Re:NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1%
by dartos on Monday February 24, 2025 @08:08AM
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> Projects are a lot harder when trips to the hardware store take months rather than days
How long do you think it takes to plan a trip to the moon?
> I think Starship makes colonies a whole lot more viable
Why?
Re:NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1%
by ericd on Monday February 24, 2025 @08:37AM
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Presumably there’d be regular missions, so there’d be relatively little additional planning for a given moon trip, similar to how there’s a lot less planning/paperwork that goes into a Falcon 9 launch these days than there was for any rocket before Falcon 9.
Starship’s goal is to drop cost of mass to orbit by a couple of orders of magnitude, if they pull that off, it would drop the cost of supporting a colony by quite a bit.
Re:NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1%
by BriggyDwiggs42 on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @12:09PM
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I’m glad you are into the lunar colony. My biggest issue with the mars colony crowd is their disinterest in a much more practical lunar colony for us to cut our teeth on. Overall I feel like a lot of people are into colonies for aesthetic reasons. If it’s gonna 100-200 years before a colony could be self sustaining, then why are we treating multiplanetaryness as some kind of practical solution to current-day issues that appeared within the last century?
I think Starship makes colonies a whole lot more viable, once they iron out the issues, but I generally don't know enough to answer your second question.