Space X announces 42-engine reusable rocket

[Ed Anger]

Wut

[The Brain]

Sigh.

[jimmy olsen]

Musk published his plans in an online journal.

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/space.2017.29009.emu

[Rex Francorum]

Did you think something like the discrediting of earthly empires would stop humanity's eternal need to colonize? Hell no. Watch out universe.

But who would want to live there? I get why people would want to be the first to go there, the desire to explore, etc, but to actually colonize it and have people live there permanently? I don't see it.

Earth won't sustain human life in a few billion years. We need to act early.

Seriously, it is true that the missions to the Moon or Mars seem to lack real purpose other than achieving a successful landing.

[jimmy olsen]

Did you think something like the discrediting of earthly empires would stop humanity's eternal need to colonize? Hell no. Watch out universe.

But who would want to live there? I get why people would want to be the first to go there, the desire to explore, etc, but to actually colonize it and have people live there permanently? I don't see it.

Earth won't sustain human life in a few billion years. We need to act early.

Seriously, it is true that the missions to the Moon or Mars seem to lack real purpose other than achieving a successful landing.

Bezos and Musk definitely have huge long term plans.

Musk wants to build a sustainable civilization on Mars.

Bezos wants to move industry into cislunar space, colonize the orbitals and monopilze the resources of near Earth asteroids.

[Ed Anger]

Musk is a homo.

[Razgovory]

I'm still not seeing what is economical about a city on Mars.  Cities tend to be built near places where there are natural resources or areas of easy transportation.  This is like building a city in the middle of Baffin Island without the benefit of air.

[Eddie Teach]

Bezos wants to move industry into cislunar space,

Transphobic of him.

[CountDeMoney]

This is stupid.  NASA should be doing all this.

Oh wait, I forgot.  Government performing in the name of the national interest sucks.

[Admiral Yi]

Bezos and Musk definitely have huge long term plans.

Musk wants to build a sustainable civilization on Mars.

Bezos wants to move industry into cislunar space, colonize the orbitals and monopilze the resources of near Earth asteroids.

The fact that two billionaires have vanity projects and are trying to raise money from similarly-minded idle rich does not address the question of what the fuck the point would be for the rest of us.

[Eddie Teach]

Must there be a point for us? I'm not investing anything.

[Admiral Yi]

Must there be a point for us? I'm not investing anything.

Timmy has talked before about public funding for building Muskville on Mars.

[Valmy]

Do we need a reason to expand our stellar colonial empire? Pity about the lack of natives to exploit though.

[jimmy olsen]

Bezos and Musk definitely have huge long term plans.

Musk wants to build a sustainable civilization on Mars.

Bezos wants to move industry into cislunar space, colonize the orbitals and monopilze the resources of near Earth asteroids.

The fact that two billionaires have vanity projects and are trying to raise money from similarly-minded idle rich does not address the question of what the fuck the point would be for the rest of us.

Is this a serious question? The first men and the first nation that effectively exploits the resources of the solar system will grow fabulously wealthy. That's like asking "what's the point of these rich merchants investing in steam engines to the rest of us" in the mid18th century.

Cheap platinum group metals and rare earth minerals will lower the cost of electronics and many industrial devices, and allow engineers to design and build many technological advances that rely on those materials being cheap. As a bonus, mining in space has none of the enviornmentally harmful effects that mining on earth does.

[The Brain]

As a bonus, mining in space has none of the enviornmentally harmful effects that mining on earth does.

I'm sure environmental groups are gonna fully agree. They don't even think we have the right to fuck up our own planet, surely they'll love for us to rape space.