Musk's Mars Colonization

Comments discuss Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to send humans to Mars, colonization feasibility, costs, challenges, and incentives.

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hypothesis Feb 11, 2025 View on HN

At least one guy is/was trying to get to Mars or something, potentially spending us all in the process…

onemoresoop Jul 6, 2022 View on HN

to go where? Mars isn't ready yet

BHSPitMonkey Oct 7, 2016 View on HN

Elon Musk disagrees with you, for what it's worth: http://www.spacex.com/mars

toomuchtodo Apr 29, 2020 View on HN

Going to Mars isn't cheap.

PretzelPirate Sep 2, 2020 View on HN

Will this be useful when we go to Mars?

pbreit Sep 28, 2024 View on HN

Sending humans to mars is difficult.

hossbeast Mar 6, 2017 View on HN

We need Elon Musk to ship a few of these things to Mars

DrNuke Aug 31, 2016 View on HN

Is he really going to attempt terraforming / colonisation of Mars any soon?

thechao May 31, 2020 View on HN

In case you’re wondering why I, and others, are downvoting you: it sounds like you don’t have an even basic understanding of the technical aspects of a Mars mission, yet are spouting off — seemingly very confidently — statements of feasibility. Your comment doesn’t add to the conversation, and is at complete odds with nearly universal scientific and engineering consensus. SpaceX is going through billions of dollars with explicit near-term goal of a Mars mission. Perhaps, next time, try asking qu

pyre May 31, 2012 View on HN

Think Mars instead of Moon. Musk has stated that he wants to take this all the way to Mars.