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0 pointsoneoff7864y ago0 comments

77 launches isn’t absurd. It is BELOW what spaceX is planning for.

There’s nothing remotely sensible about a million colonists, so that’s a pointless straw man.

Lastly, the necessities to support 8 people aren’t that different from the necessities to support 100. They scale wayyy better than linearly.

Again, the issue with supporting people on mars is not the vehicles to get there.

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ncmncm4y ago· 2 in thread

10 superheavy launches per colonist does not admit 1M colonists, and 1M colonists is at least two orders of magnitude short of self-sufficient.

It is very far from clear that Mars can physically support 100M inhabitants.

oneoff786OP4y ago

Again, nobody is saying anything about 1M colonists. That’s a stupidly high number.

100M is 100x stupider

ncmncm4y ago

Musk blathers about 1M colonists all the damn time. Almost embarrassed for him: not sure whether because he believes it could happen, or would be enough.

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