Elon
Musk's speculation about colonizing Mars seem a little narrow-minded.
He really ought to look beyond creating another big gassy rocket to
launch a million people to Mars. Regardless of how people arrived,
they could probably copulate and raise little Martians for a fraction
of the cost of sending a million adults from Earth.
Looking
beyond the advantages natural-born Martians would have such as being
eligible to run for President of Mars, Elon Musk seems to have
overlooked his own field of experience for space transportation that
would use electro-magnetic propulsion along a straight track on the
Moon to accelerate objects to very high velocity toward some sort of
orbiting, recycling Earth-Mars ferry as Buzz Aldrin mentioned
numerous times. image credit: N.A.S.A.
Developing
electro-magnetic accelerators such as were made in the Star Wars
program and later for navy canon perhaps on Earth with a specialized
pointy heat shielded projectile moving along a fifty-mile track to
orbital escape velocity would be one way to get cargo into orbit
rapidly. Creating a network of electro-magnetic accelerators on the
moon and around the solar system would provide the adaptability
needed to let people discover niches in livable places without
requiring a central bureaucratic or even corporate apparatus to plan
for everyone involved with some sort of theory.
If
one were to play a chess game against a gm entirely from opening book
plans it is possible the unexpected might arise and the game is
busted. Establishing an adaptable, multi-use technology to open the
entire solar system to low-cost space travel and human habitat
constructions should be Elon Musk's effort.
