Walt R Yte
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I am big on space stuff too, maybe not to the same degree, but to add onto this "for the lulz".I am a huge astrophysics nerd if you couldn't tell
You'd basically have to be god himself to make mars livable in the time Elon says he is going to do it.
Because ignoring heat, atmosphere, sun protection, oxygen whatever, you'd also have to have a ecosystem, on a similar level to earths, in order to grow food or take care of animals (let's not even get into the logistics of sending ANIMALS to mars, we haven't even gotten a dog in our orbit without it dying. RIP Laika, or if we have gotten animals to our orbit and landed them safely on earth, I am unaware of it.)
But I digress, to make a ecosystem, let's assume the size of a continent, self-contained within a bio-dome, it'd still take decades, to have it grow and cultivate to the level it needs to be at, most likely without any outside help, as we would want to terraforming mars BEFORE putting people or animals on it.
Which means we basically need to build a bio-dome, with robots, plant millions of seeds (we don't even have collected yet) with robots, and hopefully this bio-dome just happens to have enough of the atmosphere to grow, cultivate, and weather all the plants (which I am just talking fuckin' grass) let's not forget, as you mentioned, this is assuming the robots operate all of this without fault, which can only happen if they are built to withstand the trip, and withstand DECADES of living on mars.
Let's also not forget the fact this biodome needs to be built to allow spacecrafts inside, at least ideally, so that means when the biodome opens the ecosystem has to be strong enough to survive whatever change in pressure or whatever that causes.
And to top it all off,, after all that hard work, at money, resources, all that, at that point you could've just spent that on LITERALLY ANYTHING else, here, on earth, (I'm fairly certain he had the opportunity to end, or at least put a massive dent in world hunger, but he funded some stupid bullshit instead) and have more of impact on humanity because none of this work will mean shit to any of us, we'll be dust in the ground before Mars is livable let alone with people on it.