most likely because he wants to launch his own and charge america through the nose
FYI the plan was the deorbit it in 2030.
Apparently, Elon wants that sooner rather than later.
You gotta wonder if today’s fight with the previous commander of the ISS had anything to do with it.
It would be the most petty, dumb, and childish thing to call for the de-obiting of the ISS over a tweet, but my expectations for him get lower each day.
“Let’s go to Mars”
Imagine living some place where you have to pay Musk for your air and water.
The book A City On Mars is a great read about why everything Mars settlement enthusiasts want to do is a bad idea, and yes it covers the problem of a private company controlling your air supply.
Lemmy user (me) recommends Elon Musk to be fired into the Sun ASAP
Why wouldn’t he? Now even more money can flow towards spacex’s not-gonna-happen goal of going to Mars.
Simpsons did it first! In an episode the rich and smart were sent on a ship as the earth is ending. Thought the smart folks will just be replaced by AI at this point. Once it becomes a reliable repository for knowledge - meaning no ‘need’ for
fart smellassmart fellas.The conclusion of such an approach is even broached by Wall-E, disney of all folks.
The Apartheid Manchild has this weird obsession with Mars.
There will be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next decade. (I frankly doubt that there will even have been human footprints on Mars in the next decade!) There will be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next century. There will likely be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next millennium. And I’m saying that last one not because I don’t think we’d have the technology in a thousand years, but rather because there is no point in living on Mars.
Mars has nothing we need that’s worth maintaining a settlement in the face of conditions harsher than the absolute worst the Earth has to offer. If people want to live in a permanently cold shithole with nothing usefully accessible they can just build a house on Antarctica. It’s a far cheaper way to fuck around and find otu.
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I disagree. We should orbit him.
