• Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    Putting a million people in space would require ten of thousand of launches if they were Boeing 737s carrying the people.

    Housing a million people in space would require technology that won’t exist in 20 years let alone in time to have it built in 20 years.

    This kind of shit is just so fucking stupid.

    It takes them 2 years to build an Amazon warehouse in fucking Michigan. We’re supposed to believe they’re going to build space stations to support a million people in 20 years?

    Who is this stupid? Who believes this shit?

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      11 hours ago

      Honestly it will be lucky if we have anyone permanently inhabiting the moon in 20 years. The Artemis program is our best bet and frankly that’s a pipe dream.

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    Oh is he going to build a space elevator or something?

    Even if we had cheap safe reliable rocket launchers (Which I think SpaceX is fairly adequately demonstrated that we do not have) millions of people wouldn’t be living on the moon in 20 years. It took decades after the invention of the jetliner before millions of people were doing transatlantic flights, and as unpleasant as Florida can be, it’s a lot more survivable than the moon (probably).

    These idiots say so much crap, why are we reporting on it?

  • selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works
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    If that guys in charge, I would assume those millions are being forced to work in ‘Mars in Total Recall’ conditions. Basically slave labor in abhorrent conditions with food/air being withheld when you don’t slave away hard enough.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    I don’t think we have the capacity to launch a million people into orbit in 20 years, let alone all the stuff they need. I mean, 1 million people weigh about 150 million pounds, and that’s just meat and bones. .

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    11 hours ago

    I don’t care if any people live in space in 20 years but I would like to launch Bezos, Musk and a few others there.

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    And what the heck are people going to do in space? How will they even get their Amazon packages?

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    19 hours ago

    How has such an idiot talker been able to accumulate such indecent amount of resources?

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    23 hours ago

    Jeffy watches too much science fiction where at some point in history, massive rockets to space became free and people stopped breathing oxygen.

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    1 day ago

    Man, I’m SO glad newspapers don’t tell the whole world whenever I say something stupid. That would be really embarrassing.

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    1 day ago

    when will we just tell these people to shut the fuck up and that we don’t care what they think? I’ve never heard a tech billionaire say anything remotely smart for decades now.