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For those who are new to who SpaceX is, they are a privately owned Company that builds reusable rockets. As well as they just Recently launching some of the first Krypton powered satellites, and are hoping to hopefully bring humans to Mars.

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Agreed,

Would be awesome if more instruments where exploring the Planet we are on.

we have deffinetly already mapped more things in space then we have in our oceans.
As well, a lot more research needs to be done on the life cycle that expands underground for thousands of miles, a network of bacteria roots and whole species we are un-aware of.
(probably great movie inspirations)

All the while if you look back at it all its a big system, it kinda has to be.
Because its all contained on 1 planet, floating in the Mostly empty void, equivalating a grain of sand in a desert the size of our Solar system.

All that chaos seems slow and peaceful, At least by our lifetimes, but things still happen so fast that its hard to understand using science.


Evolution is a slow process, at least as far as we know, as we are the only examples of it. Here on Earth

Keeping our planet Alive may not only mean at the very least keeping our unique evolution Process & story alive with it, but . . If we are indeed the only life in this universe . .

It would mean keeping alive not just our planet, but the sole observer this universe has in it.



Earth is the only place other then LEO, (Low Earth Orbit) that we can call home right now, meaning if something where to happen to it . . . you get my point, and now you have the main reason that Elon Musk is building such a massive rocket, after all, multiplanetary & Deep Space infrastructure will mean distances MUCH further then the moon, (avg. distance from earth 300k miles)

Versions of this rocket will be launched with the payload bay Converted into an extra large fuel tank, allowing for something SpaceX has yet to do on this scale, Orbital refueling,

The rocket spends its fuel getting out of Earths atmosphere, with whatever you wanna send further then LEO
docks with another Tanker Starship, and refuels.

This allows for our Species to go from inhabiting a single planet to being Multiplanetary.




The sustained part is important, meaning the rocket you are reading about in here, its this big Because its a workhorse, Capable of taking 100 people to mars or rlly anywhere they can go, even on earth.

The rocket engines and location are important though.

Mars may seems inhospitable, but compared to all planets in our solar system, its still our best choice for the Second planet we colonize.
The moon is also a great candidate, being 300k miles rather then 20 + million miles away.
but other then these 2 body's & earth, the only thing you can stand on without getting crushed on its surface is Mercury, which is a bit to close to the sun for us, and moons of the gas giants, (of which there is hundreds)

But those are like, 5x further then Mars, so that's kinda the appeal.

As for Normal everyday people & why they would wanna go to Mars,

I Assume same reason they wanna go anywhere else they wanna go.
in the next 1000 years, people could be just as likely to take a road trip as a Star Trip