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Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP

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Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP

arstechnica.com /space/2025/02/elon-musk-recommends-that-the-international-space-station-be-deorbited-asap/

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FYI the plan was the deorbit it in 2030.
- Apparently, Elon wants that sooner rather than later.
  
  You gotta wonder if today's fight with the previous commander of the ISS had anything to do with it.
  It would be the most petty, dumb, and childish thing to call for the de-obiting of the ISS over a tweet, but my expectations for him get lower each day.
- Where would they get the materials, machines, and tools needed to build a space station on the ISS?
"Let's go to Mars"
Imagine living some place where you have to pay Musk for your air and water.
- The book A City On Mars is a great read about why everything Mars settlement enthusiasts want to do is a bad idea, and yes it covers the problem of a private company controlling your air supply.
  
  [the Expense series has entered the chat]
  Oya beltaloada!
- New Bioshock sequel coming up?
- I disagree. We should orbit him.
  
  Well yeah, that way you can deorbit him
  
  Reaching escape velocity is expensive. We can be more efficient and still achieve the same result using a minuscule fraction of the propellant and none of the rocket framing.
most likely because he wants to launch his own and charge america through the nose
Why wouldn’t he? Now even more money can flow towards spacex’s not-gonna-happen goal of going to Mars.
- Simpsons did it first! In an episode the rich and smart were sent on a ship as the earth is ending. Thought the smart folks will just be replaced by AI at this point. Once it becomes a reliable repository for knowledge - meaning no 'need' for ~~fart smellas~~ smart fellas.
  The conclusion of such an approach is even broached by Wall-E, disney of all folks.
Lemmy user (me) recommends Elon Musk to be fired into the Sun ASAP
- Cheaper to shoot him into interstellar space. Less Δv needed that way.
  
  I dunno, what if in a couple million years some alien civilization finds what's left of him and resurrects or clones his brain? I don't know if we should take that risk..
  
  If price is the issue please send me the gofundme link
- Seconded!
Elon Musk is also an idiot so why should we be listening to him? He already sees business opportunity for his bullshit SpaceX or some shit.
Good thing he doesn't have a conflict of interest... oh wait.
Remember the 4chan post about a crack in the ISS.
Accelerationist pepperidge farms remembers..
- I think that's probably the instigating factor. He saw on Twitter that the ISS has a big crack and the government is covering it up, he decided it's true because in his mind trolls on the internet have a higher level of authority than any expert or scientist, and now he has to insist on deorbiting it to prove himself right instead of backing down or listening to any reason to the contrary.
Put him on it first, then let it drop
Was this before, or after he called a former commander of the ISS "fully retarded?"
The Apartheid Manchild has this weird obsession with Mars.
There will be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next decade. (I frankly doubt that there will even have been human footprints on Mars in the next decade!) There will be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next century. There will likely be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next millennium. And I'm saying that last one not because I don't think we'd have the technology in a thousand years, but rather because there is no point in living on Mars.
Mars has nothing we need that's worth maintaining a settlement in the face of conditions harsher than the absolute worst the Earth has to offer. If people want to live in a permanently cold shithole with nothing usefully accessible they can just build a house on Antarctica. It's a far cheaper way to fuck around and find otu.

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