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Old October 1st 16, 11:49 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Bob Haller
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Default Musk plans for mars

On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 5:33:54 PM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote:
How realistic is it to build a ship with 100 or as Musk really wants 200
people enclosed for ~3-4 months, and expect these people to be
functional after being lethargic in 0-g all that time ?

Also, when they land, since there won't be a JFK airport with airtight
jetways to welcome the people, won't they each need to have their own
suit (perhaps a requirement to live on mars anyways) and that would take
up a lot of space as cargo.

The logistics of unloading the ship would be interesting.


just send lots of cargo ships, with redundant everything. so some failures can be tolerated