{"id":131904,"date":"2024-11-30T22:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131904"},"modified":"2024-11-30T22:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T15:02:29","slug":"elon-musks-plans-for-a-city-on-mars-will-likely-end-in-horrifying-mass-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131904","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Plans for a City on Mars Will Likely End in Horrifying Mass Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"incArticle\">\n<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-bioengineer-new-species-mars\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">make humanity interplanetary<\/a> by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of his space company&#8217;s gigantic Starship rocket, the mercurial entrepreneur wants to ensure the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1860322925783445956\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">long-term survival of consciousness<\/a>&#8221; by ferrying a million settlers to permanent residency on the Red Planet <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-million-people-mars-2050\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">by 2050<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But his lofty plans for a highly risky space colony over 100 million miles away from home could be doomed from the start.<\/p>\n<p>As biologist and author Kelly Weinersmith and her husband, cartoon artist Zach Weinersmith, detail in their painstakingly researched 2023 book &#8220;A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?&#8221; the planet is a terrible choice for a settlement.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they predict, the effort could rapidly devolve into a drawn-out and extremely expensive humanitarian disaster of epic proportions.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/22\/science\/mars-human-settlement-elon-musk\/index.html\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">interview with <em>CNN<\/em><\/a>, the pair elaborated on their newfound skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more we got into it \u2014 by year two out of the four-year research process, we were like, OK, there\u2019s a lot of stuff we don\u2019t know that we still need to figure out,&#8221; Kelly told the broadcaster. &#8220;And if we do this soon, it could be an ethical catastrophe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No way that you could scale up to a million people on Mars without something catastrophic happening,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;either in terms of it turns out we can\u2019t have babies up there, and moms and babies are dying or getting cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to do this, it\u2019s got to be the slow work of generations to build up to a point where we could be self-sustaining on Mars,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>In the short-term, however, the Red Planet could prove a great place for &#8220;lots of research,&#8221; according to Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe in our lifetime, we\u2019ll see people land on Mars, do some exploration and come home, that could happen, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to have babies on Mars,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Reproduction in particular <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/startup-space-babies\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">could be a major problem<\/a> due to the planet&#8217;s immense amount of space radiation exposure. The effects of microgravity in space \u2014 or just 38 percent of Earth&#8217;s gravity on the surface of Mars \u2014 could also be a major complicating factor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were just surprised by how many problems we thought we had a handle on,&#8221; Kelly told <em>CNN<\/em>. &#8220;But it turns out that we have very little relevant data for how adults will do, let alone how having babies would work out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The authors&#8217; concerns closely echo other experts who have criticized Musk&#8217;s plans for colonizing Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond political, technological, and ethical questions, it could end up being prohibitively expensive, even for the richest man in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the existential threats we&#8217;re facing back on Earth, like an environmental crisis that&#8217;s being <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/spacex-environment-toxic-wastewater\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">actively worsened<\/a> by Musk&#8217;s many businesses.<\/p>\n<p>During a March event, former president Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/obama-slams-plan-escape-earth-colonizing-mars\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">slammed the plans<\/a> of Silicon Valley &#8220;tycoons, many of whom are building spaceships&#8221; that could get humans to Mars,&#8221; as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/protect-earth-instead-of-colonising-mars-obama-says-1df83940\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">quoted by <em>Agence France-Presse<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But when I hear some of the people talk about the plan to colonize Mars because the Earth environment may become so degraded that it becomes unliveable, I look at them like, what are you talking about?&#8221; he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even after a nuclear war, Earth would be more liveable than Mars, even if we didn&#8217;t do anything about [climate change] it would still have oxygen \u2014 as far as we can tell, Mars does not,&#8221;\u00a0 Obama added.<\/p>\n<p>In short, is Mars really the best place to call our next home away from home?<\/p>\n<p>To Musk, it&#8217;s about the &#8220;excitement and adventure,&#8221; as he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/08\/tech\/spacex-mars-profit-scn\/index.html\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">said during a virtual Mars conference<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>And those willing to turn a blind eye to his <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-black-students-low-iqs\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">deeply twisted worldview<\/a> will have to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-nuclear-armageddon\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">literally put their lives on the line<\/a> to see his vision for a Mars colony through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not for the faint of heart,&#8221; he added at the time. &#8220;Good chance you\u2019ll die. 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