A deep look at Elon Musk's first Mars base!!!

A deep look at Elon Musk's first Mars base!!!
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A deep look at Elon Musk's first Mars base!!!
If the pinnacle technological triumph of the 20th century was landing humanity on the Moon, then in the 21st century, the greatest technological feat would be successfully landing humanity on Mars.
Elon Musk is famously driven by this vision, asserting that within our lifetime, not only will Mars be colonized, but the groundwork for its inaugural city will commence. But once you've reached the Red Planet, what comes next? Where will you reside? How will the first Mars base be constructed and established? Join us as we delve into these pressing questions on today's episode of Alpha Tech!

[dgsantafedave]

I hope I live long enough to watch this happen!

[gretco]

Elon Musk for King 👑✨🪐🎟️🚕🙀🌌🚀🚀🚀👑 Mars-bound 👑 King of the World

[gavpike]

Nice to see such a rounded view of the plan ahead.😊

[CarolynHobbsHill.AKA.AbiWayne]

Having some Starships repurposed as living quarters is in keeping with the concept of REUSE. It is also a brilliant idea, providing what would be an immediate need for the new settlers.

[davegaetano]

If you want people to live on Mars permanently, you're going to have to make their life comfortable. First and foremost, that means psychologically comfortable. To get this, you're going to have to make the cities there very much resemble a city on Earth. That probably means some kind of a dome over the whole structure, of course partitioned for sake of safety. (The dome could also filter out harmful radiation.) And it means getting rid of all the red dust and dirt, either paving it over or importing/manufacturing black dirt to cover it and grow vegetation on.

[camarosspr]

Imagine there's a SpaceX division
W 30-50 employees planning this phase.
Where are the press releases?

[TTabb]

They should send some 60+ year olds on a one way mission to set up the base...I would go in a heartbeat and get $hit done!

[k.sullivan]

I know that if things did develop on Mars, that habitats would likely have LDC Screens for windows, with any scenery they want. I do hope that a type of transparent material similar to glass can be developed that would block radiation, yet allow settlers to look out at the real surrounding and the sky. Sometimes there are big dust storms in areas that last 3 to 6 months. Still, windows would be nice.

[anthonyschirillo]

But those starships can be used for emergency evacuation while they establish a stable colony

[raybod]

It makes more sense to build out one of the caves on Mars to build a habitat. A cave will offer better protection from cosmic rays and radiation from the sun.

[stevemickler]

The problem on Mars is losing. Heating is unnessary for a habitat due to the thin atmosphere.

[clavo]

Why should a design capability like reuseability, work to negate the inherent flexibility of use of a spacecraft?
In fact a curved sheet of clear polycarbonate inside the tanks would make turning the tank into a windowed convertible structure a matter of drilling out a couple hundred rivets. It could be used as a greenhouse or observation post. Heck it could be the first fancy restaurant !

[Gargamel-n-Rudmilla]

Just like the Moon, Mars will need to have an orbiting portal. This portal will comprise a docking station for arriving and departing Starships. Also fuel depots to refuel departing Starships and also shuttles which take gargo and or people down to and back up from the Mars surface.
The portal will also act as a com's relay station and also rescue station for the initial explorers.

These capabilities reduce risk to both astranauts and mission, providing redundancy and optionality.

Elon, in his reductionist viewpoint of no part is the best part, will cause huge loss of life when it comes to space flights to Mars; were there is only success or death as the outcomes. With such wafer thin margins of error one must build in redundancy and optionality and thua a Mars portal is a must in my view.

[patricktrue]

*** DEEP SPACE TRANSIT TIME REDUCTION SCHEME ***
Immediately begin the development of a "Port Tug Accelerator" space craft (featuring nuclear powered engines designed PUSH items to high velocities quickly). This specialized space craft will be used to PUSH (accelerate) any spaceship toward its deep space destination! The Port Tug Accelerator craft will push any deep space bound space ship only for a short distance and then let the deep space bound space ship glide to its destination with the high velocity provided by the Port Tug Accelerator craft. Place one Port Tug Accelerator craft stationed in lunar orbit until needed, and place a second Port Tug Accelerator craft in Mars orbit for Earth Return Trip velocity assists. This high speed accelerator system will reduce space ship fuel requirements and reduce travel time in space. (Thanks for your considerations and for sharing this concept!)

[scottpayne]

Best AI voice that Alpha Tech uses. Needs some tweaking in pronounciation and more natural breath placement. However as it is: acceptable.

[LuisMailhos]

Starting habitats on Mars are likely be composed by tunnels on a cliff.

[kennethpeterson]

An Elon idea.
First, put a million solar panels on Mars....

[richardprice]

SpaceX will make its own plans on colonizing Mars and your statements about how it should be done, frankly will most likely not be the way Elon does it.

[sandrasamara-ci]

There is one point that Mars flight enthusiasts prefer not to remember . This is hard gamma and x-ray radiation in deep space . People will die if they fly to Mars .

[johnrday]

This is really 'dreamtime' - notosay cannot be done, but is several years away and a lot of novel design + testing req'd before possible, but nothing wrong to plan/design even tho' will require complete redesign before reality check.