We earthlings must reject misleading prophesies such as the Malthusian fear that we are running out of resources on our planet. Resources abound off-Earth in space. Humanity's potential for growth is unlimited. Failure to terraform and colonize Mars would constitute a failure to live up to our...
Here are some reasons why we shouldn’t colonize Mars, at least at our current technological level.Extreme Environmental Conditions: Mars presents significant challenges for colonization due to its harsh environment, including extremely low temperatures, high radiation levels, and a thin atmosphere that...
It seemed that the pinpricks of light on the edge of the sphere weren’t what we thought they were—they were other suns like ours. And they were out there floating just like our sun—which meanswe weren’t inside of a sphere at all. Not only was our planet not the center of thin...
But if the first ocean animal to touch dry land simply lay there for a minute before being washed back into the ocean, it would not qualify as a giant leap for life, and the moon landing shouldn’t either. It’s only when certain mutated fish began to live on land in a sustainable ...
Alex KuzoianJessica Orwig
What we have is a way to go to Mars for an astronomical amount of money. And that’s no way to colonize Mars. To Musk, what’s missing is a way to go to Mars affordably. He calls the United States “a nation of explorers” and “the spirit of human exploration distilled,” and ...
Musk also wants to redefine what it means to be an astronaut, explaining that a person shouldn’t have tobean astronaut to fly in space. His vision has ordinary people hopping on top of a SpaceX rocket and going to space with relatively little training or skills—the same way we fly in...
I’ll let Elon tell you about the other himself, in this one-minute clip from my first discussion with him in the SpaceX cafeteria (the clip is here if the player doesn’t show up):5 In this post, we’ve talked mostly about the first, very long-term reason to colonize Mars—...
We were taught all kinds of things by our parents and teachers—what’s right and wrong, what’s safe and dangerous, the kind of person you should and shouldn’t be. But the idea was: I’m an adult so I know much more about this than you, it’s not up for debate, don’t argu...