SpaceX Wants To Go To Mars — and Has a Plan To Get There

mknewman writes with an article at NASA SpaceFlight which lays out the details of a plan from SpaceX to send a craft to Mars, using an in-development engine ("Raptor") along with the company's Super Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle. "Additionally, Mr. Musk also introduced the mysterious MCT project, which he later revealed to be an acronym for Mars Colonial Transport. This system would be capable of transporting 100 colonists at a time to Mars, and would be fully reusable. Article is technically dense but he does seem to follow through on his promises!" This is an endeavor that's been on Elon Musk's mind for a while.

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Sadly, Elon Musk is proof that

[Nutria]

even very smart, very successful, technologically savvy people have impossible delusions (in this case that humans can live for long periods beyond everything that we take for granted on Earth).

Re:Sadly, Elon Musk is proof that

[Anonymous Coward]

Long term? There were no humans a million years ago, and there won't be any a million years from now. Evolution is still happening, and our population is increasing by 20000 people a day. Given that only 24 people in history ever went further than Low Earth Orbit, and even then it was for a high-tech camping weekend that took 10% of the GDP of the USA, it is utterly delusional to talk about long term anything for people in space.

And talking about "this rock" is just so off-your-rocker completely bonkers it's sad.

"Delusion" doesn't even begin to touch the surface of the mental illnesses that Space Nutters have.

Musk can be like Howard Hughes, you know. Hughes also did many things but ended up a 90 pound filthy wreck surrounded by bottles of his own urine. If Musk keeps clinging to the delusions of the space propaganda of his youth, he might end up like that as well.