Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP
“There is very little incremental utility. Let’s go to Mars.”…
Was this before, or after he called a former commander of the ISS "fully retarded?"
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.
FYI the plan was the deorbit it in 2030.
Apparently, Elon wants that sooner rather than later.
Tell me they're gonna use it as a staging point for the new station parts and build it remotely from here instead of launching everything up there from fresh after abandoning their foothold
most likely because he wants to launch his own and charge america through the nose
"Let's go to Mars"
Imagine living some place where you have to pay Musk for your air and water.
Put him on it first, then let it drop
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 smellas smart fellas.
The conclusion of such an approach is even broached by Wall-E, disney of all folks.
Elon Musk is also an idiot so why should we be listening to him? He already sees business opportunity for his bullshit SpaceX or some shit.
Lemmy user (me) recommends Elon Musk to be fired into the Sun ASAP
Seconded!
Good thing he doesn't have a conflict of interest... oh wait.
Remember the 4chan post about a crack in the ISS.
Accelerationist pepperidge farms remembers..
I think that's probably the instigating factor. He saw on Twitter that the ISS has a big crack and the government is covering it up, he decided it's true because in his mind trolls on the internet have a higher level of authority than any expert or scientist, and now he has to insist on deorbiting it to prove himself right instead of backing down or listening to any reason to the contrary.
