Samit Sharma
Published September 30, 2016
Hola!
Two super awesome dogs greet you today, for this is the 80th edition of the WEB.
It’s also the last day of September. It’ll be October tomorrow. Halloween month. Boo. It’ll also be terminal exams month, Oktoberfest month,October heat month, the ultra festive Diwali month and the last month before US Presidential elections month. Month. I’ve said month so many times it doesn’t make sense to me anymore.
I saw the Presidential debate on Monday. Woke up at 6 in the morning to stream it live on Twitter. It was fine. From what I saw, Clinton’s gonna win the the election and be America’s first Woman President. And Trump, well I feel bad for him. He’s stupid, but I never pegged him to be a loser. The first Debate was his last shot at being seen as a legitimate politician, but he blew it. Big time.
Speaking of big things, Elon Musk announced his Mars Colonization plan on Wednesday.
He wants to send a 100 people to Mars by 2022. On a massive spaceship.
SpaceX wants to launch that ship to Mars, send 6 more payloads with fuel for the 80 day journey to Mars. It should technically take at least 6 months, but that’s what billionaire Mr Musk said his company will do it in. He wants to use Methane as fuel, land on Mars, offload the people, convert Mars’ carbon dioxide to Methane and get the ship back to earth to get more people to Mars.
It’s a massive feat, that will initially cost roughly 10 billion dollars a person. Eventually though, Musk says SpaceX can get a million people to inhabit Mars in a hundred years. And then maybe go to other places in the Solar System, like Enceladus, Saturn’s moon. You should really go see SpaceX’s Mars Colonization video on YouTube.
It sounds pretty outlandish to me. The closest analogy I can make is living in Antarctica. There’s hundreds of people living in Antarctica, most of them for science, but you don’t wanna raise a family over there. It’s cold and it’s barren. Like Mars. It’s a great planet to visit, but you wanna get back home after a while.
But if I ever get a chance, I’m in. Even if I gotta live there forever. I’ll do it for science. I wanna be a Martian. This planet is meh.
Tis, mate, was the Weekly Email Blast, email 80. Happy weekend !!!
All Things Sam 