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SpaceX with their reusable stuff is definitely changing the whole space industry. We might have an option to fly out there in our life time without being a mill

SpaceX with their reusable stuff is definitely changing the whole space industry. We might have an option to fly out there in our life time without being a millionaires.

stuxnet79 11y ago
Yes, I just finished Elon Musk's biography and it seems the objective is to get the price down to between $500,000 to a million for getting a single person to Mars. Extremely ambitious, but if it does happen, I will sell my house plus whatever hard assets I will own at the time and take my trip one-way to Mars.
- JoeAltmaier 11y ago
  I'll be on that trip too!
- jernfrost 11y ago
  I thought a lot about that too. A lot of people think that seems nuts of course to move to such a barren hostile world. But there is a certain appeal to do something advances human civilization. On earth you are just one small cog on the big wheel. You don't matter that much to the well being of earth civilization. But on Mars every single colonist would matter a lot for the future of that colony. Even if one dies earlier on Mars, it would seem better to live a short life with purpose than a long without purpose.
  - meric 11y ago
    What about Antarctica? Sure it's not a different planet, but you will be doing things that advance human civilisation and every person on Antarctica matters. EDIT: There's a lot of scientific research going on down there. [1] In Antarctica you can participate in research that can reduce the possibility of such a catastrophe in the first place. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_stations_in_Antarctica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_stations_in_Antarctic...
    - outlace 11y ago
      How is living on Antarctica advancing humanity? That would just be living in barren cold for kicks. Building and sustaining a colony on Mars would pave the way for future space colonization and possibly prevent the human species from going extinct if a catastrophe happened on Earth.
    - XorNot 11y ago
      What you can do in Antarctica is fairly limited (by international treaty) - unless you want front row seats for when the treaties run out in 2048.
    - adrianN 11y ago
      I regularly check job offerings in Antarctica, but the openings are few and the competition is fierce. I think you'll have a really hard time getting a job there unless you already work for an organization that does research there.
- ufmace 11y ago
  Why?
- rebootthesystem 11y ago
  Sell your stuff, then move to Africa and start solving problems there. You can do that now. Probably harder than Mars yet far more rewarding and of immediate, long lasting and relevant benefit to humanity.

SpaceX with their reusable stuff is definitely changing the whole space industry. We might have an option to fly out there in our life time without being a millionaires.

stuxnet79 11y ago

Yes, I just finished Elon Musk's biography and it seems the objective is to get the price down to between $500,000 to a million for getting a single person to Mars. Extremely ambitious, but if it does happen, I will sell my house plus whatever hard assets I will own at the time and take my trip one-way to Mars.

JoeAltmaier 11y ago
I'll be on that trip too!
jernfrost 11y ago
I thought a lot about that too. A lot of people think that seems nuts of course to move to such a barren hostile world. But there is a certain appeal to do something advances human civilization. On earth you are just one small cog on the big wheel. You don't matter that much to the well being of earth civilization. But on Mars every single colonist would matter a lot for the future of that colony. Even if one dies earlier on Mars, it would seem better to live a short life with purpose than a long without purpose.
- meric 11y ago
  What about Antarctica? Sure it's not a different planet, but you will be doing things that advance human civilisation and every person on Antarctica matters. EDIT: There's a lot of scientific research going on down there. [1] In Antarctica you can participate in research that can reduce the possibility of such a catastrophe in the first place. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_stations_in_Antarctica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_stations_in_Antarctic...
  - outlace 11y ago
    How is living on Antarctica advancing humanity? That would just be living in barren cold for kicks. Building and sustaining a colony on Mars would pave the way for future space colonization and possibly prevent the human species from going extinct if a catastrophe happened on Earth.
  - XorNot 11y ago
    What you can do in Antarctica is fairly limited (by international treaty) - unless you want front row seats for when the treaties run out in 2048.
  - adrianN 11y ago
    I regularly check job offerings in Antarctica, but the openings are few and the competition is fierce. I think you'll have a really hard time getting a job there unless you already work for an organization that does research there.
ufmace 11y ago
Why?
rebootthesystem 11y ago
Sell your stuff, then move to Africa and start solving problems there. You can do that now. Probably harder than Mars yet far more rewarding and of immediate, long lasting and relevant benefit to humanity.