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Elon Musk tweets plans to create Texas
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 3/4/2021 12:08:51 PM

If anyone has the ability to surprise the world with his ambitious projects, it is Elon Musk . The billionaire announced that he is building a new city in Texas to be called Starbase , around the rocket launch site of his company SpaceX . Used to causing a stir by typing just a few words, Musk posted on Twitter that he is "creating the city of Starbase , Texas ." Later, he alluded to his project to colonize the red planet, hinting that Starbase would be just the beginning to go further. “From there to Mars. And hence the Stars ” , detailed the CEO of Tesla

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Safari Man 3/4/2021 12:15:23 PM (No. 714740)
Commune for loonies.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: SkeezerMcGee 3/4/2021 12:48:18 PM (No. 714766)
Will we be able to travel to Starbase via a Hyperloop? Another Elon Musk idea. See "The HYPEROOP - Busted" -YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk
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Reply 3 - Posted by: rada 3/4/2021 12:54:35 PM (No. 714774)
Love this guy, tireless dreamer who is not deterred by rocket blow-ups :-)
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Reply 4 - Posted by: GoodDeal 3/4/2021 12:56:51 PM (No. 714778)
How about going to California and creating two new cities, named Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: GO3 3/4/2021 1:10:44 PM (No. 714796)
I was thinking more like Alpha Beta Base.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: RuckusTom 3/4/2021 1:28:25 PM (No. 714815)
"Starbase" will look nice right next to San Antonio or Lubbock or Dallas or Houston or ...
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 3/4/2021 1:29:38 PM (No. 714817)
Musk has a lot of neat ideas, and hires capable engineers to make his dreams work....as far as they can within the laws of physics, at least. The Mars colony thing is a looney pipe dream other than some sort of a highly supported temporary outpost, not any sort of a self-sufficient colony as imagined in sci-fi books and movies. Surface air pressure on Mars is equivalent to the pressure on earth at 120,000 ft.....basically a near vacuum. Mars surface pressure is 1/100th the pressure on earth, close enough to a vacuum that it would be fine for many purposes that need "vacuum". If you want numbers, sea level pressure is 14.7 psi, on Mars it is about 0.145 psi. You need a space suit to walk around on Mars. Mars surface "air" temps range from a high of -10F to -30F to a low of around -120F, typically running over that range every day. There is almost no water. And the "air" is 95% carbon dioxide. That space suit will need a power supply to heat it if you stay out for very long. So....to get air to breath will mean you will need to break down the carbon dioxide to get the oxygen, but we live in 78% nitrogen and there is only 3% in the atmosphere on Mars. Lots of energy to break down the CO2, and you will spend a lot more separating nitrogen and concentrating it. Incredibly expensive in terms of $$ and energy to just get air. And water.....very, very little in the atmosphere 1 part per 10,000 parts of gases. There MAY be subsurface water ice. If not, that's another HUGE problem. What is your energy source? Not very easy for solar panels.....the solar energy at the surface of Mars is max of 60% the solar energy of Earth, because it is a lot farther away. And dust quickly covers panels. This is what eventually kills the various Mars rovers. You would likely need a huge nuclear power plant.....which would be very difficult and dangerous to ship to Mars for power, and things like water, nitrogen and oxygen are not easily available, perhaps impossibly expensive in energy terms. Not practical at all. At best, you'd be living indoors all the time with so little water that growing food will be extremely difficult, time, energy and resource intensive. Is the soil capable of supporting plants? Highly questionable, perhap or perhaps not without added plant matter. Creating soil on Earth can take centuries where water falls from the sky and plants can just grow wild.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: GO3 3/4/2021 1:52:29 PM (No. 714847)
... and Mars has no protective magnetic field. The effects of three days on the moon is not comparable to a seven month trip one way and six months on the surface of Mars. Say bye-bye.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: smokincol 3/4/2021 2:19:14 PM (No. 714875)
question is: will "Starbase" be a part of the confederation of Texas cities? don't think so.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: bad-hair 3/4/2021 3:33:05 PM (No. 714932)
60 miles west of Fort Worth formerly known as StewBase.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: FLCracker 3/4/2021 11:02:59 PM (No. 715267)
I want to found a Texas city and name it "You Can't Get There From Here" and use well known road name frequently found on maps. The road running running thru the middle of town would be "Dirt Road", crossed by "Unimproved Road. The one running down to the the secluded make-out sport would be "Four-Lane Highway", while "Lovers' Land would be in front of the First Baptist Church. You get the picture.
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