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Very true!

Chances are he's working on that, though... (His sat-fleet business just came out of the woodwork again, yesterday...

Why not both? Leaks have strongly suggested Musk is going to use in-orbit LEO refueling AND ISRU to get 100MT down per mission.

... But there is one big question mark about power for ISRU. Looks like he's going to have to haul either a mission solely loaded with solar equipment or he has to get his hands on a nuclear plant somehow... Or land robotic mission 2 mars years in advance before people set foot on the ground. Power requirements for ISRU are pretty huge. Geothermal would be cool, but we can dream.

There is. Check out Nasa's InSight mission

I quote ___Rocket___ from r/spacex subreddit:

Mars One is dead in the water. Forget them.

Always puzzled me, thought it worked using capillary pressure, but probably the ink is too viscous for that to work.

From experience I know the tip can easily scatter in very tiny fragments. (when you use a fine tip, that is. I prefer +very+ fine tips :-)

of course, it's all relative. I bet there are bigger contamination sources. And in zero g, a lot of debris ends up in the filers of the fans

Oh, that'd be nice.

/pokes fireplace, adjusts blanket over knees:/

"Back in the days, it was a tradition, you know.... When we caught 'em trolls, we'd chuck 'em right outa the airlock, I tellya!"

"Aaaah... Those were the days, I remember all these hills were red...."

/cackles dementedly/

that ballpoint pen story is repeated always as an example, sadly (or happily, depends how you look at it)  it is not true.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Also, I guess in reality astronauts don't mind floating around after getting used to it. in the 50's authors thought free fall would be very impractical to work i (it is, of course) but a hand/footrail here and there when you really need torque etc is probably much better than having magnets on your feet (imagine you float and every time you come close to the walls your feet go 'clunk' and there you are again, wriggling to get loose, and when you do the reaction to the wriggling forces you applied causes you to cannonball to the other side of the module. Clunk (rinse, repeat  )

My mind just melted trying to figure that out

Josh's answer made it even worse, I tried imagining flying in such an environment... Those poor flies won't know what happens to them, center or outer circumference of centrifuge will have different pseudogravity, wow, try to fly in that kind of environment....

Wait, so you can register, and you *are* then registered even before you get a green light for posting privileges? you can then enter stuff...  Is than not a huge security risk?

That sounds like a golden opportunity for spammers... And if you get crawled, and the crawler sees spam or malware links, what's keeping Google et al from flagging NM as a security risk?

(And al the other fluxbb bb's too?)

He makes them with a goal... Mars. Maybe that's the part that inspires people.

He's not a super talented speaker (He's a clear speaker, don't get me wrong, he's just not a "I-can-easily-whip-any-group-of-audience-into-a-cheering-crowd-speaker"), otherwise I'm sure he'd already have come with a speech akin to 'we chose to go to the Moon, not because it is easy'