The Atlantic's Shannon Stirone is catching tremendous hell for pointing out that Mars is not habitable.
In the video, Musk is seen reading a passage from Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot. The book, published in 1994, was Sagan’s response to the famous image of Earth as a tiny speck of light floating in a sunbeam—a shot he’d begged NASA to have the Voyager 1 spacecraft take in 1990 as it sailed into space, 3.7 billion miles from Earth. Sagan believed that if we had a photo of ourselves from this distance, it would forever alter our perspective of our place in the cosmos.
Musk reads from Sagan’s book: “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate.”
But there Musk cuts himself off and begins to laugh. He says with incredulity, “This is not true. This is false––Mars.”
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Mars has a very thin atmosphere; it has no magnetic field to help protect its surface from radiation from the sun or galactic cosmic rays; it has no breathable air and the average surface temperature is a deadly 80 degrees below zero. Musk thinks that Mars is like Earth? For humans to live there in any capacity they would need to build tunnels and live underground, and what is not enticing about living in a tunnel lined with SAD lamps and trying to grow lettuce with UV lights? So long to deep breaths outside and walks without the security of a bulky spacesuit, knowing that if you’re out on an extravehicular activity and something happens, you’ve got an excruciatingly painful 60-second death waiting for you. Granted, walking around on Mars would be a life-changing, amazing, profound experience. But visiting as a proof of technology or to expand the frontier of human possibility is very different from living there. It is not in the realm of hospitable to humans. Mars will kill you.
If anything, the video is worse than Stirone makes it out to be. The smugness of Musk, the sycophancy of the interviewer, the "and I think Carl Sagan would agree with that."
Elon #Musk channels Dr. Carl #Sagan famous saying about the Pale Blue Dot pic.twitter.com/CybqAzmM9i
— John Carlos (@JohnCarlos) February 14, 2021
Four days of consistent trolling, threats and comments and I’ve just about had enough. Taking a little break. I’ll be back soon. Please send all complaints and hate mail to P.O. Box #4 Mars is a Hellhole c/o https://t.co/dm767e5OUs
— Shannon Stirone đź’€ (@shannonmstirone) March 1, 2021
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