Comments on: Sunspot update: Activity rises slightly in April

By: BLSinSC

BLSinSC — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:22:53 +0000

The “climate experts” fail to consider the sun’s role in our “climate” is a gross understatement of the ignorance of the “climate experts”! Our Ten Day Forecast is a JOKE! Even a DAILY forecast is highly suspect and rarely, unless the satellite images show a huge storm moving, accurate. BUT, the “climate experts” insist that if we don’t subject ourselves to their insanity and FUNDING REQUESTS, our World will end – soon – maybe – sometime in the future – next week – five years! Every prediction has been wrong, but the funding has been there. I recall an old black man talking about trouble – “Don’t start none, won’t be none”! That should apply to the “climate experts” – don’t FUND none, won’t BE none!!
And if these nitwits were SERIOUS about ending pollution and “fossil fuels”, they would be in CHINA and INDIA to TRY to shut down THEIR absolutely horrendous climate destroying factories! Or, maybe it’s just OUR part of the World that needs to shut down?!

By: Cotour

Cotour — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:13:25 +0000

If you want to go to Mars and try to develop it as a sustainable alternate planet for humanity, then do so if you have the vision, the determination the financing and the people willing to take the calculated risk. I am not proposing to not do it.

But when you as the primary driving force proposing the project cite an astronomical event that will happen in 1 BILLION years or more in the future as your primary motivation for doing so that does not really make sense.

There are a number of other more credible astronomical and earthly events that might rationally justify such a project.

Its just curious to me.

By: Boobah

Boobah — Tue, 06 May 2025 23:34:07 +0000

Elon’s point is that there’s a hard timer; just because it’s a long timer doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. At some point, either humanity leaves the planet or it ends.

It’s also worth noting that there are ways to prevent the sun from hitting higher temperatures or leaving the Earth to be destroyed by it, but anything like that is going to be more difficult than setting up an off-world colony.

And Elon won’t be around in a hundred or a thousand years. It doesn’t matter how much easier it may be for whoever is around then; he won’t be able to take advantage of the improved technology.

By: Cotour

Cotour — Tue, 06 May 2025 22:44:47 +0000

Some things just don’t add up sometimes.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/ecology/elon-musk-details-horrifying-reason-why-he-wants-to-colonize-mars-life-insurance-for-life/ar-AA1Eg3eP?ocid=BingNewsSerp

“So, eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun. The sun is gradually expanding, and so we do at some point need to be a multi-planet civilization because Earth will be incinerated,”

You might IMO argue that you have a credible existential concern about a life destroying asteroid on the level of the Chicxulub strike and that is a reason to launch a colonize Mars effort. But not because the sun at a minimum of at least 1 billion years will reconfigure itself and engulf the earth and incinerate it and all life. Maybe a solar flare direct hit event? You might even in a stretch argue that the climate is going to collapse due to human activity?

Nah, Antarctica has increased its ice cover grew by 108 gigatons over the last 5 years. https://nypost.com/2025/05/05/science/antarctic-ice-has-made-a-surprising-rebound-in-mass-scientists-say/

Does Elon think that technology would not be developed in the next 100 years? 1000 years? 5 or 10 thousand years that would make getting to and colonizing Mars or anywhere else much easier? In 100 thousand years?

Sometimes Elon does not make sense to me.