Re:Science upside for Starship
by whatshisface on Monday November 22, 2021 @11:55AM
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The technology to make mars psychologically livable may simply be having some people grow up there.
Re:Science upside for Starship
by maxerickson on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:02PM
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The comment I replied to was about people with wealth and power "escaping" there.
Re:Science upside for Starship
by tsimionescu on Monday November 22, 2021 @10:56AM
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No no, didn't you read the article? With Starship we could launch 12 * 100,000 30m wide light sails and heat up Mars!
Such a ridiculous idea puts the rest of the article in a very questionable light for me.
It is a fact that we could launch light sails, and even heat up Mars a bit. The idea might be silly, but at least it is thinking big. Some other big idea will be better, including several of those listed after the light-sails bit.
The earth-sized radio telescope made out of Starlink transceivers is an obvious winner. Total coverage ground radar using the transceiver antenna is another.
If we did, it would still work better to just use it here on some isolated land.