Was this before, or after he called a former commander of the ISS “fully retarded?”
The Apartheid Manchild has this weird obsession with Mars.
There will be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next decade. (I frankly doubt that there will even have been human footprints on Mars in the next decade!) There will be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next century. There will likely be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next millennium. And I’m saying that last one not because I don’t think we’d have the technology in a thousand years, but rather because there is no point in living on Mars.
Mars has nothing we need that’s worth maintaining a settlement in the face of conditions harsher than the absolute worst the Earth has to offer. If people want to live in a permanently cold shithole with nothing usefully accessible they can just build a house on Antarctica. It’s a far cheaper way to fuck around and find otu.
FYI the plan was the deorbit it in 2030.
Apparently, Elon wants that sooner rather than later.
You gotta wonder if today’s fight with the previous commander of the ISS had anything to do with it.
It would be the most petty, dumb, and childish thing to call for the de-obiting of the ISS over a tweet, but my expectations for him get lower each day.
Musk is such a miserable pile of trash that it’s insulting he even has a 1/100th the influence he has
Tell me they’re gonna use it as a staging point for the new station parts and build it remotely from here instead of launching everything up there from fresh after abandoning their foothold
that’s exactly what they’re not going to do
Where would they get the materials, machines, and tools needed to build a space station on the ISS?
Send in bucket.
We should deorbit him instead.
I disagree. We should orbit him.
Well yeah, that way you can deorbit him
Reaching escape velocity is expensive. We can be more efficient and still achieve the same result using a minuscule fraction of the propellant and none of the rocket framing.
Efficiency. That’s his thing. Let’s make sure it’s efficient.
A guillotine doesn’t require any fuel
FALSE!
The blade is pulled up by human work, muscles are fueled by food.
I volunteer as tribute
A trebuchet will achieve the same result and require none of the rocket framing.
I mean we’re already sending rockets up there. I’m sure we can afford to dump him out on the way.
MelodiousFunk does have a point. Shooting him is cheaper.
Yeah, but that’s not ironic enough for me.
Just hogtie him and leave him on the lauch pad. We get rid of a problem, and the problem is turned into mostly it’s component atoms. Give giving the circle of life a little help!
Trebuchet? Cheap? ✅. Easily assembled and transported? ✅. Low tech not needed any rare earth materials? ✅. Sufficient to launch him at least 150 m? ✅. Low survivability rate for potential additional yeeting? ✅.
To be clear, I am not advocating for shooting Musk. I am saying we can ignite a fraction of the rocket fuel without any of the containment vessels or expensive infrastructure. While there will be no liftoff, it would certainly be uplifting.
“Let’s go to Mars”
Imagine living some place where you have to pay Musk for your air and water.
The book A City On Mars is a great read about why everything Mars settlement enthusiasts want to do is a bad idea, and yes it covers the problem of a private company controlling your air supply.
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Oya beltaloada!
Lotta fellota in here…
most likely because he wants to launch his own and charge america through the nose
Put him on it first, then let it drop
Why wouldn’t he? Now even more money can flow towards spacex’s not-gonna-happen goal of going to Mars.
Elon Musk is also an idiot so why should we be listening to him? He already sees business opportunity for his bullshit SpaceX or some shit.
Lemmy user (me) recommends Elon Musk to be fired into the Sun ASAP
Cheaper to shoot him into interstellar space. Less Δv needed that way.
I dunno, what if in a couple million years some alien civilization finds what’s left of him and resurrects or clones his brain? I don’t know if we should take that risk…
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If price is the issue please send me the gofundme link
Seconded!
Good thing he doesn’t have a conflict of interest… oh wait.
Remember the 4chan post about a crack in the ISS.
Accelerationist pepperidge farms remembers…
I think that’s probably the instigating factor. He saw on Twitter that the ISS has a big crack and the government is covering it up, he decided it’s true because in his mind trolls on the internet have a higher level of authority than any expert or scientist, and now he has to insist on deorbiting it to prove himself right instead of backing down or listening to any reason to the contrary.
