In the long term, to survive, humanity will eventually need to move beyond Earth, no planet lasts forever.
The alarming thing is not that Musk’s ambition is fundamentally incorrect, but his timeline is absolutely ludicrous. The sun isn’t exploding tomorrow. We don’t need boots on Mars in 1 generation, because to send them now is an almost assured suicide mission.
Lunar missions are still entirely appropriate and useful for us to learn the ins and outs of long-term extraterrestrial habitation. It’s closer, it’s cheaper, and it’s safer. It’s just plain logical that we should be cutting our teeth on the Moon first.
My fear is that if Musk gets his way, he’ll doom a crew of young, hopeful astronauts, and in doing so, evaporate the political will for space exploration for several generations. In his haste, Musk may cost us 100 years or more.
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Trump was the president who re-established Space Council after being disbanded in 1993. Frankly removing the council again should be correct because it barely does anything and any responsibility should be transferred to NASA.
diener1 on
I don’t think it’s crazy to think a council that was ended more than 30 years ago and only re-established by Trump at the start of his previous term might not actually be crucial.
devo_inc on
What’s Musk’s long con here? Trump’s backing him with his mission to Mars, but surely the people that voted for Trump have much more important problems than getting to Mars. Is the Mars thing just a cover for satellite dominance?
GM_PhillipAsshole on
How much does anyone want to bet that Trump is going to shutter NASA and fold it in to SpaceX
879190747 on
Next is NASA and all the global warming science with it.
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Less regulation brings much higher risk, but vastly faster progress.
Its probably the only way to get a manned mission to mars any time soon.
Even if it is likely to end in disaster.
Lobbying is the funniest word for the guy literally being in trump’s lobby.
Looks like Americans won’t be (safely) going back to the moon anytime soon.
Musk has shown that it is, in fact, possible to buy the POTUS. Or, in this case, PINO.
I’m personally shocked that a narcissistic man-child megalomaniac would be against a group of people looking into what he was doing. Shocked.
Oh, you don’t say? I feel like this was a given, with how Musk basically owns Trump.
The National Space Council had been dead for 24 years until Trump revived in 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Space_Council#2017_revival
In the long term, to survive, humanity will eventually need to move beyond Earth, no planet lasts forever.
The alarming thing is not that Musk’s ambition is fundamentally incorrect, but his timeline is absolutely ludicrous. The sun isn’t exploding tomorrow. We don’t need boots on Mars in 1 generation, because to send them now is an almost assured suicide mission.
Lunar missions are still entirely appropriate and useful for us to learn the ins and outs of long-term extraterrestrial habitation. It’s closer, it’s cheaper, and it’s safer. It’s just plain logical that we should be cutting our teeth on the Moon first.
My fear is that if Musk gets his way, he’ll doom a crew of young, hopeful astronauts, and in doing so, evaporate the political will for space exploration for several generations. In his haste, Musk may cost us 100 years or more.
Trump was the president who re-established Space Council after being disbanded in 1993. Frankly removing the council again should be correct because it barely does anything and any responsibility should be transferred to NASA.
I don’t think it’s crazy to think a council that was ended more than 30 years ago and only re-established by Trump at the start of his previous term might not actually be crucial.
What’s Musk’s long con here? Trump’s backing him with his mission to Mars, but surely the people that voted for Trump have much more important problems than getting to Mars. Is the Mars thing just a cover for satellite dominance?
How much does anyone want to bet that Trump is going to shutter NASA and fold it in to SpaceX
Next is NASA and all the global warming science with it.