musing about muskrat space program 

do you ever think about how the money elon musk has spent on stupid projects could've funded like a dozen studies on what Mars conditions will actually do to humans, featuring things like a rotating cylinder space station?

musing about muskrat space program 

@izaya It would take A LOT more money to make something like that feasible.

But the money being spent is getting us in that direction.

re: musing about muskrat space program 

@volkris while I'd disagree there; we have 90% of the technology developed and flown, it would be a case of engineering the system, it nonetheless seems irresponsible to be so set on sending people to Mars permanently without having any real data on what it will do to said people

maybe it's just elon time speaking again and there's an unspoken decade between starship flying and an attempt at a permanent settlement where they're used to deploy such a research outpost comfortably nearby, but...
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@izaya You're talking about studies being needed, so against that backdrop, how can you say we have 90% of the technology developed and flown?

That we would need studies means that we can't tell if the technology is developed.

No, I think this task is a lot farther out than you think it is, with a lot of technology left to be developed based on things that we still don't know about space.

At the moment we're barely able to put small disposable contraptions on that planet, not to mention all that's needed for a human to get there and survive.

So if anything if I had to guess I think it would be the opposite, we have 90% of the technology left to develop.

Hell, last I checked they still haven't even finished the new space suits, and that's such a small stepping stone to living on Mars.

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