?
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 12:39 AM
Jun 2022

Sink or swim, call up the volunteers. We have plenty of surplus people to spare, we can breed more earthers.

Disaffected

(4,545 posts)
11. Who in their right mind would
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 12:44 AM
Jun 2022

want to live on Mars? Visit, maybe. Stay for rest of life or even a long time, no thanks.

anarch

(6,535 posts)
15. well I for one am fully in favor of this dickhead leaving the planet
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 05:48 AM
Jun 2022

as long as he doesn't come back, and also we never have to hear his stupid nonsense anymore

Brenda

(1,032 posts)
16. I heard Bezos
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 06:57 AM
Jun 2022

say something similar when he was talking to Shatner before his little ride into space. But his delusional idea was that we send all of our dirty industries into space or to the Moon or Mars so Earth can return to a paradise.



PJMcK

(21,998 posts)
17. Mars is a waste of time
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 07:03 AM
Jun 2022

Our robots have done a magnificent job of detailing the red planet. It's a dead, dry dust bowl with little to offer.

Let's go to Europa where there could be life that's alive! But we don't have to send people just build more robots.

Musk cannot colonize Mars. It's too dangerous for humans: the radiation is deadly, the trip there and back is long and dangerous, the astronauts' muscles will atrophy and they will be physically weak after the half-year journey.

Mars is a fool's errand.

oioioi

(1,127 posts)
18. TAX THE RICH!
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 07:06 AM
Jun 2022
Elon Musk’s Plan to Send a Million Colonists to Mars by 2050 Is Pure Delusion

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-mars-colony-delusion-1848839584

He's a fucking moron. A fucking moron with way too much money.

dalton99a

(81,403 posts)
19. "Everyone give me $100,000"
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 07:34 AM
Jun 2022
The SpaceX CEO told Anderson that “almost anyone can work and save up and eventually have $100,000 and be able to go to Mars if they want,” in reference to the hypothesized cost of each journey. Alternatively, prospective Martians could procure funding from government sponsors or by taking out a loan, Musk said.

oioioi

(1,127 posts)
22. and mini submarines will save kiddies from the "pedo guy"...
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 08:12 AM
Jun 2022
Elon Musk says his 'pedo guy' remark wasn't about pedophilia

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/elon-musk-says-pedo-guy-remark-wasnt-a-pedophilia-claim/

Filthy rich scumbag in dire need of a comeuppance.

MineralMan

(146,255 posts)
23. Don't Look Up!
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 09:28 AM
Jun 2022

I'm pretty sure Elon Musk was the inspiration for one of the characters in that movie. It did not end well.

Chainfire

(17,471 posts)
24. I think it is a great idea.
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 09:53 AM
Jun 2022

Free transport for all conservatives to the "red planet." There they could set up their own little fascist paradise.

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