• hector@lemmy.today
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          I think Mars would be fun, I would even set him up, obviously not alone that would be cruel, with Bezos, that English asshole with the space comany too at a minimum. But Thiel and Yarvin too for sure, all the silicon valley billionaire parasites. Send them out to Mars with a legitimate attempt at landing and eking a living on Mars.

          Hook them up with livestreaming capabilities so they could share their insights on the way, then let them try (and fail because not a fucking chance,) all on television, pay per view even for the good parts.

          It would make great television, talk about reality tv. In fact, every year, or whatever, we should lottery the super rich, grab some, and shoot them into space to explore or colonize some planet or moon. With their livestream, enough supplies, all of that. It would do wonders for tax compliance.

          • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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            22 minutes ago

            When you put that way, it would be funny to watch a bunch of billionaries fail horribly because of their delusions of being the only ones able to build civilization.

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          Mars knows what to do with him. -276 degree nights (as I recall, it’s cold,) highs of 60 f in the summer on the real scorchers. Oh yeah, the atmosphere is like 1/100 of ours, and lacking in oxygen. No magnetic shield, it’s a dead planet, scorched by solar radiation, no ozone layer either, the sun strips molecules of air into base elements without that magnetic shield caused by the molten core of a planet with a solid crust spinning around it, just as a glass of water turned in a circle will see the water stationary while the glass moves.

          His bullshit on mars has always been a confidence game, playing on the aspirations and dreams of those that don’t know he’s full of shit, and those also playing those people going along with him.

          I got a violation from reddit once, and abandoned that account because of that 3 day ban, for suggesting Musk should be aboard one of his launches, for advocating violence, I guess it is logical to presume anyone on one of his rockets will die given their track record to be fair.

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            Yeah, but like, what did Mars do to deserve having Musk touch it? What if humans do eventually want to colonize it, it will be contaminated and 100% scum and no one wants that.