With each launch, SpaceX has been discharging tens of thousands of gallons of industrial wastewater into sensitive wetlands. Environmentalists say an increase in launches will only make things worse.
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I think this is precisely why he's moving all his businesses to Texas. He feels like he can fit the state government in his pocket the way he never could in California.
I do not understand why anyone wants to live in a state that has petroleum and chemical plants all over the place, next to communities due to no regulations that care about people, only $$profit of the corporations
Look the environment and trashing one planet for Musk to get to another is an absorbable cost, as long as it happens quickly and there's no return flights.
It's not about Mars - they aren't doing the necessary preparatory research - it's billionnaire model rocketry - which makes the illegal environmental damage even more pointless.
And another question is do the economics of colonizing another planet make sense even if we continue to have live humans explore space. No matter how expensive designing a safer more habitable space station would be I suspect it would be dwarfed by a habitat on the moon or Mars.
There's no economic reason to colonize Mars unless spinoff tech could be developed along the way and even then it's hard to imagine recovering more than a fraction of the cost. The Moon would be easier, mainly because it's closer and its environment is better understood - not that it makes sense.
Space exploration makes sense, however - we live in a big and complex universe and we're bound to learn incredible things by exploring beyond Earth (we have already).
There was a book published in the late seventies or early eighties that had beautiful drawings of proposed space habitats. The one I remember most was like a cartwheel with most of the mass on the lateral areas to protect the interior.
I was a teen when the space settlement craze hit - really loved all that stuff. Even took it seriously for a while, but learned stuff in the decades since. Still fun to think about.
Nothing will change when Musk does whatever he wants, endangering the environment, drivers and our national security, and still gets to keep his billions of dollars in government contracts and security clearance.
I think it’s always best to add “with our current technology” at the end of that.
It will be possible to colonise Mars but not before Climate Change and the collapse in biodiversity nearly wipe out humanity. Surviving that is the imminent challenge
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NASA has higher standards than Texas and DeSantis cannot change that.
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It will be possible to colonise Mars but not before Climate Change and the collapse in biodiversity nearly wipe out humanity. Surviving that is the imminent challenge
Musk certainly will never escape this planet.