PipfordSep 11, 2024

"Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars"

It's great to see someone FINALLY mention the magnetosphere issue, in the very first sentence no less, but this article rips into the idea so much more thoroughly than that, and with admirable gusto.

#skeptic #musk #mars

https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

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…

Show threadKevin RussellSep 11, 2024

@anandamide

There is a good not too difficult way to solve the issue. Just punch the leading edge of Mars with ice rich asteroids until you get enough spin to increase core plasticity and reboot the magnetosphere. For legal purposes this is trademarked and copyrighted. To keep it out of suck hands like Musk's.

Atmosphere jump starts too. Mars is waiting to breathe again.

#democracy

Show threadRichard AyresSep 13, 2024
@kevinrns @anandamide "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there
Show threadKevin Russell

@rayres @anandamide

Heavy dropping, or maybe heavy pitching.

Sep 13, 2024 at 1:36pmWeb