COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
"Elon Musk:
SpaceX can colonise Mars and build moon base"
Musk is a very intelligent man, so what can you say of such
a nonsense assertion?
Well, it keeps excitement going and likely keeps speculative
investors investing.
Mars is a totally hostile environment, making even the most
polluted earth imaginable look cozy by comparison.
Mars offers zero promise of anything except maybe minerals
which could be better exploited by robots.
Yes, there are always adventurer types willing to go
anywhere, and in the days of the New World being opened, they were important.
But we already know Mars in remarkable detail from all our
robots and satellites.
It has almost no atmosphere. It is incredibly cold. Its surface
is a vast wasteland which makes the Southwestern American desert look lush, and
it now turns out that it is poisonous too.
