re: Musk right on point as usual...

Cue up the deranged lefty lunatics sky screaming about Musk because their media overlords told them to hate him.

Ok thanks. Just was wondering.

here is my opinion on the idea of developing technology thru space exploration etc. there is nothing on mars worth sending people for, at all. The exploration of mars can be conducted just like it is now, with unmanned spacecraft and landers. The technology missing now is how to return from the surface back to earth, and the only reason to do that is to bring samples back to try and determine if life ever existed there. We know with certainty that there used to be plentiful surface water, so it is likely that there once was some sort of life. That would be an effort worth the expense.

the only reason to habitate the moon, permanently or temporarily is to use it as a low gravity way station for further exploration. And that further exploration should be to the asteroid belt between mars and Jupiter where riches exist beyond our wildest dreams. So that’s where we should go

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You do realize that the Apollo program is responsible for the adoption and commerical development of the microchip, right?

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That's not 100% accurate, or it's at least confusing the way you wrote it.

Apollo did not use "microchips". What's true is the Apollo guidance computer or AGC was among the first computers to use silicon based integrated circuit (IC) chips. However, it did not use "microchips" in the way we understand them today where the entire CPU is on a single chip. The AGC used a combination of magnetic-core memory and read-only rope memory. The read only rope memory used woven wires threaded through or around tiny ferrite cores. The way the "ropes" were energized produced the 0 and 1 logic of the AGC. The programs where physically hand wired. Interesting fact, they used seamstresses to feed the small rope wires because they had expertise in threading needles on sewing machines.

Microprocessors as we know them, an entire CPU on one chip, were available until the early 1970's several years after Apollo.

Are you saying an IC is not a microchip?

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Heavy government funding got us to the moon in the 60s.

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That and a group of scientists and engineers hired for their skills and minds and can do attitudes.

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here is my opinion on the idea of developing technology thru space exploration etc. there is nothing on mars worth sending people for, at all. The exploration of mars can be conducted just like it is now, with unmanned spacecraft and landers. The technology missing now is how to return from the surface back to earth, and the only reason to do that is to bring samples back to try and determine if life ever existed there.

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It's the tech and innovation needed to create the tech needed for a successful return that piques my interest.

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Are you saying an IC is not a microchip?

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I'll back track and say I was speaking of microprocessors vs microchips as I misread what you wrote.

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It's the tech and innovation needed to create the tech needed for a successful return that piques my interest.

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yes, exactly. Unmanned of course. We know with near certainty the composition of many asteroids that are reachable with current technology, what we can’t do is come back home with the booty, or even come back home at all. That’s where the money needs to be spent. The idea of doing that with people is lunacy…bread and circuses

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I'm more talking about the guys who just a few years ago called Musk a government grifter libtard POS, but now that they've been mentally cucked by a politician, they suck him off on every post he makes and every word he says. Kind of like the OP.


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Well, you might be right. Maybe he is a worthless POS. Let's find out:

Let's compare your net worth and accomplishments to his.

Then let the Board decide.

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Well Saint Tiger, you folded. I take that as a win for Old Gman....