Youtube hearted comments of rob (@rob338).

  1. "Hey Mars bro, wow, your kid is a big lad." "Yep, he's 7ft2." "Not bad for a ten year old." "The doctors hope he'll get to 8ft but that's assuming his leukaemia treatment is successful."
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  2. Remember lads, next time you disappoint your lady tell her about the Japanese dude who disappointed 27000 women at once. Then hide.
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  3. You could just about land the ISS on top of my local supermarket, and it cost > $100 billion to build and keep running. An O'Neil colony would be thousands of times bigger. Short of the invention of super-robot builders or some such thing the cost of building large space habitats will always be enormous. Much like the cost of private jets or yachts. A lot of the tech bros grew up with Moore's law thinking they can apply that to other systems. Nope.
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  4.  @drumsmoker731  With a colony of a million you'd need some sort of police force. Which means weapons. I'd give it a year before there's all out warfare between various factions.
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  5.  Bagd Biggerd  Find it really strange all his kids are boys and has been reported they were all via IVF. What's the deal there?
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  6. Just think there's probably some 9yr old Disney kid now who'll win an Oscar for playing Musk as a crazy John deLorean type in forty years time.
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  7. It could be the ultimate libertarian experiment. All the Randian geniuses get to their chosen homeworld and pledge a planet of free-market wonder. Then realise there's no one to clean the toilets. Or fix the air filters. And there's no excess energy to support their lifestyles so they all either adopt the same standard of living as everyone else or die; and if they import indentured servants then the servants will outnumber the masters and they're still (to use the technical term) fucked for being anything other than a cog in the colony wheel. Whoops.
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  8. The Martian Sequel: Matt Damon lands in a starship. "Nice to be back. One day there's going to be potatoes growing for miles." Beep, beep, beep. BOOOMMMM The End A Ridley Scott Short
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  9. Real-world vaporware. Kind of depressing.
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  10. Was funny reading that Nasa has to spend a quarter of a million dollars making a radiation-hardened version of an old PowerPC chip to run their mars rover. Are our hypothetical Mars colonists going to get advanced genetic screening to remove those who are likely to develop radiation-induced cancers or other diseases (ocular degeneration for example)? Yep, Musk doesn't think radiation will be a big deal but y'know, its going to be a big deal.
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  11. Yep, has been a thing for many years. My favourite was the Daedalus project, where a group of British scientists/engineers tried to design an actual interstellar probe. Their concept vehicle was super-impressive, but relied on technologies that didn't exist in the 1970s (fusion, proper AI etc.) and sadly still don't exist in a workable manner in 2021, although the designers thought they would. Some details and mock-up pics here - is a glorious piece of retro design madness: https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/Daedalus.html
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  12. Dunno if can post links but here's what the British were up to in the 1930s. Longer than Musks tunnel, went underwater, still working today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoxpzRb5-60
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  13. Had a casual glance at the muskspam group and came across the Penelope Scott Rat song. She's great, heh.
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  14. Remember hearing a podcast with Kim Stanley Robinson a year or so ago. Robinson was saying that colonising/terraforming Mars was going to be a more complex task than he wrote about in his classic Mars Trilogy novels. Considering his books have miraculous technology to push along the narrative - space elevators, DNA fixing life-extension, nuclear rockets - and his did a huge amount of research prior to writing then the dude is probably correct, and Musk wrong.
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  15. The SpaceX technology is pretty cool, but doesn't seem a great deal different to what they were doing with the Delta Clipper in the 90s. Yep, the DC-X was scrapped after a blow-up, but damn it looked the part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IWIv2MKcyg
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  16. The Usbourne Book of the future from 1979 is always good to bring up as it features practically all of Musk's ideas (yes, there's a hyperloop in it). Can't find a copy online (used to be on archive.org), but here's a blog where the author mentions the book, scroll down to the graphic 'Rocket Troops of the Future'... yep, this is close to 100% identical to the concept in the video. https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2015/12/Ithacus_and_SUSTAIN.html Note the blog itself is from 2015 and goes into where the original idea came from that inspired the futurist art, and the whole sub-orbital military transporters concept. http://www.astronautix.com/i/ithacus.html Plus rocket troops - very cool. 😁
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  17. His 'How do you do, fellow kids?' online personality is cringeworthy. He's not remotely funny and doesn't seem to understand that he isn't Ryan Reynolds and can't do jokes on Twitter. Come to think of it, why does he spend so much time on there posting nonsense? Does he really think he's going to inspire a whole generation of teenagers to grow up with no taste in comedy?
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  18. 1991 Equinox documentary on spacesuits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcVUXhefYvc Go to 46 minutes and onwards where they talk about a 'modern version of the skin suit' using bio-engineering.
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