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By Albert Burneko

9:00 AM EDT on September 11, 2024

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars's dead core? No? Well. It's fine. I'm sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. No? Huh. Well then let's discuss something else equally realistic, like your plan to build a condo complex in Middle Earth.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We really don't. We can barely make it to orbit. Boeing is failing at even doing that.

It's like saying your grandpa can climb Mount Everest because he can shamble to the local tesco. It's not even close.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

this is straight up nonsense. we get into orbit just fine, ISS has been operating for decades. Going beyond that is only a matter of political will, not a limit of tech or engineering. In fact they are working on Artemis to go back to the moon right now, and Mars after that.

and i actually disagree with the person above that we can go to mars right now. there are issues they need to figure out, but they are solvable problems. This isn’t like cold fusion that is 30 years away from being 30 years away.

also boeing isn’t representative of the aerospace industry or even just NASA. They are mismanaged and negligent. they can’t even build airplanes, never mind spacecraft.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Going beyond that is only a matter of political will

Yeah, who's willing to murder a bunch of hapless astronauts?

also boeing isn’t representative of the aerospace industry or even just NASA. They are mismanaged and negligent. they can’t even build airplanes, never mind spacecraft.

Tell that to NASA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, who’s willing to murder a bunch of hapless astronauts?

pure ignorance.

Tell that to NASA.

what does this even mean? NASA knows, that's why they didn't let Boeing take astronauts back. NASA had concerns and acted accordingly, as a competent organization should.