Ok, I will retell (this is not a scientific translation, hastily) article Mask, as promised. I do not have time for everything, so I'll post it in pieces. Sorry for the inaccuracy.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF MANKIND TO INTERPLANETARY TYPE (1) Elon Mask When I speak about the structure of the SpaceX Mars program, I want to present it to you as a real one - like what we can accomplish in our lifetime. The road to Mars, according to which anyone can pass, if he wants, exists.
WHY AT ALL WHERE TO FLY?.
I believe that in fact there are two fundamental directions. History will stand in front of the fork. One way is we will stay on Earth forever, and then, one day, an event will occur that will lead to our extinction. I do not preach the Day of Judgment right now, but as history teaches, one day the Day of Judgment will come.
The alternative is to become a civilization that conquered space and many planets, and this, I hope, you will agree, the right way.
So, how do we expect to send you to Mars and create an autonomous, self-sufficient city - a city that is not just an advanced outpost, but a city that can become a planet by itself, allowing us to turn into an interplanetary species?.
Why Mars? (2) Sometimes people wonder: "Well, how about other places in the solar system?" Why is it Mars? "Our opportunities to become an interplanetary species within the boundaries of the solar system are limited. We have, if we talk about the most accessible options, Venus, but Venus is a hot acid bath with high-super-high pressure, so this option is complicated. Venus is not at all like the goddess of beauty. So it will be difficult to do anything on Venus.
Then, we have Mercury, but it's too close to the Sun. We can potentially go to the moons of Saturn or Jupiter, but they are too far, much farther from the Sun, and they are harder to reach.
All this leaves us with only one real option, and this is Mars. We can go to our moon, and I have nothing against the moon, but I think it's hard to become an interplanetary species on the moon, because it's much smaller than the planet. The moon has no atmosphere. On the Moon, there are fewer resources than on Mars. The moon lasts for 28 days on earth, and Mars has 24.5 hours. In general, Mars is much more convenient to create on it an autonomous civilization.
If we compare two planets, they are surprisingly close in many respects. In fact, we now believe that once Mars was very similar to Earth. If we can warm Mars, we will once have a dense atmosphere and a liquid ocean.
Mars is about a half times farther from the Sun than the Earth, and it still has enough solar radiation. It's a little bit cold, but we can warm it up.. On Mars is a very useful atmosphere, which consists mainly of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon and traces of other elements, and this means that we will be able to grow plants in a compressed atmosphere.
On Mars should be fun, because the gravity there is 37% of the earthly, and it will be easy to pick up massive things and move around. Moreover, the day is very similar to the earthly. We just need to change the distribution of the population, because now there are 7 billion people on Earth, and on Mars - no one.
FROM EARLY STUDIES TO THE AUTONOMOUS CITY ON MARS (3) NASA and other organizations carried out a large amount of work on early exploration of Mars and an understanding of what Mars looks like. Where can we land? What is the composition of the atmosphere? Where is water or ice? We must move from these early research missions to the beginning of the construction of the city.
Today our problem is that if we look at the Venn diagram, the subsets of people who want to fly and those who can afford it do not intersect. In fact, now you can not fly to Mars, even for an infinite amount of money.
The Venn diagram, representing subsets of those who want to fly to Mars, and those who can afford it, now using traditional methods, and the approach similar to the approach to the mission of Apollo, an optimistic forecast of the cost is about $ 10 billion per person. Taking the Apollo program as a model, the cost of the program was $ 100 to $ 200 billion in current dollars, and we sent 12 to the surface of the moon, which was an amazing event - perhaps one of the greatest achievements of mankind.
However, these are very expensive tickets. That's why the circles on the diagram barely touch. It is impossible to create an autonomous civilization at a ticket price of 10 billion dollars per person. We need to combine circles. If we can reduce the cost of moving to Mars to an approximate equivalent to the median value of a home in the US, about $ 200,000, then, in my opinion, the probability of creating an autonomous civilization is very high. I'm pretty sure this will happen.
The Venn diagram, representing subsets of those who want to fly to Mars, and those who can afford it, using traditional methods Not everyone will want to fly. In reality, a relatively small number of people from Earth will want to fly, but there will be enough people who can afford it. There will also be sponsors.
We will find ourselves in a situation where almost everyone, if they accumulate some money and set a goal, will be able to buy a ticket and fly to Mars - and, since there will be a shortage of manpower on Mars for many years - jobs will be enough.
The expected price of the ticket is represented by the intersection of subsets on the Venn diagram representing subsets of those who want to fly to Mars and those who can afford it. The editorial office of the site is not responsible for the content of blogs. The editorial opinion may differ from the author's.
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