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Getting into Stefan Molyneux levels of breeder fetish egg fixations, too.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Elon's entire spiel seems to be haulage which is just a baby step. He proclaims he'll get stuff to Mars and Presto! there will be a city of millions of people. As far as I know - he hasn't said a single word about even the most basic nuts-and-bolts problems of trying to set up even a tiny compound on fucking different planet. Like the lack of air, the lower gravity, the lack of food, the dangerous radiation, and the list goes on.

Imagine Elon had a detailed 10,000 people Mars starter city plan that he made public to much fanfare. I'm sure within the hour regular people would have started to find huge flaws and city would be big trending joke on social media. By the end of the day scientists, technicians, and engineers would have cut his plan to shreds. Elon would have a public meltdown for a week and then pretend that he "owned" his haters.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and Presto! there will be a city of millions of people

We haven't even got orbital cities or moon cities and this clown wants mars cities. The West's only functional space station is said to be going to be decommissioned in the next few decades at some point too.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The West's only functional space station is said to be going to be decommissioned in the next few decades at some point too.

Try less than a decade. Decommissioning is currently set for 2031.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Try less than a decade. Decommissioning is currently set for 2031.

Oh lmao in my head I thought we were a long ways away wowee

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The upcoming "replacements" are the Artemis IV lunar space station and a bunch of proposals from different private companies who all want to be landlords of a future space station. All of these, including Artemis IV are in the "artist interpretation only" CGI picture phase, are attached to projects plagued by delays and problems, and set to launch "no sooner than" the end of 2028. Very likely, none of these will ever get off the ground.

The only project beyond this stage is the private Axiom Station, an upcoming series of modules set to launch to the ISS to allow corporate astronauts to live and work on the ISS, then detach and become a private leave-behind when the ISS deorbits. Fucking grim.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The so-called "best nation on earth", folks amerikkka-clap

what a shit show

compare this to the Chinese space station, lmao