A close friend of mine started at SpaceX around 2013 ish.
The cultish self-delusion among employees is impossible to overstate. They've collectively agreed that missing their kids' birthdays and working themselves to exhaustion is heroic, because humanity cannot survive without their particular contribution to Elon's rocket company.
What I actually watched unfold in my friend was something simpler and older than that: vanity on a cosmic scale. SpaceX's mission narrative is extraordinarily convenient for people who need to believe the world revolves around them.
Ah, the Ketamine NAZI with his defunct Starship and other failed ventures intends to stick it to America once again! Sort of like his Orange hero making $60 million on his Trump phone fraud!!!
A million people on Mars? Even one person is not sustainable. There is no magnetosphere shielding the surface from cosmic and solar radiation, the soil is toxic, months-long sandstorms can choke off your only source of energy, if you get seriously ill, help is six to nine months away, and even withstanding the rigors of the voyage stresses the body and mind in ways never experienced before. Just ask any astrophysicist.
A close friend of mine started at SpaceX around 2013 ish.
The cultish self-delusion among employees is impossible to overstate. They've collectively agreed that missing their kids' birthdays and working themselves to exhaustion is heroic, because humanity cannot survive without their particular contribution to Elon's rocket company.
What I actually watched unfold in my friend was something simpler and older than that: vanity on a cosmic scale. SpaceX's mission narrative is extraordinarily convenient for people who need to believe the world revolves around them.
We stopped talking around 2018..........
Ah, the Ketamine NAZI with his defunct Starship and other failed ventures intends to stick it to America once again! Sort of like his Orange hero making $60 million on his Trump phone fraud!!!
A million people on Mars? Even one person is not sustainable. There is no magnetosphere shielding the surface from cosmic and solar radiation, the soil is toxic, months-long sandstorms can choke off your only source of energy, if you get seriously ill, help is six to nine months away, and even withstanding the rigors of the voyage stresses the body and mind in ways never experienced before. Just ask any astrophysicist.
I've been sharing some of your posts (probably to bots) to people convinced that Elon will be on Mars by 2030.
You lay everything out in such logical detail, they are shamed into silence. ;)