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We already know of Elon Musk s dream for mankind to colonise Mars, right? So here s some good news for people who are into that idea - back in the 1940s, a scientist predicted that he would lead us there.
Well, sort of.
The manuscript for a book titled
The Mars Project has been shared on social media, with people making the link between one key line and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is at the forefront of the human effort to travel to the Red Planet.
Written by German scientist Wernher von Braun in 1948, the book is essentially a technical specification for the mechanics of life and society on Mars, explaining how it could work.
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SpaceX finally launched and successfully landed the latest full-scale prototype of its Mars-bound Starship rocket the first time it didn’t explode in the air or on the ground. Elon Musk finally has something to talk about in his Saturday Night Live monologue.
A new study found that humanity could go on after a massive, apocalyptic wipeout of the world population if only a few hundred survived. Stephen King likes the idea but that’s still too many characters for one book.
Using 200-year-old fecal samples, Dartmouth University researchers found that even the wealthiest and most educated people in New England in the early 1800s had tapeworms and other parasites and suffered from severe digestive diseases. An aging Paul Revere might have been heard in those days riding through town and crying, “The antacids are coming! The antacids are coming!”
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SpaceX boss Elon Musk has said the next major flight test of the Mars-bound Starship craft is imminent.
Starship SN11 is already on the launchpad at SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility in Texas, just two weeks after the previous SN10 prototype performed its own high-altitude test.
SpaceX does not typically announce Starship tests until a few minutes before they take place, citing the numerous variables that need to line up in order for it to go ahead.
These include hardware preparations, weather, regulatory approval and local road closures.
Cameron County is yet to issue any public notices for temporary closures of State Highway 4 and Boca Chica Beach, which need to be cleared for safety reasons.