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SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years.
If those all land safely, then crewed missions are possible in four years. If we encounter challenges, then the crewed missions will be postponed another two years.
It is only possible to travel from Earth to Mars every two years, when the planets are aligned. This increases the difficulty of the task, but also serves to immunize Mars from many catastrophic events on Earth.
No matter what happens with landing success, SpaceX will increase the number of spaceships traveling to Mars exponentially with every transit opportunity. We want to enable anyone who wants to be a space traveler to go to Mars! That means you or your family or friends – anyone who dreams of great adventure.
Eventually, there will be thousands of Starships going to Mars and it will a glorious sight to see! Can you imagine? Wow.
The fundamental existential question is whether humanity becomes sustainably multiplanetary before something happens on Earth to prevent that, for example nuclear war, a supervirus or population collapse that weakens civilization to the point where it loses the ability to send supply ships to Mars.
One of my biggest concerns right now is that the Starship program is being smothered by a mountain of government bureaucracy that grows every year. This stifling red tape is affecting all large projects in America, which is why, for example, California has spent ~$7 billion dollars and several years on high-speed rail, but only has a 1600 ft section of concrete to show for it!
While I have many concerns about a potential Kamala regime, my absolute showstopper is that the bureaucracy currently choking America to death is guaranteed to grow under a Democratic Party administration. This would destroy the Mars program and doom humanity.
It cannot happen. Your help would be much appreciated. This is a fork, maybe the fork, in the road of human destiny.
Punting predictions for humans to Mars decades into the future is, in my view, largely political and not based on science and engineering.
If humans make in in the next 10 years, which is reasonably likely, it has to be SpaceX doing it. No other game in town - maybe the Chinese with a crash program but they don't seem to have the intent to do anything like that. To some this is politically unacceptable. Musk cannot be allowed to win.
By predicting absurdly long timetables, they hope to make it true. They want to give NASA and the broader public sector time to take control of the process and lead the mission, so that Mars is run by a bureaucracy that is broadly on their side - rather than some anarchic frontier where tech bros can build stuff without someone around to tie them up with regulations.
for everyone time is the most valuable thing, and making money essentially is saving you lots of time for the future.
I made all things very complicated in the last few years and the result is predicable - I losed lots of money.
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The path to creating wealth :
1. Budget
2. Buy assets
3. Pay off debt
4. Stay healthy
5. Keep learning
6. Increase income
7. Invest 20–25% of income
8. Don't upgrade your lifestyle
9. Upgrade your circle of friends
10. Create multiple streams of income
What else to add?
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Nothing kills a man faster than his own thoughts. The hardest prison to escape is your own mind.
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According to Steve Jobs, there is one single thing that "separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them."
It isn't their intelligence, their work ethic, or their financial means.
It's something much more simple...
When Jobs was only 12 years old he opened the phone book and placed a call to Bill Hewlett (the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard).
On the call Jobs asked if Bill happened to have any spare computer parts he could have for a project he was working on––building a frequency counter.
Not only did Bill have the parts, he gave Steve a job that summer working on the assembly line at his company.
To quote Jobs, "I was in Heaven."
So what did Jobs do that was so special? (Besides calling the co-founder of a computer company when he was just 12 years old).
He asked.
Yep, that's all.
So many of us are held back by our own self-doubt or unwillingness to ask that opportunities we never even know are available pass us by.
A simple question I've used for years that has served me well:
Will I be any worse off than am I now by asking for this opportunity?
If the answer is no, which I'd argue it almost always is, ––then you've got nothing to lose.
If you're too afraid to ask, you're too afraid to fail.
And without failure, you'll never grow.
Just take action. Just ask.
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