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   Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 23:41:44 JST Glyn Moody

   Elon #Musk: “We’re going straight to #Mars. The Moon is a distraction.” - https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/elon-musk-were-going-straight-to-mars-the-moon-is-a-distraction/ excellent, let's hope he sets an example by being among the first to go - and stay there...

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     Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 07:08:22 JST Glyn Moody

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     • Stefan Ihringer

     @compfu yes, there seems to be a non-musk consensus that no one is going to be living on mars any time soon, and probably ever...

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     Stefan Ihringer (compfu@mograph.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 07:08:23 JST Stefan Ihringer

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     @glynmoody Reading the book „A city on Mars“ right now and it argues that all these fancy CGI pictures of Mars bases are ridiculous: Due to the radiation there they would have to be underground. Some of these images show solar panels smaller than people have on their balconies but on Mars there’s just 30% of solar energy due to the distance. And the list goes on.