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Robert Zubrin has been planning for Martian colonization for decades. He's like the Kurzweil for the movement, his Mars Society has been on a quixotic quest. Ho
by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
Robert Zubrin has been planning for Martian colonization for decades. He's like the Kurzweil for the movement, his Mars Society has been on a quixotic quest. Hopefully SpaceX hires him on as a consultant.
- novalis78 10y agoAbsolutely. An even closer cooperation between the Mars Society and Spacex would be great. I am pretty sure though his critique will be studied quite closely by Spacex.
- 100ideas 10y agoI would hire Kim Stanley Robinson first :)
- exBarrelSpoiler 10y agoHire both!
- T-A 10y agoFor Mars? I doubt it: "It’s important to say that the idea of Mars as a lifeboat is wrong, in both a practical and a moral sense." ... "My feeling now is that faced with the extreme expense, technical challenge, and danger of going to Mars, interest is going to shift to the moon as a destination that can actually be reached and occupied during some of our lifetimes." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/why-elon-musk-s-mars-vision-needs-some-real-imagination http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/why-elon-m...