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But because our 17year old daughter is hot
This is probably why I didn't get the freelance job to write the total hit piece, I moved my family from California to Austin, Texas, and regretted it. Here are 10 key points every person should consider before relocating.LOL. When I saw that piece, that was exactly the thought that crossed my mind: "CA is acknowledging the threat and fighting it with PR work"
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That just opened chrome. I forgot I had chrome.
Underground yes, surface no. You'd need to burn rocks like no tomorrow to create an atmosphere and keep it from being swept away by the sun's radiation; there's no way to increase Mars' weak magnetic field with anything reasonably down the pike.
We just have to figure out how to bring the hydrogen and oxygen over from Jupiter.
Much more feasible than you’d think! But we don’t need Jupiter for that. There are millions of comets just packed with water ice in the Kuiper Belt which rings our solar system out beyond Jupiter. Attach a couple rockets to some of these bad boys and get them moving towards the Red Planet. When they hit it will be pretty fucking devastating, but nobody lives on Mars so whatever! And the impacts will release hundreds of kilotons of energy which will melt those ice balls to water vapor which will spread across the planet increasing its atmosphere (which is really thin and mostly CO2) and giving the planet some weather.
The water vapor would just end up in space,
Mars does have gravity! Sure it’s like a third of Earth, but it’s enough to retain its own weak atmosphere. Adding to that should be possible. And yes it would be like nuking the planet repeatedly with non radioactive water. Should work tho right?
In “Robinson Crusoe on Mars” there was water, and rocks had air or O2 in them.
Oh well, maybe Mars ain’t gonna have an ocean.
In “Robinson Crusoe on Mars” there was water, and rocks had air or O2 in them.
Anyone thinking of going to Mars should
... think of it as committing to basically living in a can for many-many years. Thanks but no thanks.
The solar winds would rip any substantial atmosphere off without a magnetic field shield, just not enough mass and internal convection going on.
The issue is far more lack of gravity to hold an atmosphere that lack of a magnetic field ripping it away. Venus has no magnetic field, and has quite a thick atmosphere despite being much closer to the sun and subject to much higher solar winds.
We should move Venus out of its orbit a bit farther from the sun to make it more habitable. It's possible.
The 'starship' just blew up (again).
The 'starship' just blew up (again).
This would require a space ship to be assembled in Earth orbit that could support a two year mission to an asteroid and back.
The 'starship' just blew up (again).
One mission should be able to send one million metric tons back to Earth, resulting in a gross of 1 TRILLION DOLLARS.
1) It Was NOT An All Inclusive Package
For a family of 4, we had to fork over $2 million for this trip. After selling our artificially high-priced Silicon Valley shack, cashed out our 401ks and IRAs, sold off all our stock options/RSUs and getting a $400k grant from the Biden Administration from money that was stolen from Red State idiots-who-think-their-vote-actually-counts-in-PRI-America, we barely got that plus another $100k left over.
But that wasn't enough! Because that $2 million only covers transportation and habitat in Musk Eisley (more on that below), everything else was a la carte. Food, oxygen, water, flight to the spaceport, you name it, we got nickled & dimed. In fact, by the time we reached Mars...before we even stepped out of the fuckin' lander, we were in hock to the tune of $300k to Musk Indentured Services, Martian LLC.
But because our 17year old daughter is hot, we were able to whore her out to colonial leaders to cut that down to $75k. But according to that contract, Chelsea will be servicing the Martian Elite for the next 10 years. Probably 20 given how her looks mutate away (more on that below also).
Suffice it to say, none of this shit was in our contract.
2) Musk Eisley Was Built W/O Radiation In Mind
There's no magnetic field generated by Mars and no ozone layer in the atmosphere, so deadly UV and cosmic radiation just pounds the surface like the Martian Elite routinely do Chelsea. NASA and other peer-reviewed science long determined that colonists would need at least 6 to 8 feet of Martian soil covering their habs in order to avoid the worst of it. But does Musk do 'science'? Fuck no. He built Musk Eisley all on the surface, for the most part.
I am not kidding. This is Musk Eisley:
And our unit was on the top floor of a 10 story building of the 'glass tower design'.
Suffice it to say, this did not bode well. Ever see The Hills Have Eyes? Well, that's our family.
Chelsea's looks didn't even last 5 years:
(Chelsea on an exchange student program to Iceland one year before we left earth)
(Chelsea after being on Mars 4 years, 7 months)
3) Nothing BUT Public Land
Turns out we don't even have property rights! Not according to the Outer Space Treaty of 1969. Musk promised us that his lawyers were going to secure a carve out for our colony, but nothing ever came from that.
4) Nowhere To Go
Oh, there's PLENTY of empty space for you to check out. But there are no snowy mountains, no raging rivers, and no Starbucks! Things don't change much in a huge seventy-hour-drive radius with the Rover. Since we love the outdoors — exploring, climbing, rafting — Mars was not our cup of tea.
5) Dishonesty
As noted in 1 in the above, we were lied to! And there is no Nanny State to save us, either! All we can do is bitch in this bupkiss article and hope it gets posted on Patrick.net.
God forbid I take any responsibility for doing any due diligence on my part.
6) I Ran Out Of Shit To Say
This is probably why I didn't get the freelance job to write the total hit piece, I moved my family from California to Austin, Texas, and regretted it. Here are 10 key points every person should consider before relocating.