SpaceX employees have put their lives on the line to meet the aggressive pace of work that Chief Executive Elon Musk has demanded in pursuit of a Mars mission, according to a Reuters investigation.
The report documented over 600 previously undisclosed workplace injuries at SpaceX facilities since 2014, which Reuters said are only a part of the total number that is not publicly available.
Reuters examined injury logs and public records from the company’s six biggest facilities. SpaceX had not reported much of the injury data previously, in violation of regulatory standards. The investigation also included interviews with dozens of current and former SpaceX employees.
Among the injury data that Reuters gathered, over 100 workers experienced cuts or lacerations, 29 broke or dislocated bones, 17 had their hands and fingers crushed and nine had some form of serious head injury.
The unsafe workplace environment is a result of Musk’s view that SpaceX is on the front lines of saving humanity from a deteriorating planet, workers told Reuters.
It takes a special kind of dumb to think Mars would be easier to terraform than Earth.
the front lines of saving
humanityfrom a deteriorating planet
The front lines of saving himself and his rich friends from a deteriorating planet.
Tbh packing all the sociopaths on a rocket and blasting them to mars is the best chance of survival humanity has
A while back, I was reading about one of these billionaires talking about how they’d fly people to Mars, then they could work off their flight and living expenses by working for the company there. I wish I could see the looks on their faces when they find out that company scrip doesn’t buy flights back.
Also to give the rich an escape route when the ecosystem on this planet goes to shit.
I don’t typically wish undue agony on anyone, but if Musk and the other rich pieces of shit do end up escaping to Mars and leaving humanity to suffer trapped in the wasteland they created, then I genuinely hope that they experience the slowest, most torturous death that space has to offer.
If we can’t save the Earth from becoming inhabitable, what chance do we have of making Mars habitable? I doubt we’ll even see a self-sustaining colony off planet during our lifetimes. And it’ll cost a fortune to supply a colony on Mars, so my guess is that we’ll use a lunar colony or a space station to figure out the self-sustaining part before starting a permanent settlement on Mars.
And even then, it would still probably be the toughest kind of living humans have ever experienced.
the only realistic long-term lunar or martian base is underground. Luna has giant lava tubes we can use - on Mars it’ll probably just be tunnels, or filled in asteroid craters. there’s no way to prevent massive irradiation from cosmic rays or micrometeorite impacts otherwise. it’s not as sexy as surface-level bases though so you’ll never see it described as such.
not sure what the draw for lunar or martian bases is though, the minerals are far easier to get to in the asteroid belt.
This gives you a good picture of how a Mars colony under Musk would function. Aggressive objectives administratively set by an executive who has absolutely nothing constructive to contribute to those objectives, but holds not only the livelihoods, but literally the lives of his employees in his hands.
Except on Mars they won’t be employees, but indentured servants. No rights, no regulations. You’ll be lucky if you’re given enough oxygen to survive.
Oxygen is not a right, but a luxury, it is not the responsibility of MuskMarsCorp to provide adults with oxygen.
Show a little self responsibility.
Edit: I didn’t think I needed an /s, but I guess I was wrong.
My statement was loosely based on something some Nestlé fuckface said about water.
Bold of the media to assume Space X is gonna get anywhere near Mars any time soon.
Didn’t he say 2024 for boots on Mars? How’s that going?
About as well as the cybertruck?
Colonizing Mars during this century seems so braindead to me. There are lots of issues, such as:
-Lack of substantial life support resources- it would be difficult to make oxygen or water from the elements on Mars.
-High surface radiation levels mean structures need to be underground
-It takes a very long time to shuttle supplies between Earth and Mars, and it would be unfathomably expensive.
-The tendency for humans to lose their minds in isolation means we need to use robots, develop “hypersleep”, or build an elaborate and expensive base to keep humans entertained.
-The red planet is hostile to electronics. There are miles and miles of dust to clog up devices, and high wind speeds could damage above ground structures. Wind+dust=static, which is the arch nemesis of computer technology.
Let’s start with solving climate change, living on the moon, or mining asteroids and see how it goes.
You forgot radiation in between Earth and Mars. Even if we can address things planet side, there’s a long journey to cover. Also, extended periods in space leave bodies weak when they return to gravity; astronauts are carried out on cushions when they land, but there won’t be anyone to do that on Mars.
We definitely need to get moon operations down first.
