• sircac@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

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

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    8 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.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    11 hours 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.

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    15 hours ago

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

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Nope

    Not happening, and not even close.

    We still don’t have a first moon base, and no idea how to even build one that’ll last.

    First you’ll need a proof of concept base, it’ll take you a good decade to get that done

    Then, millions? Any idea how many tickets that is?

    The richer, the dumber

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      3 hours ago

      Yea, maybe they should show we can grow food and mone water ice on a large enough scale first. But, millions even in 50 years seems unlikley given the pace things have gone.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      Ketamine is a great drug.

      But Musk’s disciples believe we will one day be walking around on planets and moons with no air, and temperatures 100x more extreme than parts of earth no one can live in.

      These are simple people, the common clay of the new space…

      …you know, morons.

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      11 hours ago

      And on top of all this does he think we just send astronauts up to space to live in the ISS for extended periods of time all willy nilly? Or hell just sending people to the moon, that was just “ok, you’re going to to the moon tomorrow, pack your bags” no. It takes months if not years of training to get someone used to living in zero g for extended periods of time. Us silly meatbags need something called gravity to live. You can’t just shoot someone out into space and say “have at it”. So whose going to train these millions of people? There’s no artificial gravity spinny things on ships to do that. there’s hardly any on the moon.

      And then what if these people want to go back to Earth for a visit? it wouldn’t work. Look at Astronauts who have been on the ISS for an extended period of time when they come back. They can’t walk, they look like they’re going to pass out. So everytime these millions of people decide to return for a visit they also have to spend time getting help to get used to being on Earth again? no way, that’s not happening. You would literally have to set up some sort of hospitals specifically for this and then train and hire a massive amount of people who deal only with getting people used to dealing with gravity again. 2045? be real jeffy boy.

      I mean again the people who are floating around in space right now are specifically selected and are in peak physical condition. The ONLY way it would maybe work is if we managed to develop a form of artifical gravity and right now that’s science fiction. OR you set up a colony on Mars and right now that’s a one way trip. and I’ve seen/read/played a lot of media where one way mars colony trips never work out well in the long run.

      Plus there’s a massive Dragon on Mars…

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Right? Anyone else his age says that shit people say Okay Grandpa, let’s get you off to bed.

        • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
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          1 day ago

          You should buy ALL of the ice cream at a McDonald’s and just eat ice cream until you pass out in a pile of regurgitated ice cream various types of ice cream in various stages of thawing, and of course two dozen copies of your manifesto on the evils of eating pork. Make sure it’s at least a couple hundred pages long and then make a hard pivot with no explanation like 20 pages from the end to blaming the people of the Sentinel Islands for all of the world’s problems, and then somehow tie it back into the pork thing.

        • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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          I’m cool with the LLM doing the manifesto. But surely you know one oligarch or pedo that deserves the Luigi treatment. Hell maybe get yourself a two for one special. I know of a very wealthy, very powerful pedo thats all over the news. Surely you can “scope” one out.

  • BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The largest spaceship today is the falcon heavy with a payload of just over 140k lbs. To make the math easy let’s say the falcon can lift 1000 people into space at a time.

    If “millions of people” means 2 million people then we would need to launch 1000 people into space twice per week for 20 years. So 8 fully loaded falcon heavys per month for 240 months straight.

    So… No. We will not have millions of people in space any time soon.

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        12 hours ago

        Just count every sperm cell a man has as a future person, since eggs seem to almost count as people already.