Well yes, but we're talking DISTANT hypotheticals. I don't think anybody here thinks it's happening anytime soon, if at all. To clarify my earlier comment you face palmed to, it's just fun to talk about hypotheticals. I actually do think we'll probably wipe ourselves out first.
Yes, but they're so far-fetched and would take millenia (at least) to achieve even if we had the technology, they might just as well decide what they really need is, first, find a genie in a lamp who'll grant them three wishes about fixing up either Mars or Venus to their requirements, and then start debating what to ask the genie should they ever find the lamp.
Also if you can build a self-sustaining habitat and infrastructure that can survive on present Mars long enough to turn it into Blue Mars, it's actually easier and safer to build habitats inside a tunnel in Ceres.
I got an actual glossy book from the NASA store published by NASA about it when I first visited the US in the late 70s.
My earlier posts in this thread were mostly to talk about why Musk's predictions were hilariously absurd. I think we agree on that. But with this post I think you are taking it too far in the other direction. I have no idea what humanity might be able to do 1000 years from now in the unlikely event we don't wipe out our civilization first.
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Baby MechaHitler. Just great.
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lol!
Billionaires are certainly a minority that endure a great deal of prejudice in the US, amirite?
"Failure is NOT an option."
I would have added "with a sprinkle of DeLorean DMC-12", but that already went into the Cybertruck.
I had to look up the Caproni ca.60. OMG. You've provided my morning's entertainment.
It looks like a flying (?) paddle steamer.I had to look up the Caproni ca.60. OMG. You've provided my morning's entertainment.
Calling it a bad idea is insufficient. It is like some sort of drunken assault on the laws of aerodynamics, not to mention esthetics. Those aerodynamic laws were pretty well understood by 1921, when they built the ungainly contraption, but anyone who has stood behind a wall to get out of the wind can at least suspect that those front wings are going to reduce the air flow over the middle wings, and that the rear wings will be in even worse shape.* I did about 30 seconds of research to determine that by 1921 the triplane concept was a dead duck for reasons directly related to this and this is a ....a ....is there even a word? Nonaplane? This picture suggests the designer knew this, too -- those things that look like office dividers in the rear wing must be the rudders. It looks like there are about a dozen of them! They must have built a model and quickly found out yaw was almost impossible to control without huge amounts of control surface.
It is so obviously unworkable it makes me wonder if, as I suspect SpaceX is, it was a sort of Producers style investment scam.
Almost unbelievably, it actually achieved some sort of very brief successful flight. Once. The second time it wisely stuffed itself into the lake and that was that.
* In fact, as I look at it, the thing is actually designed to attempt to fly in its own wake turbulence.
** It is weird how much aeronautical engineering one picks up just by living for 20+ years in a Boeing engineer neighborhood!
WHAT a shame because I kind of love that thing. Look at it! The cheek! I want to get one and open it as like a floating diner or something!
