Space nerds, has SpaceX talked publicly at all about the en-route obstacles to a Mars mission (radiation, deconditioning, closed-loop life support) and how it plans to address them? I can find stuff about launch and landing but not the middle part that is the actual dealbreaker.
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The big gating problems in space flight to Mars are almost tailor-made to stimulate Elon Musk's boredom centers—bone loss, kidney stones, degenerating eyesight, figuring out how to reliably grow a salad. The exact kind of old man problems he doesn't want to think about on Earth.
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You’ve seen the Vegas tunnel? I picture Musk just loading some suckers up with 2 tons of power bars, 10 tons of water, some rave lighting, and saying he’s “solved” the long distance space travel problems. If they all go bind or what not, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Yes, the Fyre Festival approach to space exploration
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