Why is Musk obsessed with going to Mars? /kloc-is it realistic for 0/10,000 people to immigrate to Mars?

If someone around you suddenly tells you that he plans to build a home on Mars and will lead 654.38 million people to immigrate to Mars, you will probably think that this person is mentally ill. However, if this man launches several landing test rockets in the next time and enjoys the plan, we have to reconsider how feasible this man's idea is.

On February 9th, 65438, at 5: 45pm EST, the prototype of starship SN8 was launched from the launch platform of Space Exploration Technology Company near the village in southern Texas. Although SN8 failed to complete the safe landing mission after 6 minutes and 42 seconds and exploded, many people who watched the launch of SN8 were still very excited, including Musk, the founder and CEO of Space Exploration Technology Company. Musk said that after the launch, the team had obtained all the required data, and was confident that Space Exploration Technologies would launch the first manned mission to mars in 2026.

There is a thin line between genius and madness. If you really want to change the world, you need to have both qualities. Perhaps this sentence is a lot of people's evaluation of Musk. They thought that Musk's plan to colonize Mars would push human science and technology forward a big step, but this is not the case. Musk colonized Mars more to fulfill his personal dreams and satisfy his inner philosophical desires, because Musk's philosophy holds that human beings should become interstellar species.

Musk once admitted in an interview that his original plan was not to colonize Mars, but just a charity project called "Mars Oasis". The project plans to build a small greenhouse on the surface of Mars, put the earth seeds in the greenhouse until the green plants grow, and take some incredible photos on the red background of Mars, so as to win the excitement of the public and finally excite Congress, so that they can allocate more money to increase the budget of NASA to realize themselves. Obviously, Musk's original plan was simply to visit Mars, and he had to admire that the dreams of the rich in the West were always so different.

Musk, who is proud in the shopping mall, is worth hundreds of millions, but his personal dream does not represent the dream of the country. NASA has no plans to land on Mars at all, so Musk set up a space exploration technology company, namely Space Exploration Technology Company. As a space exploration technology company with no official background, it is very difficult to enter space, because there is no push rocket, so Musk initially thought of buying rockets, such as Russian retired intercontinental missiles, but after several rounds of investigation, Musk gave up the purchase channel and tried to establish a rocket company to produce completely independently, which also led to the rocket launch test we later saw. I have to admire Musk's courage again.

If you just land on Mars, Musk's dream of Mars is indeed one step closer, but if you want to achieve 6.5438+0 million people to immigrate to Mars, I am afraid it is still far away. Although Musk talked about the plan to immigrate to Mars and described the large reusable rocket boosters and giant transport vehicles that transport people and goods to Mars, Musk never gave answers to the details of emigrating to Mars in all interviews, forums, conferences and other occasions, such as the details of the internal life of immigrants in spacecraft, and how to avoid space rays and solar flares. Almost all the promotional videos of space exploration technology companies are about "transportation system". Every time the video reaches Mars, the picture ends, and there is no expression of how immigrants live.

It seems that the plan that Musk is currently working on is more of a "courier company" model. Just how to transport it, as for who will transport it in the future, how to transport it to the destination, and how to establish a Martian colony, it will not be considered. In other words, the current so-called "1 10,000 people immigrate to Mars" plan does not specify who is responsible for creating habitats on Mars and actually constructing the "trans-planetary species" envisaged by Musk. All life-related support systems are zero, so the "Mars Dream" has actually not taken a step at all.

Musk believes that Mars is relatively close to the Earth, and there used to be surface oceans and rivers. Although it has evaporated and dried up, there are still ice and underground lakes, and the surface temperature range of Mars (–133 to 27 degrees) is not far from that of the earth. Using artificial or natural (solar) fusion, enough energy can be obtained. Therefore, Musk plans to launch two cargo ships to Mars in 2022. First, he will determine the colonial base, transform the living environment here, release carbon dioxide from the Martian soil by heating, create an atmosphere that is warm enough for Mars, and make liquid water possible.

However, many scientists think that Musk's idea is naive, because the atmosphere around Mars is too thin and the temperature is too low to accommodate the form of liquid water, and there is not enough carbon dioxide on Mars to provide a warming greenhouse effect. In addition, scientists also believe that Martian soil contains a lot of perchlorate, which is not only toxic to human body, but also impossible to grow crops. To build an ecosystem on Mars, we must first clean up all the Martian soil, but with the current technology, it is impossible. If we don't do this, then humans will always wear heavy protective clothing when they go to Mars, which is very different from Musk's "retirement life on Mars".

Besides, how will people spend this trip safely? How to overcome the harm of microgravity to the body? How does the spaceship return to Earth? How will immigrants get funds? In case of an accident, how will the spacecraft enter the shelter? All these problems should be considered.

Perhaps the plan of immigrating 6,543,800 people to Mars in the future can really be realized, but I think it is absolutely impossible to complete it in 2026. Within six years, Musk's large spacecraft failed to launch, let alone take 65,438+0,000 people to Mars. However, I have to admire Musk's dream. Maybe this is the real pursuit. If you were worth hundreds of millions, would you choose Mars or Jupiter, or other galaxies? # Scientific Burning Plan # # Why Musk is obsessed with going to Mars #