• 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦
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      3 hours ago

      They seem to honestly believe that Musk will get human beings to Mars before the end of Trump’s next term (under the assumption he has one).

      I’m sorry. This won’t happen in Trump’s next term (assuming he has one). This won’t happen in my lifetime. This won’t happen in the lifetime of anybody currently over the age of 20.

      MAYBE someone who was born today will see human beings land on Mars.

      MAYBE the grandchildren of someone born today will see human beings build something semi-permanent on Mars.

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        56 minutes ago

        I mean the technical hurdles aren’t insurmountable. But we lack the political will power to put resources needed into it.

        It would take 60s moon landing level of commitment for 10-15 years to do any sooner.

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          They might not even make it there. The radiation doses that they would take on the journey are massive and likely to do heavy damage like cataracts and organ failure, especially if solar storms were to hit while they were outside the magnetosphere of either planet.