This is the most autistic thing I've read this week

Is he a virgin?

lmao

He's dating supermodels and has six sons. This story is just PR to make him appear relatable to your average nerd.

So where's the cartoon of Elon Musk in the corner at a party, with people fucking in the middle of the room?
>I wish I were at home designing rockets.
>These costumes suck.
>Earth gravity makes my feet hurt.
>I can't drink because my car can't drive itself.

I will never hate anyone as much as I HATE Elon Musk. This stupid fucking bald headed HACK is a leech and one of the most corrupt individuals tangentially related to science.

Soyboy nu-males worship him beca use "HE'S JUST LIKE MY CAPESHIT PLAYBOY HEROES!!!!XX UPVOTE UPVOTE!!! SECOND COMING OF TESLA!", when in reality, the only similarity he has with Tesla is his dumb fuck ideas, except Musk is lying while Telsa was mentally ill.

He's a hack charleton. The Hyperloop is a joke to real civil engineering, and the only reason Tesla shills it is to delay the high speed rail in California, something actually useful, so he can sell his shitty cars that have been around since 1880 and so the land around his headquarters isn't devalued.

Then there's his "le Mars!" bullshit. I've not seen ONE practical design for a spacecraft, habitat, suit or anything that could actually work on Mars, let alone get people there.

He's a fucking failure welfare queen hack.

>inb4 MUH ROCKETS

So what? NASA could have done that if they gave the money to them. Musk is an active HINDRANCE to humanity, not help, and the all the stupid nu-males who think they can reclaim their masculinity by emulating what they see as a playboy billionaire here to save humanity, but is actually just a failure and a charleton, are kidding themselves.

You don't hate Elon Musk. You don't know anything about him. You are expressing a different sort of rebellion that you are inappropriately channeling on him. All of this is fine, but you really should explore where your emotions are coming from. I would hate for you to one day accidentally turn that rage onto children or yourself. Given the option, I guess the latter is preferred.

Nice pasta

Good for him. I think he really is autistic and it's not PR. One only has to watch one of his public speeches.

I agree with you that Hyperloop is dumb. the rest seems legit though.

Absolutely this if the US was a normal country there would be government oversight to prevent such conmen from ever gaining traction and disrupting the markets.

Its not. The problems with settling Mars are very specific and technical, not just related to money. Oxygen filtration, feeding people in conditions similar to Antarctica, lack of infrastructure, lack of efficient water collection (hint - "just melt ice" is not a solution, its incredibly expensive and although there's plenty of water on Mars, its very diffuse), unknown physiological hazards, the list goes on and I've not seen any actual, concrete evidence Musk has solved these problems, just flashy 3D models. I believe Musk picked Mars because its a lofty aspiration he never has to deal with, rather than The Moon because people would start asking why he isn't doing it now, given we already can go there in less than a week. There's no real benefit to settling Mars over the Moon, because we know we can get to the Moon right now and possibly even save people if they injure themselves or get ill, and on Mars everyone would have to be indoors anyway, same as the Moon.

I'm a techno-optimist in the extreme because I think its useless not to be, if it isn't possible than so be it, but I do believe humans will have colonized the galaxy in 5 million years, however, its important not to be so optimistic you sit around day dreaming all day instead of solving more real, immediate goals.

Sometimes you shoot for the stars and land on the moon, sometimes you shoot for the stars and never actually get anywhere because you're sat around circlejerking how great you are because you dream big.

Maybe he has but isn't sharing the details because it's boring. I'm pretty sure ISS research has addressed most of these issues.
> There's no real benefit to settling Mars over the Moon
Totally wrong, mars is an actual planet with water and minerals and seasons, the moon is just a barren rock with corrosive soil and no atmosphere

No he hasn't. He hasn't patented anything and he hasn't released anything publicly, which is pretty damning considering even Project Longshot had an actual design that could feasibly work and was released to the public. And no, the ISS hasn't addressed any of these issues. Research is still ongoing.

> mars is an actual planet with water and minerals and seasons, the moon is just a barren rock with corrosive soil and no atmosphere

And? Just because its a planet doesn't mean its better. In fact it can toss up even more problems, such as the massive dust storms.

>water

There's water on the Moon and because of its proximity to Earth, we can ship it there.

>minerals and seasons

Seasons aren't important, because they're not going to be going outside anyway and we already have suits that can be used on the Moon to go out. During a project this dangerous, I'd rather have a consistent vacuum than unpredictable season fluctuations. Unless you're talking about terraforming, which will take thousands of years anyway and having an established Moon base to launch things off for a fraction of the cost on Earth would be very beneficial.

You seem to think that the goal of Spacex/Elon is to cover and develop solutions to the entire problem/industry of space colonization, but that's not the case. Elon has stated multiple times that they're pretty much only focused on moving people and cargo. They want to be the railroad, they aren't also being Sears and shipping flat-packed houses to the frontier, at least not yet.

And sure, NASA could have made rockets comparable to the F9, but it would have taken longer, been more expensive, and design iteration would have been glacial, like what we've seen happening with the SLS. NASA itself recognizes that it, being a government organization, will always be slower with development than the private sector, which is why they made the cargo-delivery contract with Spacex that was pivotal to F9 development.

Then he shouldn't have moved away from those "goals" by setting concrete dates such as 2022 and talking about sending people hired by Space X out of the ship to mine and build a base.

"Our aspirational goal is to send our first cargo mission to Mars in 2022. The objectives for the first mission will be to confirm water resources and identify hazards along with putting in place initial power, mining, and life support infrastructure. A second mission, with both cargo and crew, is targeted for 2024, with primary objectives of building a propellant depot and preparing for future crew flights. The ships from these initial missions will also serve as the beginnings of our first Mars base, from which we can build a thriving city and eventually a self-sustaining civilization on Mars."

spacex.com/mars

I mean look at those pictures, how is that anything but full on colonization?

Kek

I need this in my life.

lol

>its incredibly expensive
?
You drill down to some lake and melt it with a giant nuclear reactor, which also provides you with your power.

Or simply solar panels

Password?

Mars is generally just a more pleasant looking place to live. Looks like Arizona, USA whereas the moon is a barren hellscape.

Elon forgot the password

>There's water on the Moon

There may or may not be some water on lunar poles. We dont know whether it is enough for a colony and whether other volatiles such as nitrogen and carbon are there.

On Mars this is not an issue.

Also, Mars has higher gravity. It may even be enough for a colony.

I am all for Moon first but there are good reasons to believe Mars is better for a colony.

the moon is a big place, so volitiles may be in sufficient quantities when you comb a larger area
if there isn't enough, could always just grab a couple NEOs to fill the supply gap where needed

There's a lot of resources on Mars that are not on the moon. Did you ever think maybe his plan is to build the basic infrastructure and he's shilling it now to get other companies on board to do the actual mining?

>>"what they see as a playboy billionaire"
>>six kids, supermodel wife, chills at sex parties discussing space travel
Kek

hi thunderfoot
how are you doing today

you gotta buy the drill and reactor, gotta transport everything, gotta assemble and construct it all, and then continuously maintain both in a place where getting replacement parts is an absolute pain, and thus expensive

Antarctica is in complete darkness for half the year, no sun at all, and mars is farther from the sun, significantly reducing the amount of sunlight they're getting, in addition to the massive fuck off dust storms

this isn't a video game, there's more details to this shit

considering the radiation both get, we'd be living underground, making both pretty much the same for colony attempts

No, he aspires to be the modern day Genghis Khan after all.

>tfw pulled down by gravity
I can't imagine the agony he must be going through everyday.