Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]

Post by blhack » Tue, Sep 27, 2016, 9:55 PM UTC

monk_e_boy wrote: post #417

dudus wrote: post #277

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 g…

> that burning man felt like mars with a lot of shit and no water It was one of the dumbest things I've heard in a while. Do these people not realise that these comments will go down in history. Also the "like, I was, like, thinking, like" valley girl talk was very odd (I'm from the UK) to hear as I didn't think people, like, talked like that in real life.

Post by squidfood » Tue, Sep 27, 2016, 9:56 PM UTC

anexprogrammer wrote: post #473

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,…

We need a lot more like Musk, whether you agree with space or not. Investing their resources in crazy ideas of their heart, some might just work. We don't progress the species with digging up more rocks, building more stuff, selling more stuff, or dare I say it, finding a new way to get a cab. A few more vastly wealthy eccentrics building teams to play with space, fusion (carefully I hope), generation, or whatever pi…

Post by bjelkeman-again » Tue, Sep 27, 2016, 9:58 PM UTC

Grishnakh wrote: post #476

TeMPOraL wrote: post #356

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Which immediately suggests a way to help with the Mars plan - in the time SpaceX and (hopefully) others are building the transportation architecture, someone should go out there and try to set up a self-sustaining colony on the pole or in the middle of a desert. Data and experience collected will be invaluable and directly useful for the Mars mission.

>someone should go out there and try to set up a self-sustaining colony on the pole or in the middle of a desert. That's already been done. It was called "Biosphere II", set up in the Arizona desert. It failed.

Post by ChampCrawDaddy » Tue, Sep 27, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

banach wrote: post #500

The SpaceXes of the age of colonization, such as the East India Company, used to sell shares to fund their voyages. I was a bit surprised not to hear Musk mention this as a funding option, since he just delivered the greatest Kickstarter pitch of all time...

Post by benevol » Tue, Sep 27, 2016, 10:02 PM UTC

jdietrich wrote: post #481

benevol wrote: post #392

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> Spirituality alone won't help you survive winter, regardless of how developed your mind is. It's funny that you would say that - you may want to take a quick look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6XKcsm3dKs (The main site is: http://www.icemanwimhof.com/ )

There is no good scientific evidence that Hof's breathing techniques account for his ability to withstand cold temperatures, rather than some kind of genetic difference. Four people have died while attempting to follow his 'technique'. http://www.parool.nl/binnenland/-iceman-oefening-eist-opnieu...