Artemis Is A Go!

AH BUT.,one day,there will be a mandatory human transport.we will have destroyed our -planet beyond restoration....They have already I.D. a planet with earth viability...many, many space miles away. TRANSPORT will be necessary for your grand children and great grand children to survive. jmo

Note that I said space exploration. Robots will be sent to Mars to create the infrastructure, to make it habitable for humans. They can work 24/7, do not need food or bathroom facilities. At this time, it appears that a Mars settlement will have to be subterranean. What better way, than to use robots to create an underground city.

Might even find cave systems underneath the lunar and Martian surfaces. Appears they can use ice deposits on the lunar poles to create fuel for journey to Mars.

Readers of this post might want to read this article.
now.solar/2026/01/22/in-2035-the-concept...-and-farms-to-suppo/

Here are the opening paragraphs for the above article:

Science and Technology
The year is 2035. The idea of ​​transforming Mars into a human home is no longer just a distant dream. A first large vehicle lands on the red surface, but it’s not a luxury space condominium. It’s not a ready-made habitat. It’s a flying construction kit, full of autonomous machines, designed to build the first underground city on Mars from scratch. Instead of human engineers descending the ramp, the first to set foot on Martian soil is a robotic exploration vehicle, ready to begin the most ambitious construction project in history.
This underground city on Mars doesn’t appear by magic, nor with a single spacecraft. Waves of cargo ships arrive, each bringing key components of the ecosystem: a solar farm spanning dozens of acres, a compact buried nuclear reactor, a tunnel boring machine that excavates and builds walls, a chemical plant that transforms ice into water, air, and fuel, and finally, the tools to assemble enclosed farms capable of feeding human colonists. Before anyone can live in this underground city on Mars, an army of robots builds energy, shelter, atmosphere, and food, using mostly what the planet itself provides.

Elon Musk is building rockets, boring machine and robots.

Elon Musk doesn't seem to be like other billionaires. He doesn't own mega mansions and yachts everywhere. It seems his passion is to create a human colony on Mars. Hopefully he lives to see it.

FredHayek wrote: Elon Musk doesn't seem to be like other billionaires. He doesn't own mega mansions and yachts everywhere. It seems his passion is to create a human colony on Mars. Hopefully he lives to see it.

perhaps, HE will not be around,but his many,many children will be...I do not think my inner self could survive without fresh ,cool breeze, the sun shining down on my face, the sound of a rushing river.,the smell of spring lilacs....I know about full spectrum lighting, it is not the same feel.

homeagain wrote: AH BUT.,one day,there will be a mandatory human transport.we will have destroyed our -planet beyond restoration....They have already I.D. a planet with earth viability...many, many space miles away. TRANSPORT will be necessary for your grand children and great grand children to survive. jmo

My children and grandchildren won't be worried about the planet dying, they will be more worried about the progressives/socialists/communists who are actively trying to reduce the population. Canada is leading the way with their MAID program. Then there's the debt spiral... thinking there will be any sort of significant colonization of other planets is silly imo. Who is going to fund it?

homeagain wrote: AH BUT.,one day,there will be a mandatory human transport.we will have destroyed our -planet beyond restoration....They have already I.D. a planet with earth viability...many, many space miles away. TRANSPORT will be necessary for your grand children and great grand children to survive. jmo

Or the population naturally declines, some counties might be combined, especially in the Midwest. Metropolises surrounded by robot farms like in BladeCenter. Less productive areas will return to the wild.