Amazing article about Elon Musk’s plans for colonizing Mars!
This guys think HUGE! Are you viewing the world like Musk? I
hope so. From Rob Coppinger of Space.com via Yahoo News: “At
Mars, you can start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it
into something really big,” Musk told an audience at the Royal
Aeronautical Society in London on Friday (Nov. 16). Musk was
there to talk about his business plans, and to receive the
Society’s gold medal for his contribution to the
commercialization of space. Accompanying the founders of the new
Mars colony would be large amounts of equipment, including
machines to produce fertilizer, methane and oxygen from Mars’
atmospheric nitrogen and carbon dioxide and the planet’s
subsurface water ice. The Red Planet pioneers would also take
construction materials to build transparent domes, which when
pressurized with Mars’ atmospheric CO2 could grow Earth crops in
Martian soil. As the Mars colony became more self sufficient,
the big rocket would start to transport more people