Comments by "r baxter" (@rbaxter286) on "Why Musk Is Wrong About Mars" video.

  1. Note the pronoun "YOU"?!
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  2. Most of the 'solutions' are just postponing them until 'we' are dead, but lived a good live off The Poor.
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  3. There is ABSOLUTELY NO INFRASTRUCTURE ON MARS to support the technically demanding and advanced artificial environment that is needed TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DYING IN MINUTES OF TOUCHDOWN! And yet, we can't even get clean water to all people on Earth, yet! Examples: A diffusion unit breaks and immolates several near it, rendering it impossible to support 500 of the people currently living there. Where do you 'buy' one? You can't take huge inventories there and store them SUCCESSFULLY AND SAFELY for possible emergencies! You can't even do so on Earth, like keeping adequate spares that are compatible with your equipment in a normal industrial setting where there are hundreds of facilities around Earth that may need fixes or replacement. The equivalent of a 'sea chest' ruptures on a Mars module, rendering it uninhabitable and unable to support operations. How do you fix it when this was all built ON EARTH IN HUGELY FAVORABLE MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS! The population starts dying of unforeseen feed back between excessive radiation exposure, food 'manufactured' on Mars, and lack of drugs. A Supply ship crashes on the main command and control area and fries huge amounts of information and electronic command and control systems, along with making HUGE breaches in the environmental containment need TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DYING IMMEDIATELY! Some psycho who BOUGHT his way to Mars breaks down because Daddy/Mommy can't buy him a ride back to Earth, so he goes around sabotaging the colony or outright destroying airlocks because he's high up the food chain because of Daddy's/Mommy's money and has the means and clearances. Space Karen was too cheap and crooked to do adequate risk assessment on merely his StarShip base, opting instead to just keep blowing things up until he succeeds with some extra duct tape and bailing wire. He is TOO CHEAP TO EVEN HAVE AN ABORT RESCUE SYSTEM ON HIS STARSHIP TO POSSIBLY SAVE A CREW OR HUGE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS ON A LAUNCH FAILURE; HIS STARSHIP IS NOT MAN-RATED!!! Colonizing Mars is a pipe dream, and I mean a CRACK PIPE DREAM! Mars will NEVER be able to support itself, so it is NOT some bolt hole for Earth on Mars, like New Zealand and the like are for crooks on Earth. When Columbus had ship problems in the New World, THERE WERE STILL TREES, NOT TO MENTION OXYGEN, TO REPAIR HIS SHIPS TO GET BACK TO THE OLD WORLD. That LAST FACT is the stake in the heart of this SCAM/CON JOB/PONZI SCHEME!! If Life dies on Earth, IT WILL ALSO GET SNUFFED OUT ON MARS IN JUST ANOTHER FEW MONTHS..., and there will be no 'cavemen or intelligent apes' left on Mars to populate The Planet of the Apes fantasy world, either. That is the ADULT FACT that con men like Space Karen ignore on their way to fraudulently stealing money from the government and investors RIGHT HERE AND NOW! You know FRAUDULENTLY LIKE HE USED HIS SCAM HYPERLOOP TO RUIN THE CHANCE OF CALIFORNIA GETTING HIGH SPEED RAIL THAT WOULD OBSOLETE HIS STILL-NOT-CARBON-NEUTRAL EVS AND THEIR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES!!!! The Common Sense Skeptic and Thunderf00t have debunked this on their channels in FUNDAMENTAL TERMS years ago, and nothing has changed since then. Oh, and I've worked in and supported high-tech, hazardous material and atmosphere environments for decades. This is all from personal experience with even 'last-decades-tech', much less the bleeding edge tech Space Karen pretends exists. We can't even keep a space station habitable for a handful of tenants without huge costs and decaying orbital infrastructure. Now add a couple decimal points to that population and to the cycle times of emergency response. People with experience in such industries know Musk is a crook and his continual NON-DELIVERY ON HIS PROMISES AND 'PROJECTS' IS PROOF.
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  4. Really, we've had problems reconciling QM and Relativity throughout human history? Problems getting water to hundreds of millions of people in Africa when the solution is not that hard? Problems doing 3 nm die sizes on IC throughout human history? Problems finding ways to reverse the UTTER FAIL of past human history of recklessly burning coal and not thinking it would change the climate? Problems jailing crooked scam artists ..., well, maybe we have some problems the same, but solving this one would render the problem of Scam Artist Space Karen less pressing. Just another Fanboi defending the Big Lie.
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