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From the mission to Mars, to what
it would be like to have it filled with people, join me as we talk about the
Elon Musk Mars City By 2050!
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Elon Musk is a man on a mission,
and that mission is to get humanity not just to Mars, but to get them to Mars
in this decade. This is why he built his own space organization in SpaceX, to
do what NASA (at the time) couldn't do, inspire the need to be in space again.
And he has succeeded, and now, SpaceX is not only one of the leading places in
all space travel designs and plans, but they are indeed looking to be the group
to send a person to Mars. But the plans go beyond that, he doesn't just want to
land a person on the surface of Mars and say he's done (which is what we did
with the moon if you really think about it), but he wants to set up a colony
there. Surely you must be thinking, "well a colony would be nice, but
that'll take some time to get up and running, right?" And you're
absolutely right. It will take a lot of time and effort, but some of the work
is already being done because of SpaceX via their Starship. You see, the
biggest problem with getting to Mars...is getting to Mars. We for the longest
time barely had something that could get us to the moon and back safely, and
even then (like Apollo 13) it was very easy to screw up. With SpaceX though,
they've been working on faster, stronger, and most importantly of all, reusable
craft that can operate in space, come back to Earth, and then be outfitted
again for future missions. And it's this Starship class of ship that we'd be
taking to Mars to go and make a colony. Musk wrote in a message that the
eventual goal for his "Mars plan" is to launch each Starship vehicle
three times per day on average. Each Starship will be able to carry about 100
tons of payload to orbit, so, at that flight rate, every vehicle would loft
about 100,000 tons annually, he explained. Now, Musk may sound like he's just
spouting out a number here (and if we're being honest...he kind of is) but in
truth, he is trying to abide by the laws of space and reality. What do we mean
by that? Simple, when it comes to the facts of space travel, having the right
windows to travel in are essential. Not the least of which is trying to
minimize travel time by making sure you are in the correct windows. Confused?
I'll explain. Think about the solar system we are in, ok? Think about how every
planet orbits around the sun. Now, if you were to look at Mercury, and its
orbit, and then compare it to Earth's orbit, you would see quite easily that
its orbit was shorter than Earths by a very good margins. 88 days compared to
365. So now, compare the Earth's orbit around the sun to Mars. 365 days...to
867 days. Yeah...that's quite a leap. And because of that, the Earth and Mars
aren't in the same alignment most times. Thus, Musk, NASA and others are aiming
to try and get people to Mars within certain windows. "Building 100
Starships/year gets to 1000 in 10 years or 100 megatons/year or maybe around
100k people per Earth-Mars orbital sync," he said in a tweet. So for him,
he's thinking REALLY long term by not just trying to get to Mars, but also
trying to make it so WHEN we get there, and we have enough time and resources
to make a true colony, we have the ships necessary to get a full colony made in
a decent amount of time. By "decent amount of time" I mean about
50-100 years. Yeah, this is not a quick process, however, the quicker we get
started, the quicker we get done, right? And that's one of Musk's biggest
goals. Trying to do things now instead of hoping something will develop later
to make things more speedy. Because waiting around just isn't good when you're
trying to shape the human race towards its future. After hearing some of his
numbers, he stated one fan asked if he was seriously stating that we could have
a million people on Mars by 2050. His response? "Yes." Obviously that
would go against his timeline we just spelled out in part because of how long
it would take to MAKE a colony that could house a million people and be both
functional and self-sustaining, but hey, goals! Before we talk about whether
these goals are feasible or not, be sure to like the video or dislike it so
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videos! So let's break this down, shall we? Could we really have a full-on
colony city on Mars by 2050 that has a million or so people on it? Credits:
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