Haha everyone keeps saying that! But it's pretty funny how wrong everyone is about where the mistake was.
The math is just fine, I did the simple addition correctly. It's the reading comprehension that I got wrong, I misunderstood what the sentence was saying.
No, my math is just fine, it's my reading comprehension that needs work, because I totally misunderstood what that sentence was saying.
Oh thank you, my mistake. Still the numbers are huge!
Ugh... it drives me nuts!
Musk had to borrow around $13 billion for his doomed $44 billion acquisition.
Had he spent that ~~$57~~ $44 billion on developing space hardware instead of going insane and squandering it on social media bullshit, he might have done something worthwhile. I mean... fifty seven billion! What even is that much money? He could have had his own space station for that much money! He could fly up there for weekends, just for funzies.
Entirely possible. But hey, in a space station you could have a separate agriculture ring, it may turn out that plants grow most efficiently at some particular amount of gravity, having its own ring would let you experiment, to maximize yield. Also you can use shades and mirrors to precisely control the amount of sun the plants get, even provide them constant sun if that speeds up growth.
That's true. Local water, even as trace ice crystals, would be easier to harvest than chipping apart a comet in deep zero g. But ultimately, your materials for both construction and life support are going to have to start coming from space, and asteroids and comets are the obvious choice.
The best strategy would probably be to send a relatively small vehicle to the comet (small relative to the comet), something like the power and propulsion core for the new lunar gateway, essentially just a big ion thruster with a bunch of solar panels. This can push the comet into an orbit that swings it by the moon to capture it into an earth orbit. You may need to do some earth flybys to lower the comet's orbit first, so the mission could take years. But to make up for that, comets are huge, and after it's done you have a source of many different materials to work with right here in earth orbit, enough material to last decades or more.
My assumption would be that they'll work better.
The scariest part of technology is software updates.
You're totally right, but that gravity, that green stuff, neither of those are on Mars. In orbit at least you get the gravity, rotating habitats aren't that much more complicated than static ones.
I'm not sure if Mars' poison and irradiated soil will ever be useful for growing plants. I'm telling you while it is a similarly sized planet, it's still barely useful.
I'm a space nut, and people often ask me about colonizing Mars. And I always think, sure I guess you could, but why? Once you've made it to orbit, make the most of it, why put yourself down at the bottom of a gravity well? Just colonize orbit, asteroids, or small moons. That's where the resources are, and that's where it's easy to move them.
Yeah, I don't trust proton mail.
First off, email is inherently insecure, trying to secure it is largely a waste of time.
Secondly, proton has complied with subpoenas in the past, revealing user messages to authorities/governments.
Finally, it's just too centralized, with a single point of failure, why would you trust it?
So how about a $150 external drive?
Actually, for $150 you could probably make that a 4tb drive
Oh ok, well that's a relief. I'm glad we had you and your crystal ball handy!