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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 171 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The guy who couldn’t run a livestream on Twitter last night wants to put computer chips in your brain.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago

Same guy who called a cave diver a pedo.. because the world class cave diver who was risking his life told him how his sub was crap

And he didn't want to listen to experts

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Computer chips that killed a bunch of monkeys that they tested those chips on.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Of course there will be no law on mars that says he HAS to provide Oxygen, and if you don't have an oxygen reserve for just that occasion then really it's your own fault.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

shouldn't have spend all of your eloncoin on martian avocado toast

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Geev deese peepuhl ayuh!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And Boeing wants to build the spaceship. Sounds like a recipe for success.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Do it.

Then get the billionaires to fight over the "right" to go first, then sit back and enjoy some fireworks lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Logitech's gonna sell some more F710s.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

Do people really think we'll colonize mars soon?

Colonizing the bottom of the ocean would be orders of magnitude cheaper, and more practical. Same with Antarctica. And there's a reason we don't do that.

I hate to sound anal, but I don't think the public appreciates how monumentally difficult space travel is, and how it gets exponentially worse with every ounce you have to carry. Even with theoretical, morally questionable tech like fission fragment drives or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Pressure is way harder to deal with than a vacuum, not that i think mars is happening any time soon

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Both have unique challenges, but overall brucethemoose is right about the overall cost comparison. For instance, we could easily have a "space elevator" equivalent to the bottom of the ocean, it'd be a fraction of the cost of maintaining a freight network to mars. Pressure is hard to deal with, but not as difficult as it is to get shit out of a gravity well as dense as Earth.

[–] Worx 5 points 9 months ago

The ocean is a lot closer though, which helps

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The main point is the usable resources. You'd have a damn near infinite source of usable resources at the bottom of the ocean meanwhile on Mars everything would need to be scavenged or shipped.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I'm not aware of any reason on why we'd want to colonize the bottom of the ocean, but there's many reasons to want to become a multi-planetary species. Space exploration has also lead to many technologies being used in everyday life today.

What's morally questionable about fission fragment drives?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Colonizing the bottom of the ocean would be harder than colonizing Mars. Not that either is a great idea, but just saying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Dealing with the immense pressure would be harder. Getting the materials to the bottom of the ocean would be trivial compared to getting them to Mars.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Spaceships in many ways are safer than sitting at the bottom of a ditch with 7 miles of water sitting on top of you at 30,000 atmospheres of pressure.

It's also darker at the bottom of the ocean than in space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Again... it's hard to appreciate how insanely difficult space travel is.

Just as an example, the lower stages of rockets are kind of like coke cans in terms of how much fuel they carry vs the actual machine itself. The engineering is insane. Just dropping a big chassis into the ocean in so much cheaper its hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yes, space travel is insanely difficult.

But there is a reason why we still have not discovered the majority of the ocean. Because it is even more difficult.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We should strive for being a space fairing species. Except these corporations are more likely to turn our moon into a billboard we can see on earth.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You guys don't understand. He was DOS DOS DOS DOS DOS DOS.... sorry my brain chip reset, happy new year, what are your plans for 2023?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

So he ran out of his 640k base memory?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Whenever I see Elon doing something obviously evil and/or stupid, I remember back to the massive hype about him, especially one video by ColdFusion in which he constantly spoke about how Elon was an entrepeneur like it was some kind of seal of quallity or mark of trust.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I’d argue “entrepreneurs” should never be trusted

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm for boarding every billionaire onto a mars rocket and send em there for Earth's sake! Cause that's what they get anyway. A unhabitable planet where only some people with tons of money live with great technology.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sell all inclusive tickets for the full value of their hoarded wealth, then distribute it to those who need it the most. And instead of Mars, they land on the moon and the atmosphere vents.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nah. Send em to mars, we can make a reality show out of it. They think they are the smartest most productive people, let's watch and see.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Tbf, he would've also had an entire team of professionals there specifically to make sure this exact thing didn't happen

And he STILL fucked it up

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Y'mean all the experts he fired?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I imagine most of the actual professionals have left or been kicked out at this point.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I actually don't think it's a big deal that there were technical problems, there were millions of people trying to get in at the same time. What I don't like is him lying that it was a ddos attack.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's weird to me though, is if they were just overloaded at the time, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to just say that and sound like you're super popular and in demand, than to make up some fake attack? I guess persecution complex beats ego stroking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s perfect for him and Trump: they’re victims, for one, and the “radical left” is out to silence their critical message.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This radical left seems to be a lot more competent. Maybe we should have them running things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I can imagine the people responsible for the tech lied to Elon that it was an attack, so he doesn't fire them

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

The guy who couldn’t run a live stream on twitter last night sells people „self driving” cars.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As I learned from Heinlein, you treat others with respect in a vacuum. Especially if there's an airlock nearby.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's not like he would be out in space/on mars.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

We only send the best to space.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Musk isn't in charge of projects at Space X, he just reaps the rewards. Space X has an entire department that does nothing except to keep musk from meddling in projects.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Space X has an entire department that does nothing except to keep musk from meddling in projects.

It's still a company where egon murks had his hands in, so no warranty is given that ANY department there achieves anything they "claim" to do, want, can, should, would but blame others to sabotage or such, same with that department. period. There was murks in it once, you never now when some shit he pooped there would hit the fan or the oxygen generator.

Do you want a "claiming to provide oxygen" system on mars or would you rather want the ACTUAL oxygen no matter who is in charge, claims to be or not but delivers it anyway?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, he'll die of old age before he could get to see humans even reach it.

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