We'll be confined to this planet until it's gone no matter what.
They still haven't even developed the technology needed to shield human beings from the radiation we'd be exposed to in the interplanetary medium, let alone interstellar space. Elon's Mars dream is a fantasy until that problem is solved: he'd die screaming from a fatal dose of neutron radiation before he ever got there.
The radiation problem can probably be licked somehow but the idea of an interplanetary/interstellar empire is a fundamentally materialist, utopian fantasy and it's not going to happen to any significant degree. Exhibit A: the behavior of materialist utopians like Elon.
Space is. Earth orbit is much less big than space. It's still big, but when a satellite breaks up there are a lot of pieces and they are all moving very fast. With specific orbits being desirable for certain tasks. For anything communicating with the ground, everyone wants to be in LEO for less latency which has the least space because geometry.
As reference, there's only about 15k satellites active right now.
Some days, I'm convinced Elon's end goal is to cause Kessler syndrome so we keep our retardation isolated to one rock.
We'll be confined to this planet until it's gone no matter what.
They still haven't even developed the technology needed to shield human beings from the radiation we'd be exposed to in the interplanetary medium, let alone interstellar space. Elon's Mars dream is a fantasy until that problem is solved: he'd die screaming from a fatal dose of neutron radiation before he ever got there.
He’s talking about sending a million tons of stuff to mars. Surely that’s more than the shielding we get currently
The radiation problem can probably be licked somehow but the idea of an interplanetary/interstellar empire is a fundamentally materialist, utopian fantasy and it's not going to happen to any significant degree. Exhibit A: the behavior of materialist utopians like Elon.
Just remember, space is realllllllllly big.
Space is. Earth orbit is much less big than space. It's still big, but when a satellite breaks up there are a lot of pieces and they are all moving very fast. With specific orbits being desirable for certain tasks. For anything communicating with the ground, everyone wants to be in LEO for less latency which has the least space because geometry.
As reference, there's only about 15k satellites active right now.