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March 20th, 2025
Wait-a-Minute!
Image credit: Barbara David
It’s a wait-a-minute moment as featured in a new issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
“Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk’s plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth” is the work of Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith, adapted from their book A City on Mars
Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? (Penguin Press).
This fully-illustrated comic explores the implications of space colonization.
“If the world’s most powerful nation, helped along by history’s most powerful rocket company, were to scrap international space law, it would have consequences that may echo for centuries,” writes Kelly Weinersmith, adjunct faculty member at Rice University, and Zach Weinersmith, creator of the popular webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Artwork credit: Zach Weinersmith
Signing of Outer Space Treaty.
Image credit: United Nations
Outer Space Treaty
“Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is intent on creating a one-million-person colony on Mars. As the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk also seems content to break anything that stands in his way—including potentially a Cold War era treaty that has kept humanity safe for over 50 years, the Outer Space Treaty (OST),” they write. “Musk’s rejection of international governance could have lasting implications for life on earth, and could augur a new era of geopolitical conflict.”
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“Wait-a-minute”
Image credit: Barbara David
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There’s enough strawmen in that argument to feed all the world’s ruminants.
Elon is the target of the current two-minute hate, and seems poised to hold that role for as long as the lunatics remain lunatics.
Utter drivel in that article. The OST was pushed by a bunch of communists afraid of losing the Moon race.
The Partial Test Ban Treaty resulted in the demise of Project Orion.
Armstrong and Aldrin should have claimed the Moon for the United States. We’d be a lot further along in space if they had.
Small people working for a university doing pointless hand wringing.
For all I care, tear up the Antarctic treaty and stop spending money there unless it is going to be exploited.