Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by exBarrelSpoiler on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:44PM (#12766545)

Robert Zubrin has been planning for Martian colonization for decades. He's like the Kurzweil for the movement, his Mars Society has been on a quixotic quest. Hopefully SpaceX hires him on as a consultant.

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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by 100ideas on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:40PM (#12766791)

I would hire Kim Stanley Robinson first :)

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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by T-A on Saturday October 22, 2016 @01:41PM (#12769659)

For Mars? I doubt it: "It’s important to say that the idea of Mars as a lifeboat is wrong, in both a practical and a moral sense." ... "My feeling now is that faced with the extreme expense, technical challenge, and danger of going to Mars, interest is going to shift to the moon as a destination that can actually be reached and occupied during some of our lifetimes."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/why-elon-m...

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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by snrplfth on Saturday October 22, 2016 @07:00PM (#12770960)

Ah, Kim Stanley Robinson. Smart guy. If only he understood any economics, at all.

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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by 100ideas on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:12AM (#12794772)

Hydrazine is the new gold standard.

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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by exBarrelSpoiler on Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:23AM (#12767177)

Hire both!

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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by novalis78 on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:58PM (#12766617)

Absolutely. An even closer cooperation between the Mars Society and Spacex would be great. I am pretty sure though his critique will be studied quite closely by Spacex.

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