Mars One

[zagibu]

Yeah, let's invest more into technology that can, when things go wrong, lay waste to the countryside for miles. Especially when there are cheaper and less dangerous alternatives around.

[Kafein]

Yeah, let's invest more into technology that can, when things go wrong, lay waste to the countryside for miles. Especially when there are cheaper and less dangerous alternatives around.

Wait what

[Son Of Odin]

you got lucky, I didn't knew the numbers and supposed the Sun was heavier than that.

Well to put it in perspective 99,9% of the mass in our solar system is in the Sun . So I guess couple thousand tons of nuclear waste isn't going to do much to it. Then again I'm not really sure what kind of reactions that waste would create there.

[Largg]

Thing about flinging waste stuff at sun is it makes absolutely no sense. If you throw a ball on earth orbit (space) towards the sun it will obviously not fly there. The ball is on trajectory around earth that will only be slightly altered from yours. To get stuff collide at sun would need immense amounts of power to change the trajectory needed. Generally it is not feasible either to send waste into space unless you're already on orbit where you're comfortable dumping it.

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[Leshma]

maybe eventually shooting tons of radioactive waste into the sun could become economically viable, if we manage to create a space elevator or some other way of putting stuff in orbit that doesn't require such a huge fuel and technical investment.

Space elevator is the safe way to do that. If we fill a huge rocket with nuclear waste, there's risk of a disaster similar to what happened to SS Challenger and if that happens, we are screwed.

[zagibu]

Space elevator would cause uproar in the religious world: People trying to ascend into heaven without believing in GOD.

[Armpit_Sweat]

What do you think of it? Is it gonna happen? Or just Bullshit? Would you fly one-way to Mars?

I think it's astounding that they are actually planing this and seem to be serious about it. And it feels strange they wanna finance it by making a Mars-like Big Brother out of it, but it could actually work this way.


Oh, and when I watch their own commercial I think it could perfectly be some intro to a bad sci-fi horror splatter. Crew lands on Mars, one guy goes crazy like Jack Torrance or some Mars ghosts appear.

As I am getting older, I lose excitement about technology I would much rather see the disappearance of religion and the daily massacres around the world. Our kids will be doing tourist trips to space, and some few billion humans will be living like animals under open sky. Not that I really give a single shit about anyone starving, but it devalues all the "technological wonders" in a way. Mars-Shmars. I bet they will pray to Jebus after a safe landing, or some other deity, so cynical

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[The_Bloody_Nine]

As I am getting older, I lose excitement about technology I would much rather see the disappearance of religion and the daily massacres around the world. Our kids will be doing tourist trips to space, and some few billion humans will be living like animals under open sky. Not that I really give a single shit about anyone starving, but it devalues all the "technological wonders" in a way. Mars-Shmars. I bet they will pray to Jebus after a safe landing, or some other deity, so cynical

mh, I am not sure I understand the connections you draw. You think that technological advancement should go hand in hand with the disappearance of religion and if that's not the case technology looses it's value? And the massacres are happening because of religion?

[Henry_Broodsonson]

  Still can't solve it then...

[Henry_Broodsonson]

[Berserkadin]

Is there any profit to be made for this? Our capitalistic system doesn't really approve of investing money into something that won't earn you any money.

[Henry_Broodsonson]

People don't want money. They want meaning.

[Kafein]

Is there any profit to be made for this? Our capitalistic system doesn't really approve of investing money into something that won't earn you any money.

That's false and you know it.

[Zlisch_The_Butcher]

Is there any profit to be made for this? Our capitalistic system doesn't really approve of investing money into something that won't earn you any money.

commies gonna commie.

[Torben]

imagine the ping if you wanna play crpg o0