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I suppose anything is possible.
Are they quantum ships?
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The settlement of Mars has already been well analyzed by an actual human.
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overload the tachyon drive and weâll be in Tharsis City by tomorrow morning.
please fasten your safety harness and remain in your deceleration chair for the remainder of your flight.
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Considering that appears to be the next up and coming grift, yes.
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I Wonder why the Men of my generation are so gullible.
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âperhaps with crewed versions passing near Mars [in ~2 years], and crewed Starships heading there in ~4 years are all possible.â
Ah, this is Muskyâs space version of âthe cars will be fully self-driving by next yearâ promise that heâs made for the last 12 years. âWe donât have the technology yet and itâs physically impossible, but besides thatâŚâ
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And doesnât it take 3 years just to get to Mars? 
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9 months, plus time to wait for alignment.
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In case anyone wonders, the math here is actually wonderfully simple.
- Earthâs orbit takes 1 year.
- Marsâs orbit takes about 2 years. A couple months less, which means you have to wait a couple months more for it to be in the same place relative to the Earth.
- An Earth-to-Mars orbit takes 1½ years, and a one way trip only uses half.
The last alignment just ended so right now a landing would indeed take 3 years. But I guess he did say approximately 2 years, so 3 or 5 or 7 or 99 still qualifies. 
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Yeah, specifically every 26 months, which also means a craft looking to return would have to wait in orbit around Mars for 16 months for the return 9 month journey, and we donât remotely have the technology to keep humans alive for 34 months of full exposure to solar radiation. I guess, to be fair, Elon also didnât specify that the astronauts would be alive during all of that journey.
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We might want to do a quick search to make sure SpaceX hasnât been asking about licensing to test 
rocket engines. 
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He canât drive 55?
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Elon Musk has never showed the slightest interest in the problem of how to keep people alive. You pack a 747 full of people, figure out how to get it into space, andâŚlook, weâll give them in-flight entertainment or something, that definitely covers the problems with that. Youâd think the fact that heâs never even mentioned how surviving might work would tip off people thatâs all just verbal flatulence, but then youâd think everything else would too, so. Two years sounds impressive, right? Keep the investment coming!
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Every dead colonist is just additional organic fertilizer for the next ship in Leonâs mind.
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The problem (or whole set of problems, rather) of keeping people alive is all squishy biology, whereas Musk is clearly only interested in the straightforward, manly engineering issues of shooting giant phalluses into space. Musk obviously aspires to be one of the two-fisted engineer heroes of so many mid-century sci-fi stories, and his understanding of the issues around space flight seems to be almost entirely premised on his questionable understanding of said stories.
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I canât believe people still think this guy is a visionary genius when he seems to think getting to Mars is as simple as cramming some packets of Tang in your pockets, popping a fish bowl on your head and jumping really really high.
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