“Oh, you are asking me about an actual problem with my unrealistic plans to colonize Mars? I have no idea, but I must say we plan to colonize Mars soon in order to get money from the stupid investors, lmao”

https://twitter.com/marinakoren/status/1461114697713954820

:guts-rage: Just use piss and shit you fucking moronic manchild!

I’m as far from an expert as you can get and even I fucking know how this works.

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I’ve read some sci-fi stories where they use a thick layer of water to attenuate solar radiation. But I don’t think it’s anywhere near a solved problem. Musk is a twit.

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What was the one where the whole crew had to hide from a radiation storm behind the water tanks?

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No but that sounds like it’s in the same vein.

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Its solved in so far as adding a large mass to the exterior of the ship can dramatically reduce the hazards of deep space travel. But its still a problem in the sense that getting large amounts of material into space is horribly expensive and difficult.

There was some proposal by the Chinese to build a kilometer long spacecraft, for instance. And if you’re willing to invest that much material into a spacecraft, that opens up your options quite a bit.

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Woof. A km long? I guess they have cargo ships almost that big that endure far greater pressures and stresses than a spaceship would, but holy shit that’s ambitious.

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musk is a good billionaire… FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!1!

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I hhate that I get this reference

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Some problems might be impossible, like low gravity

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The science suggests that embryonic development needs gravity

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Musk is going to die in an explosion and they’re going to make him a tech martyr

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He’s never setting foot on any of his own rockets lmao

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ah but does he ride in any of his own cars

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Given how many rich people have died in small-plane accidents, I really think Billionaire Self-Preservation Instinct is overrated.

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