Scientists who have studied the theory of space and how the universe behaves have finally
shared their opinions and beliefs regarding the SpaceX starship and Elon Musk's plans
to land humans on Mars, and turn it into our second home, much like the Earth.
The biggest gift to humanity, the starship, inspired scientists to finally pronounce how
excited they are to see Elon Musk persevere to make space travel and tourism a dream come
true.
Stay tuned as we reveal the secret thoughts of renowned scientists about Elon's starship
– you will find out how the idea of landing on Mars could sound like science fiction,
yet SpaceX will bring it to our reality.
Elon Musk unveiled SpaceX's plans to colonize Mars by building a one million-colony of humans,
and self-sufficient city on Mars before 2050.
And SpaceX's starship will be manufactured in a thousand pieces with three daily launches
to the Martian surface.
With SpaceX, Elon continues blending science fiction and reality, and we love it.
Celebrity scientist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who is likely one of the few astrophysicists,
is known for his occasional jabs at Elon Musk and his company.
However, he has grown fond of the SpaceX CEO in recent years.
However, he continues to offer criticism, particularly concerning the mars trip.
In 2017, someone on Reddit questioned him about his thoughts on SpaceX's Falcon 9 relaunch
and landing and what he felt it meant for the future of space travel.
Neil responded by saying that any proof of reusable rockets is welcome and emphasized
that reusability is likely the most crucial attribute of both affordable and luxury goods.
The Reddit user also asked if the famous astrophysicist would consider joining a future one-way mission
to Mars.
Neil's responded by saying;
"I like Earth, so I'm double checking that there are sufficient funds for me to return
any space trip I take.
Also, I'm not taking that trip until Elon musk sends his mother there and brings her
back alive then I'm good for it."
That looks a little dark turn at the very end.
More like saying he is not sure whether the starship can successfully journey to Mars
and return without any incident.
But as you can see, Neil DeGrasse Tyson wasn't precisely a SpaceX lover.
However, as said earlier, ideas change with time, so it wasn't terribly surprising that
Tyson became one of SpaceX's biggest fans just a year later.
In a CNBC interview, Tyson predicted that Elon Musk would change the society as we know
it, and the entire world would take notice.
And added that he believed Elon Musk would significantly impact our society more than
other tech leaders like Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.
He said that Musk is thinking about human advancement, culture, how we connect, and
what forces must be at work to carry civilization into the twenty-first century, rather than
just providing us with the next great smartphone app.
Like other tech gurus usually do.
Large payloads can be delivered to the moon and mars by effectively resetting the rocket
equation when a starship is fired in orbit.
The more mass you want to launch physically, the more thrust is needed to lift the starship
into orbit.
According to theory physicist Dr. Machio Kaku, you can load up a starship with rocks, ice,
and whatever else you find.
The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Martin Elvis and his colleagues have prepared
a white paper on how the starship's remarkable capabilities could be utilized to deploy several
next-generation space telescopes.
The event horizon telescope, a fictitious observatory on Earth that was used in 2019
to take the first picture of a supermassive black hole in a single launch, is one possibility.
A starship might launch a stack of six-meter telescopes into space, making a much larger
virtual telescope that would be able to view the thousands of supermassive black holes
that are present at the heart of galaxies.
Elvis added that, as recommended to NASA by the National Academy of Sciences' decadal
survey on astronomy and astrophysics in November 2021, the starship may also launch a sizable
telescope explicitly designed to image Earth-like exoplanets near other stars, just like the
JamesWebb telescope.
A starship with a practical volume of 1,000 cubic meters can hold the entire Eiffel Tower.
Despite this, the huge capability inspired Heldman and her colleagues, also wrote a white
paper on the potential equipment that a starship might transport to the lunar or Martian surface.
Scientist Jennifer Heldman, a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, said;
"you can take advantage of the starship's architecture and get to the outer solar system
in ways we haven't thought about before.
It could provide a revolutionary new way of exploring these worlds."
According to Jennifer, the starship size could one day allow us to send the first humans
to Mars and a huge amount of robotic research equipment to other planets and moons.
SpaceX first approached the planetary science community in 2018 with a series of mars workshops
that addressed fundamental issues like potential landing sites on the red planet and knowledge
gaps that need to be filled before people can live and work safely.
As a result, planetary scientists should consider how they can capitalize on this opportunity.
Several hundred people from the mars research community, including many well-known professionals,
attended the session.
Some planetary scientists had previously accepted SpaceX's mission, while others were still
doubting Elon potentials.
But the moment things turned for good about the starship launches, some of these doubters
began to change their tune as SpaceX developed and tested many prototypes over time.
Starship being selected for the lunar missions was a huge credibility boost in early 2021;
many of the workshop's participants started to recognize the urgency of getting NASA on
board with using starships for science missions.
As a result, they banded together and wrote a white paper with Heldman as the lead author
titled "accelerating martian and lunar science through SpaceX starship missions."
In addition to Heldman, several mars’ experts from academia, TedTalk show, SpaceX, and the
space industry signed on to the paper.
This paper forced NASA's leadership to allocate money for scientific payloads that could fly
on the starship.
This group of scientists and engineers wrote that NASA needs to develop a funded program
aligned with the development approach for the starship.
The program should include high-risk tolerance, a relatively rapid development schedule, and
ultimately a high ratio of potential science value for the dollars spent if the mission
is successful.
According to the white paper, the starship development presents NASA with a fantastic
opportunity to rethink how it has done exploration for more than half a century.
It would be a pity for NASA to miss out on this opportunity.
Another British physicist Brian Cox, a bona fide tv sensation worldwide, has said some
fascinating things about SpaceX.
He thinks that we are currently in a position to organize a mission to Mars successfully.
He says, "it's possible that you could if you had the investment.
I think we know how to do it, but it's likely to be more like two decades until humanity
is on mars, but you never know.
It's been remarkable how fast SpaceX and blue origin are advancing".
Cox feels that the invention of reusable rockets, which SpaceX introduced for the first time
in the history of the space industry, has been the most vital change in the sector over
the past few years.
Cox said that "these rockets could carry astronauts' scientists and eventually anyone who wanted
to move from the earth."
He said a plan known as mars direct is essentially a strategy to send the material first.
Like you send the base first without the people, and then once the base is working, you send
the people, and then it's a permanent settlement, and it grows, of course.
All these align perfectly with Elon Musk's plans for mars settlement, which are very
ambitious, but knowing that Elon Musk is trying to construct a colony on Mars is very much
within the realm of possibility appearing on Brian Cox's new documentary adventures.
The American aerospace engineer Dr. Robert Zubrin stated that "the idea of interplanetary
travel is not beyond our technology."
He emphasized that human mission to mars wouldn't be venturing into new and unknown worlds of
physics - we're talking about brass tax engineering building systems of moderate size and taking
them there; we do not require enormous spaceships like those seen in Battlestar Galactica.
Dr. Zubrin considers Elon Musk "some type of folk hero, a gift to humanity."
He said in the year 2000 that we knew about people like Elon Musk, but that they were
characters in science fiction stories and that there will one day be entrepreneurs who
would come along and make this happen.
Those characters have stepped out of science fiction novels and are now in the real world
doing this stuff.
Do you think the thoughts of these scientists are correct about what Elon's goal for SpaceX
starship?
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