The Boring Company’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of Musk’s promises to build superfast mass-transit “hyperloops.” Workers say its tunnels are packed with chemical sludge.
The [tunnel’s] accelerants cure the grout that seals the tunnel’s concrete supports, helping the grout set properly and protecting the work against cracks and other deterioration. They also seriously burn exposed human skin. At the Encore dig site, such burns became almost routine, workers there told Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An investigation by the state OSHA, which Bloomberg Businessweek has obtained via a freedom of information request, describes workers being scarred permanently on their arms and legs. According to the investigation, at least one employee took a direct hit to the face. In an interview with Businessweek, one of the tunnel workers recalls the feeling of exposure to the chemicals: “You’d be like, ‘Why am I on fire?’”
Neurolink was an existing company, it’s founder quit in shame after they faked/stole existing research. His own professor, the leading expert in the field, declared it all bunk with the metaphor “Elon Musk couldn’t find a brain of he tried”.
He thinks he knows how to build a colony on Mars better than anyone. He hasn’t considered that maybe there are good reasons why it hasn’t been done yet. His first colony will be a death trap.
That’s a feature, not a bug. His family got rich with mines in south africa, exploiting the locals. For getting more rich by mining mars you’ll have to bring your own locals to exploit, and there’s no need to make it to comfortable for them.
He’s planning it mostly as a one-way trip, sort of a “live the rest of your life taming the wilderness” pitch. It isn’t all that different from the colonizing that went on Earth, and even the casualties might not be much higher.
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You have to look at the bigger picture: Musk’s “I know how to build a colony on Mars better than anyone!”
That requires:
indentured labourvolunteers willing to work for the privilege (tons of applicants already)There are some other details missing, and maybe there are other projects I’m not aware of, but the general plan is pretty clear.
How would people on Mars even claim their rights? I never heard a country recognize their own jurisdiction on Mars.
If Musk enslaves these people, not return them to earth, etc., how can they stop that from Mars?
A rocket is just a truck. A fleet of trucks don’t build or make possible whatever we dream them to carry.
A giant truck doesn’t meet all demands. Starlink is just the Internet and does not count towards the existing, now saturated “market”.
https://youtu.be/Om90htezXLk?si=cPV3vVKVIlkKB5T1
https://youtu.be/kM0gD4-zTT8?si=t1-QPOKuQ2CSzRw5
https://youtu.be/FNt_SyJjNGw?si=SnpUnW_CZK93ZBl1 (Parts 1 & 2, etc are also sanity.)
Neurolink was an existing company, it’s founder quit in shame after they faked/stole existing research. His own professor, the leading expert in the field, declared it all bunk with the metaphor “Elon Musk couldn’t find a brain of he tried”.
https://youtu.be/p8NiM_p8n5A?si=bCtDVkLL546je8rV
Musk is a sociopath hijacking reality so real issues are ignored.
Imagine the roaming costs on Mars… one liners is all most will be able to aff [message too long]
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Good point, although I think they’re planning something nuclear powered, like for the Moon.
He thinks he knows how to build a colony on Mars better than anyone. He hasn’t considered that maybe there are good reasons why it hasn’t been done yet. His first colony will be a death trap.
That’s a feature, not a bug. His family got rich with mines in south africa, exploiting the locals. For getting more rich by mining mars you’ll have to bring your own locals to exploit, and there’s no need to make it to comfortable for them.
If he’s living in it as well, it could just as easily become a death trap for him.
He’s planning it mostly as a one-way trip, sort of a “live the rest of your life taming the wilderness” pitch. It isn’t all that different from the colonizing that went on Earth, and even the casualties might not be much higher.