re: #350 Big Beautiful Door

Speaking of Mars, Elon Musk is now planning to send people there in seven years. I don’t think for a second that he’ll make that deadline, but I appreciate him exceeding his grasp, because its vitally important to establish a self-sustaining human colony on another planet as soon as possible. I use to be fairly optimistic about our future, but the election convinced me a large percentage of humanity is hell-bent on destroying the planet, and we’ll be lucky if they fail.

Well, let’s be realistic, in 1960 putting a man on the Moon in a decade was pretty much an impossible task. We’d barely mastered putting men into Earth orbit reliably and that was only through converting ICBMs into launch platforms for manned missions. If JFK had not set the deadline of 1969, it’s doubtful we’d have made it to the Moon as soon as we did.