on Tuesday night, Norwegian time let romgründer Elon Musk off their plans for an interplanetary transport system. Yes, you read it right. The man behind PayPal and Tesla, and will save the earth with green energy – want to colonize Mars.
It sounds like a crazy man’s plans, but Elon Musk is far away from the crazy. A little crazy, obviously, but he does not this is first and foremost for themselves. He does it to save humanity from the death we are inexorably heading for.
Wait, hvaforno!?
I mean there really are only two basic ways for people. One is that we remain on the earth forever and at one time or another something happens that destroyeth us, ” said Elon Musk during the presentation.
Musk emphasizes that he is not some dommedagsprofet, but that history indicates that we do not have any reason to believe that we shall get away where the other species on earth has had to succumb.
- the Alternative is that we develop a romfarende, interplanetary art.
MARS IS the IDEAL
Elon Musk believes Mars is the ideal place to go. It is relatively close, there are large amounts of frozen water under the surface and the atmosphere contains carbon dioxide and nitrogen needed to drive agriculture.
Besides, the force of gravity only about a third of the earth.
weight lifting is a breeze, but more importantly, with the help of metanbrennstoff from the surface of Mars can Musks space shuttles leave Mars weak gravity and return to earth.
X-FACTOR
to be able To return to earth is not only reassuring for those who benefit, the reuse of the equipment is at the heart of Elon Musk’s business plan.
Think of SpaceX as the airline Norwegian. They can offer a flight to New York city for 3000 money because they can fill up the plane with new, paying passengers and fly back. Imagine the ticket price if the Norwegian had to scrutinize the plane after every trip.
If it had been possible to buy a ticket to the March today, estimates the Musk that the price would have been around nok 80 million. When SpaceX’s interplanetariske transport system (ITS) is in full swing, think Musk that the ticket will cost approximately nok 1.6 million. Lighter materials and more powerful rockets helps to keep the price down.
In advance of the presentation on the 67. international romfartskongressen in Mexico on Tuesday night announced the Musk that they already have prøvekjørt the interplantariske solid-fuelled Raptor. This is a monster of an engine, three times stronger than the Merlin engine SpaceX uses in today’s Falcon9 rockets (you know, the people who run and explode).
HOW SHOULD WE TRAVEL TO MARS
But how to really ITS work? In theory, it is simple enough:
You and 99 other adventurous men and women go aboard in a vessel mounted on top of a massive new rocket consisting of 42 roaring Raptor-engines.
together, your ship is just as high as a 40 story building.
In a speed of a few tens of thousand kilometres an hour hazards, you and your medpilegrimer through the atmosphere and are parked in an orbit around the earth.
Here you must wait a while while the rocket turns around and returns to earth to retrieve more fuel. When the tank is full can march to March begin. The top speed of the ship is over 30,000 km/h, and the trip takes not more than three months.
Musk is convinced that the passengers get it “blast” on the trip, tumle around in the weightless condition, see movies and eat pizza (yes, that’s the plan).
heat shield under the ship will help to slow your descent toward Mars, but the real braking action must the spacecraft be for yourself.
the Idea is that the rocket will land to SpaceX not get all the way to the with the Falcon9 here on earth …
oh Well, it is sure to go great.
City on the March
Elon Musk believes that it will grow up a city on Mars with millions of inhabitants. It will require thousands of ships and tens of thousands of romreiser. Visjonæren think it will take between 40 and 100 years.
There is yet some years ahead in time before March is a three month trip and a mortgage on a half million away. So why unveils the SpaceX their plans now? In order to obtain the money.
the Goal of SpaceX has always been to travel to Mars. But to develop the technology to colonize the red planet is both extremely costly and time-consuming, and Elon Musk is dependent of the investors will join the adventure.
questions from the audience about the Musk even want to go out in the room, revealed the billionaire and ideologen at the same time a concern for a plan that is funded with money from investors.
I must first assure me that if something goes wrong on the trip and I die, then we have a good plan for how the objective of the company shall continue and not be acquired by investors who only want to maximize profits and not to travel to Mars. That is what I fear the most.
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