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Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]

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Post by mandeepj »

mikeash wrote: post #148

Some of the comments here make me think of crabs in a pot pulling down the ones who try to climb out. Nobody's making you participate in this venture. If you don't like it, then you're free to go do whatever it is you do like. You might think Musk could better direct his efforts and resources elsewhere, but most other billionaires don't do anything all that interesting, they just invest their money in mundane stuff,…

> Nobody's making you participate in this venture. If you don't like it, then you're free to go do whatever it is you do like.

It should make its way to HN guidelines.

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Post by serge2k »

mikeash wrote: post #148

Some of the comments here make me think of crabs in a pot pulling down the ones who try to climb out. Nobody's making you participate in this venture. If you don't like it, then you're free to go do whatever it is you do like. You might think Musk could better direct his efforts and resources elsewhere, but most other billionaires don't do anything all that interesting, they just invest their money in mundane stuff,…

> So why are you upset with this one and not all those others?

Because most others aren't constantly being worshipped by people on HN and the like. Musk worship was the reason I stopped bothering with the technology subreddit.

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Post by daeken »

davidw wrote: post #257

Jeez, they should have done some vetting of the people asking questions. Some of these are horrible and a waste of time.

Yeah, all questions should've gone into a queue for review as the talk was going on. I had to shut off the Q&A; this was just cringeworthy.

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Post by mAritz »

40acres wrote: post #267

Elon mentioned that there is no physical frontier left to explore on Earth, what about deep water exploration?

I think he meant that you can go anywhere physically on earth, if you want to.

You can go to deep water. That doesn't mean we've been everywhere in deep water, or even on land.

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Post by dudus »

Watching live the announcement and presentation by Elon on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YxNYiyALg

Where the hell did they get this audience from? Is this hosted on a frat house with some academic invites?

There's a dude jokingly saying that burning man felt like mars with a lot of shit and no water, there's a guy plugging his comic book, there's a guy making a joke on how we should send Michael Cera to Mars, a girl complaining about Space X not hiring people from other countries, a girl asking to go on stage and give him a kiss, a guy that identified himself as a local idiot that I'm pretty sure is completely drunk, ....

There are some good questions too, but I just can't understand it.

Elon just went on stage and delivered a plan so ambitious you couldn't even imagine. I have thousands of questions, and astonished these people couldn't think of anything else.

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Post by disantlor »

davidw wrote: post #6

This is so pleasant to see after being bombarded with US presidential politics. Science, hope and progress!

...and then you get to the Q/A section and start to understand how we ended with a self-aggrandizing anti-intellectual presidential candidate

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Post by freehunter »

lucb1e wrote: post #10
xur17 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was supposed to start at 1:30PM CST [0], but it sounds like it is delayed [1] a few minutes [2]. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=1%3A30+cst [1] https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/780835809696092161 [2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/780838839644483586

> CST sigh Central standard time I'm guessing, so mid-US I guess "central" and "standard" mean here, so I'm guesstimating GMT-7. That would put it around 8:30 GMT.

You're too lazy to look up the start time so you ask some one to tell you, then when they tell you, you're too lazy to convert the time zone they used. You're acting like a child. Use Google if it's so damn inconvenient for you.

You're an adult with the Internet right in front of you, act like it.

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Post by wott »

sfeng wrote: post #89
astazangasta wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doing what, blowing up rockets? Shipping goods to LEO like people have been doing for literally decades? Mars has no atmosphere. Who is going to solve that niggling issue to being a multiplanetary species? Who's even close? Musk is not "doing it".

1,258 people currently live at the McMurdo research station on the South Pole. The record high temperature there is still well below freezing. Humans would not be able to survive there _except_ we have invented ways of keeping them alive using housing and clothing technology.

That's not even remotely comparable. McMurdo is not self-sufficient by any measure. People do not live their life there either. (Oh, and they can breath outside. A minor detail.)
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