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(DIR) Post #AltsdhGcCTlXFnMAN6 by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:18:32Z
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[when you understand this one aspect of Musk is an obvious scam then it becomes clear that ALL HIS SHIT is scams on scams on scams]Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Marshttps://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars
(DIR) Post #Altsdhx9eJnFNjG8g4 by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:19:17Z
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"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 active dynamo at Mars's dead core? No? Well. It's fine. I'm sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever."
(DIR) Post #AltsdicHBQgdRGUym0 by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:19:27Z
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"No? Huh. Well then let's discuss something else equally realistic, like your plan to build a condo complex in Middle Earth."
(DIR) Post #AltsdjJAbwzvaIZEdE by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:20:28Z
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"The South Pole is around 2,800 meters above sea level, and like everywhere else on Earth around 44 million miles closer to the sun than any point on Mars. It sits deep down inside the nutritious atmosphere of a planet teeming with native life. Compared to the very most hospitable place on Mars it is an unimaginably fertile Eden. Here is a list of the plant-life that grows there: Nothing. Here is a list of all the animals that reproduce there: None."
(DIR) Post #Altsdjp4hKWDBFUiMS by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:20:57Z
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"The summit of Mount Everest is around 8,800 meters above sea level, squarely within those balmy Earth latitudes that get nice long sunlit days all year round. Compared to anyplace on Mars it is the very womb of God. No plant life grows there. No animals live there."
(DIR) Post #AltsdkWK6X75LNjFlw by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:21:51Z
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"Humankind will never establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Ever. Moreover there is no need to try to come up with some way to build one there."
(DIR) Post #Altsdl0oHBV2rvzbI8 by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:22:44Z
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"But more importantly: There is no scenario in which humans can try to colonize Mars and also survive on Earth long enough to go live in that colony! I am sorry to be the Bad News Guy here. But there you have it: The effort to colonize Mars will help ensure nobody survives long enough to live in that colony. That makes the idea of trying to build that colony morally reprehensible."
(DIR) Post #AltsdlgdlexaxfZ0Ua by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:23:46Z
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"None of what's in the preceding uh 38 or however many exhausting paragraphs is unknown to Elon Musk, the mega-rich clod and dullard famous for buying things for more than they're worth and then making them worse, who tweeted over the weekend some silly shit about his Martian colony, ah—what even is the word here? Plan? Vision? Intention? Anyway this is a thing that he thinks must and can and will happen. He sees his SpaceX company's work as part of the endeavor to colonize Mars someday."
(DIR) Post #AltsdmGnbDsqloTsqu by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:24:58Z
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"This ordering of priorities, in which the sacrosanct goal is to extend "the probable lifespan of consciousness" and space colonization the means, is above all else a monstrous permission structure for this outspoken bigot's vile social ideas, a kind of reductio ad absurdum for what's been doing business as "effective altruism" for a while now.
(DIR) Post #AltsdmrfO9NGc9jKJk by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:25:04Z
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The fantasy—and it is a fantasy—isn't one of space travel and exploration and some bright Star Trek future for humanity, but one of winnowing and eugenics, of cold actuarial lifeboat logic, of ever greater reallocation from the dwindling many to the thriving few. That's the world as Elon Musk and his cohort want it; Mars colonization is just a pretext."
(DIR) Post #AltsdnYunLy8mHxrjE by MaxPow3r11@mastodon.online
2024-09-11T15:25:37Z
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"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. The certainty that he will never make another planet habitable is no comfort to the rest of us, when in the act of trying he may do the opposite to this one. The doomsday scenario is coming from inside the house. I hope he dies on Mars."