So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

I think you really need to drop this topic. It's clear you haven't the first clue what you're talking about.

It's not just things like radiation, technology etc., but how humans can handle a journey. I heard part of an interview about some of the training astronauts go through, it sounded horrific. And to think that Lyle Langley will send a bunch of devotees on the cruise from hell based on some nice CGI just boggles the mind.

You're right. You have nothing to add here. That's precisely why you should drop it.

It is really hard to go to Mars. Brutally difficult, and that's before even attempting to stay there for any length.

Elon Musk doesn't seem to think so, cool, but that's because he doesn't have to figure it out, he gets smart people to work 100 hour weeks to figure out that part. If it wasn't Musk it would be someone else trying.

Likewise, if Musk had never been around we'd still have electric cars, a drilling company, private space flight, internet satellites, likely with someone else doing the pushing, e.g. Bezos

However recently the mask has really fallen off and exposed a guy who isn't really that smart, doesn't have much critical thinking - he just excels at getting very intelligent people to do the legwork for him. Maybe that's all that's required.

Not funny at all

https://www.theonion.com/everything-elon-musk-did-while-visiting-israel-1851051388/slides/5

Yes, and no one is saying to go to Mars at the next launch.

The only people who really believe Starship will be going to Mars any time soon are Elon's band of merry worshipers, never mind talk of colonising Mars and the likes.

Starship is something I have been following for a while, and I would love to see it become a success, despite what I think of Elon himself.

Starship has huge potential and can be a game changer for the space industry if successful, but there is a long way to go, they still haven't even reached orbit successfully with it yet. And then they have to somehow get to a point where it is proven safe enough to be able to land astronauts on the moon and satisfy NASA's criteria for Artemis. This is several years away at best IMO.

I think the best hope for a successful manned mission to Mars will actually be a new rocket technology, maybe Nuclear which NASA are going to start looking into again. I would be hope that I will see it in my lifetime, but unless some new game changing technology is discovered, humans will not be colonising Mars for a very long time IMO.

Here is a good explainer on him. It's 30 minutes long but starts with where his wealth came from and moves on through his various business ventures.

No chance his fanatics will watch that

That’s a good video. I’d forgotten about his ridiculous hyperloop idea (and hyperloops are a terrible idea in general). But his idea would have sold more cars and prevented public mass transit being built, even for a few years, so enriched him. Perfect Musk idea.

Musks low employee standards are hitting him in the pocket in Sweden. Hes refusing to sign a collective bargaining contract with the Tesla mechanics there so they have gone on strike. In Sweden secondary strikes are also allowed so dock workers around the country are refusing to unload tesla cars, cleaning staff are refusing to clean Tesla showrooms and offices, maintenance staff are refusing to do work in showrooms and on chargers and postal workers are refusing to deliver mail to Tesla buildings.

All so Musk can pay his mechanics a below the market rate wage as well as lower pensions and benefits across the board vs other mechanics in Sweden.

Masterful gambit, sir

Well there it is, he's admitting the company is fvcked under his leadership