How SpaceX And Elon Musk Will Colonize Mars! (2022 Update)

let's talk about the future of humanity, a heavy topic, I know, but it's something Elon Musk is very invested in right now: is our destiny to stay here on Earth or our future is somewhere far beyond, like the planet Mars, that is the result that Elon has. betting on at least and we are already in the early stages of their plan to make human life multiplanetary for the first time in human history, we are entering a window of possibility to extend our civilization to an entirely new planet and it is thanks a lot part of

elon

musk

's ambition or

elon

musk

's madness depends on how you look at it either way let's get into the plan to put a human city on the red planet.

Our most recent

update

from Elon Musk came in his live performance from Starbase. This is a Spacex test facility at the southernmost point of the state of Texas, on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. It's a place pretty far from civilization, with the exception of a quarter-mile-long row of houses that are now majority owned by Spacex. It's where the magic happens. This is the scenario of the mission to Mars. In fact, you can take a look for yourself. The area is still fully accessible to the public. Not that you have to, but you can drive to the launch pad and rocket manufacturing. facilities just don't be a weirdo or you could tour the grounds from home on Google Street View.

The car was there in August 2021, so it's relatively up to date anyway. The reason Elon made the presentation about him at Starbase is because this is where Spacex is being built. a gigantic rocket called starship, this is the combination of a super heavy rocket booster with a multi-function spacecraft on top, when it is launched later this year, the starship

will

be the largest flying object in history, I know this is the point some of you are at. I'm going to try to mention the Hinenburg in the comments. The Hinenburg was a balloon. Balloons don't fly, they float.

You have been discredited, but the most important thing is that this big rocket

will

also fly to Mars in this decade and at some point in the future. In the not-too-distant future, it will also take people there. The spacecraft is Elon Musk's response to the concept of the great filter, which is the boundary a civilization must cross before it could theoretically become multiplanetary if there were no great filter at the time. Our galaxy would be like Star Wars, where everyone flies back and forth between different planets and systems on a regular basis, but since so far we have not collected legitimate evidence of space civilizations among the billions of stars that make up the Milky Way, then We can assume that there is some universal obstacle that holds us all back and that is the great filter in Elon's mind.

The most important step to crossing that boundary is for us to have a second planet that is no longer dependent on the original planet, which means more than just sending people to Mars, we need to send things along with them, resources and infrastructure to create a self-sustaining city on Mars. . Elon has discovered that we will need to transfer about 1 million tons of stuff from Earth to Mars before we can. reach the minimum requirement to be self-sufficient and only the spacecraft will be able to do so. Spacex's plan is to mass produce the spacecraft at a high enough volume that we can have at least a thousand of them in service at the same time and each booster and ship combination will be quickly reusable, so quickly that each ship will be able to carrying 100 tons of cargo into orbit three times in one day.

Elon once promised that the starship program would deliver 1,000 times more mass to orbit than every other rocket on Earth, a starship combined, opens the window that makes all of this possible, as Elon often says that the window it could stay open for a long time and hopefully it will, but it could also only stay open for a short time and that's why we need to do this. as soon as possible, this is the first time in Earth's 4.5 billion year history that this feat has been even remotely possible now, aside from all that spreading the light of consciousness stuff he does, Elon promises that the trip Mars will be an incredibly exciting adventure, but like crossing any new frontier, it will not be a comfortable or safe journey either.

This is Elon Musk's sales pitch for going to Mars. It will be narrow, dangerous, difficult, very hard work and you could die. I hope you like it. Elon wants to do. I'm sure everyone knows this won't be some kind of escape hatch from Earth to a new paradise. We are going to an incredibly dangerous and hostile place. Elon says Mars is a planet in need of repair. It will take some work to achieve this. It's easy to live there, but he still optimistically believes that one day we could make Mars a planet like Earth. From Spacex's new renderings we can see their first ideas of what that self-sustaining city on Mars could look like.

Multiple spacecraft pass through the thin Martian atmosphere to descend to land at a Mars spaceport, we see a sprawling low-rise settlement laid out in a valley between mountain peaks, there is a giant glass dome that appears to house a greenhouse or farm and This is what a million tons of things would do. I was searching the Internet for a way to try to contextualize a million tons of material and what I found was the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world that reportedly weighs around 500,000 tons, so take the Burj Khalifa double it and then try to imagine that mass spread over a bunch of tiny little buildings on Mars, it starts to make sense, but it's going to take a lot to get there, so let's run some numbers quickly, if each ship is carrying 100 tons of cargo to Mars, then it will go. taking 10,000 spaceship landings to reach 1 million tons, let that sink in for a second, it's no small task we're talking about here with a fleet of 1,000 spaceships that are only 10 trips each, but It is complicated by the journey from Earth to Mars.

Transit window for which we would use something known as a Haman transfer orbit. This is the elliptical orbit used to perform transfers between two circular orbits around a central body. In this case, the Sun. We have a launch window for this transfer, but it only happens once every 26 months. and the travel time between the two planets will be between six and nine months and it is more or less the same when returning, you have to wait for that window to open again, so we would be looking at the round trip of the Earth loving You. minimum four to five years and that would mean about four to five decades to complete the mission if we stick to the formula of 1000 ships carrying 100 tons, which of course can change a lot in a few decades.

New advancements with engines and material signals may increase maximum capacity, and of course we don't really expect Spacex to simply stop making ships once they hit 1,000; obviously they will continue to grow the fleet indefinitely, maybe at some point down the road they will invent a better vehicle than the starship, maybe they will. being a new spaceport on the moon where

spacex

manufactures a new generation of giant cargo ships that would never be physically possible to build and launch from earth, it's quite a rabbit hole once you start descending, so landing a million Tons of stuff on Mars and building a city is cool, but let's go back to that part where Elon said that one day we could make Mars a planet like Earth, that's a little more complicated because when I imagine Mars being like Earth, I think I imagine I can walk outside and breathe. air that wouldn't work out so well on Mars as it is now if you tried to walk on Mars without a spacesuit, you'd be hit with freezing temperatures, a complete lack of breathable oxygen, and an extremely low pressure environment that would cause your body fluids to boil and vaporize, I don't know what would get you first, but it would suck either way, so to really fulfill Elon Musk's dream we have to change the environment of Mars to be more like Earth, that doesn't mean it has to be like the perfect weather in Miami all the time.

It just needs to be within the habitable zone for humans. So how do we do it right? The biggest problem with Mars is that it suffered a backup greenhouse effect at some point in its past. Instead of greenhouse gases building up in the atmosphere and retaining heat from the sun and maintaining pressure on the surface, most of those insulating gases simply dissipated into space and the reason for this is probably because the fields magnetic elements that Earth's hot rotating metallic core creates our magnetosphere. That works to trap high-energy particles from the sun away from the planet's surface.

Those solar winds never reach us down here and that keeps our atmosphere intact. Mars doesn't have a magnetic field right now and that allows the solar winds to go away as much as possible. Part of the atmosphere reduces the surface pressure on Mars to about one percent of that on Earth, which is not suitable for life as we know it because it is physically impossible for water to exist in a liquid state at a pressure so low that comes straight out of Frozen in gas, we know that there is frozen ice on Mars at the poles and we know that there is also frozen carbon dioxide on the surface of Mars, so if we could heat those elements above the freezing point on Mars, it would be they would vaporize and aggregate. its density to the atmosphere and would help start a greenhouse effect that would begin to terraform Mars into a more Earth-like environment.

How do we do that? Elon Musk has joked about nuking Mars. In theory, it's a good idea to detonate a giant bomb or a series. of bombs on the pole would superheat the surface below and vaporize whatever is frozen there. It's an extreme method and probably wouldn't work either; there probably wouldn't be enough frozen water and CO2 at the pole to have a significant effect on the pole. atmosphere, it might increase the temperature and pressure, but not enough to make it worthwhile. Another idea would be to put some giant mirrors in orbit around Mars and use them to concentrate the sun's heat on the surface with as many really big mirrors as we can. heating the entire surface of Mars at once and releasing all those frozen gases into the atmosphere, that might work well, it's not very good, but it is thought that we could increase the atmospheric pressure up to about 8 psi on Earth, our surface pressure It's about 15 psi, that's what we like, but once we start the process on Mars, then we could try other techniques to help it, we can locate asteroids that contain the ingredients we want and redirect them to the surface of Mars where they will explode. . and contribute to the density of the atmosphere maybe we could collect hydrocarbons from the atmosphere of other moons and planets like Titan or Venus and import them to Mars, if we can at least increase the pressure and temperature on Mars then we could be comfortable. enough to walk around without the need for a bulky spacesuit, we would surely need an oxygen mask and probably goggles, maybe even some kind of skin-tight condom suit depending on how toxic the new atmosphere turns out to be, but at least it would be A good first step, so that's why Elon Musk has the sense of urgency that he does about this.

If we are going to make Mars a legitimate second home, just like Earth, then it will take a long time, there are no shortcuts involved. If he's lucky, Elon might live long enough to see his city finished, if everything goes perfectly as planned and it will be even longer before we can start bringing Mars to any state that is considered habitable, we have a window to do this , but we don't know how long it will stay open and that's a little scary, but at the same time we're hoping that people like elon musk and his team of incredibly smart people at

spacex

don't waste their time getting started, so I guess that's leaves us with a question: who's ready to sign up for a job in the city of Elon on Mars?

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