What will happen if Elon made it to the mars as he stated in the past?

If he stay there and doesn't come back, then fine

Conservative parties, globally, will be sad about losing his financial and shitstorm support. 🙄

I hear he will bring those genius indians

He will replace the indigenous people there.

he'd find a way back but be a lot less active on social media... and die faster... space travel kills your bone's vitamin D and speeds up permanent thinning... so lots more dr appts and physical therapy... and, given his age, a very brief life expectancy.

tbh... now i kinda want him to... im curious if his tone\perspective would dramatically change... like when a stubborn grandfather has a stroke and totally changes in order to 'cherish' the suddenly (esp by psychosomatic belief) uncertain and short remaining time left.

@Demolishun wait... you think that, if there are beings(as in more than 1) that survive on(or near) the surface of mars... elon musk would be able to physically overpower them???

i considered that perhaps you meant via extensive weaponry or a personal army coming with him... but im pretty sure you realise how direly each kg tached on reduces the likelihood of potential feasibility of successful travel.

@awesomeest you are right. He needs to bring the Zuck and Dick Rocket Bezos.

Why don‘t we send flat earthers to mars instead?

Nobody cares about Musk omg he's just scammer who closed paypal accounts for "fraud suspicion" and kept the money

Nothing. Nothing will happen. Milestones don't matter, the path taken to achieve them does. The impact of Musk's space program on everyday life results from the day-by-day progress of engineers and production lines, not from conquering planets.

I like Artemis because it generates interest in space research, not the other way around.

But much more importantly Unix time will cease to be universal because leap seconds are Earth-specific, so maybe, just maybe, we will finally adopt a truly technically motivated time measurement that actually counts time elapsed and not the seconds extrapolated from a clock that's constantly being fucked with to track the state of an N-body system.

(also the time measurement in question would probably have to count seconds from the perspective of a stationary reference observer outside the supercluster because between Earth and Mars relativistic time dilation is observable, which will generate additional problems billions of years down the line when Earth leaves the observable universe of the reference observer, but surely we won't be using the same unit of measurement by then)

@lorentz let's just do epoch time but from the big bang

@antigermgerm that doesn’t solve anything and just adds extra problems. We don’t know when the big bang happened exactly down to the second.

@lorentz time elapsed wouldn‘t work because it wouldn’t be the same for everyone on earth either

@Lensflare maybe we could start with that then. What are all those bookworms in university good for then?

@Lensflare It doesn't really have to be, all that's required is that it has a single unambiguous and monotonous value everywhere; when two observers meet in time and space, they must agree what time it is, and no other point in either of their lives should be at the same time.

That's why I suggested a reference observer far enough as to be unaffected by gravity, kinda like we measure reference voltage by comparing to a reference point far enough as to be unaffected by magnetic fields.

@antigermgerm since it wouldn’t solve any problem anyway, there is no point in trying to.

But, knowing humanity, most likely the reference point will be the center of some park in Massachusetts

@Lensflare you sure know how to change a lightbulb :3

Obviously the sheer size of storing time as an amount of seconds since bigbang would make it unpractical. It was the joke

@lorentz why not pyanyang?

@antigermgerm the size would be the least problematic part

@antigermgerm The age of the universe in seconds actually fits in a u64. Actually, even if you count miliseconds it would fit a couple times over.

If we wanted to be future-proof, on the scale of a u256 we could map most of time between the big bang and the heat death of the universe, and a u512 will probably be excessive forever no matter any improvements the granularity of our clocks.