09-10-2019, 08:53 PM
ztirffritz wrote:
[quote=mikebw]
And this, I think, is why Musk is so hot to get at least some of us on Mars, ASAP.
We need to remember that humans will not be able to live on any other planet unsupported by Earth for a LONG time. Elon's plan is ambitious, but achievable, but it still requires an umbilical cord for supplies from earth and will for decades, if not centuries.
One nice byproduct of the space based infrastructure that will be required to achieve this, is that we’ll be better positioned to deal with asteroids.