Urban Astronomer Podcaster Director at Monoceros Digital Consulting AWS gun for hire, Linux/Unix consultant We do managed Fediverse hosting - ask me! He/him (Linux) He\him (Windows) Sometimes I write articles for universetoday.com Lapsed # astronomer , exhausted # dad , small business owner, reader of books, player of # games , # admin of systems, just wants to help. # SouthAfrica
Urban Astronomer Podcaster Director at Monoceros Digital Consulting AWS gun for hire, Linux/Unix consultant We do managed Fediverse hosting - ask me! He/him (Linux) He\him (Windows) Sometimes I write articles for universetoday.com Lapsed # astronomer , exhausted # dad , small business owner, reader of books, player of # games , # admin of systems, just wants to help. # SouthAfrica
So Musk has breezily announced that going to Mars is actually too hard and could take twenty years... (nobody's laughing because you can only laugh at the same joke for so long. But 20 years is ludicrously optimistic)
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So instead he's going to colonize the Moon, which will only take ten years.
And you know, as per usual, he's focusing on literally *ONE* task in a megaproject (the rockets) and battling to even get that done in time.
It's like promising to build a new city within a decade but all you have are brick layers, and you've gotten pretty good at laying bricks and you hire the best bricklayers and whenever somebody asks about roads or city planning or sewage or management or building enough of an economy that people will want to live there and starts businesses there so the people who live there can work there, and water and zoning and governance and so on for hours, and you say "Yes, of course there will be other challenges that need resolving but I'm confident that with my wicked fast brick-laying skills we can build more square meters per hour than our nearest competitor, IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE SAVE HUMANITY Because what if an asteroid hits the other cities.