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Subject: Re: OT?: Musk: We are going straight to Mars
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 17:35:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 08:06:34 -0800, john larkin wrote:

> On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 08:40:11 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>>On a sunny day (Sun, 5 Jan 2025 06:12:18 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Jasen
>>Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> wrote in
>><vld7s2$3c22c$4@gonzo.revmaps.no-ip.org>:
>>
>>>On 2025-01-04, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
>>>> Elon Musk: “We’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a
>>>> distraction.�
>>>> What to make of Musk's comments that are critical of NASA's lunar
>>>> plans?
>>>>  https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/elon-musk-were-going-straight-
to-mars-the-moon-is-a-distraction/
>>>
>>>Musk seems promising, but he has a history of not delivering.
>>
>>SpaceX, Tesla, X, Startlink...
> 
> Yes. He has ideas.
> 
> But colonizing Mars is silly.

I'll wager there would be no shortage of volunteers for such a mission, 
though. 99.9% of whom would have no idea what they're letting themselves 
in for. Just imagine the sacrifices you'd have to make.