Elon Musk is glorious but also a moderately testis . He has his eye on a piece of real demesne onMars for a colonythat would accomodate around 80,000 masses . consider NASA just set ashore the Curiosity Rover , we might be putting the go-cart before the sawbuck here .
This colony is still pretty far off from becoming a genuine matter , but Musk is already let the cat out of the bag plans . They ’d start small , ferrying just 10 people at a prison term to see if living on the Red Planet is workable . Hey , if they all croak in space , it ’s okay because at least the other 79,990 masses annul sure death . And the willing colonizers would need loads of equipment — construction material to build transparent domes to live in that will be pressurized in a way that allow them to arise crops , as well as machine that will make fertilizer .
to in reality get people out there , SpaceX wants to make a recyclable rocket loosely based on the Falcon 9 booster — the catapult for Dragon . It would have a especial present burning Hz engine call Raptor that would farm hot high - pressure gas that advertise propellent into the combustion chamber of the railway locomotive . The whole design is approximate to cost a staggering $ 36 billion , which actually sounds like a bargain , view there is currently no way to put up life on Mars .
Interested ? get-go save now . A ticket will cost you $ 500,000 . The surprising part is that Musk think this is comparatively affordable . Are there even 80,000 hoi polloi with enough money and chutzpah to signalise up for this ? Again , Elon Musk is kind of crazy . But at least it ’s in the adorable mad scientist form of way of life . [ Discovery ]
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