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77 launches isn’t absurd. It is BELOW what spaceX is planning for. There’s nothing remotely sensible about a million colonists, so that’s a pointless straw man

77 launches isn’t absurd. It is BELOW what spaceX is planning for. There’s nothing remotely sensible about a million colonists, so that’s a pointless straw man. Lastly, the necessities to support 8 people aren’t that different from the necessities to support 100. They scale wayyy better than linearly. Again, the issue with supporting people on mars is not the vehicles to get there.

ncmncm 4y ago
10 superheavy launches per colonist does not admit 1M colonists, and 1M colonists is at least two orders of magnitude short of self-sufficient. It is very far from clear that Mars can physically support 100M inhabitants.
- oneoff786 4y ago
  Again, nobody is saying anything about 1M colonists. That’s a stupidly high number. 100M is 100x stupider
  - ncmncm 4y ago
    Musk blathers about 1M colonists all the damn time. Almost embarrassed for him: not sure whether because he believes it could happen, or would be enough.