Elon Musk: How We're Going to Colonize Mars
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#2It is great to have long term goals this massive as it makes the other big problem steps in getting there seem smaller relatively and more attainable. Not even settling for just getting there but putting 1 million people on Mars.
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#3There's an interesting talk by Robin Hanson that argues that the absence of observed alien life should make us think human civilization is likely to go extinct and therefore that interplanetary colonization is either harder than believed or insufficient to propagate life long term.
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#5The key to space is to be there. Permanently. We can't lift everything from Earth; it's too far down our gravity well. Once we mine the bulk of the raw materials from The Moon and asteroids, space won't seem nearly so daunting. Until then, everything is an extreme effort.
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#6There's an interesting talk by Robin Hanson that argues that the absence of observed alien life should make us think human civilization is likely to go extinct and therefore that interplanetary colonization is either harder than believed or insufficient to propagate life long term. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8804856
This assumes that we should expect to observe alien life with any meaningful probability at all, which may not be a reasonable expectation and completely independent of the difficulty of interplanetary expansion.
Re: Elon Musk: How We're Going to Colonize Mars
#7The key to space is to be there. Permanently. We can't lift everything from Earth; it's too far down our gravity well. Once we mine the bulk of the raw materials from The Moon and asteroids, space won't seem nearly so daunting. Until then, everything is an extreme effort.
Yes, and until we build robots that can do most of the work, it's not going to happen either. We need to build the "tech tree" in the right order.
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#8Now this is what I call a mission statement:
'I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future.’
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#9We're exhausting this planet, what's the point of going to Mars to repeat the same mistakes ?
Re: Elon Musk: How We're Going to Colonize Mars
#10We're exhausting this planet, what's the point of going to Mars to repeat the same mistakes ?
Not going out like the dinosaurs?