RedPlanetLive -- Dr. Robert Zubrin

Tune in on Thursday, September 19th (5pm PT / 8pm ET) for an in-depth conversation with Robert Zubrin, President of Mars Society. Dr. Robert Zubrin will break down the nationwide campaign urging Congress to require NASA to create a plan for landing humans on Mars within 10 years.

[@donaldclifford5763]

Dr. Zubrin in Mars Society discourse on KZbin has emphasized the need for quadruple redundancy for all mission critical space activities. On earth scale and networks create tremendous efficiencies, but also vulnerabilities. Redundancies on earth will become ever more important as reliance on scale and networks continues to increase. Operating all living systems in space and on Mars, including power systems , including nuclear power, under extreme conditions requiring quadruple redundancy should coincide with earth based system vulnerabilities, emphasizing hardening and robustness of design. Solar flares on earth are a vulnerability, but even more so in space and on Mars. Creating a culture of hardened designs and redundancy should benefit earth for safety against catastrophic failures.

[@RussTillling]

Interesting conversation thank you from the UK 🤩

[@stephenolson532]

Never gonna happen the earthlings are headed down the 🚽🚽🚽

[@CEShoen]

The Mars society Philippines?

[@adrianfox7972]

Trump might make that speech and Elon Musk in a much better situation with him nowdays than his first administration. Elon wants to lessen the regulations that make every big project take ages because of red tape. Elon Musk was complaining that he had to pay a fine of over a hundred thousand dollars for letting water that cooled the landing pad spill on the ground. If he didn't pay the rediculous fine, then there would have been no more launches allowed. Bureaucrats now days do make anything happen they often do the opposite with any positive venture.

[@RussTillling]

Is it Congress holding-up funding and reform of the FAA?

[@Vaeldarg]

Just ask OceanGate what happens when you think you can just full-steam ahead without making safety and regulatory compliance a priority. Elon can complain all he wants, but the fact is he brought those pains on himself by thinking he could go without deluge system at all in the first place. He's not some genius engineer as he portrays.

[@adrianfox7972]

@@Vaeldarg You can guarantee most of these issues slowing things down wouldn't have happened if Elon was still the left wing darling. The moment he didn't side with them everything started going against him. They wouldn't even give his company credit for bringing electric cars to the masses any more. Dumb politics gets into all these agencies and ruins things.

[@mpoelsma7561]

Are there chapters in Europe, Netherlands?

[@directorjaws]

The Mars Society has gone downhill and should be reinvented. Sad.

[@donaldclifford5763]

It's people.