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Zea_mays

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I forgot to elaborate on the dangers of photon propulsion. If some private individual or group with access to this type of technology decides to just launch something like this for fun, it's not like any punishment on Earth will be able to rectify the damage. It will be far too late to contain the damage.

(For reference, it takes around 7-9 months to get to Mars using current technology).
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Powerful Laser Could Blast Spacecraft to Mars in 3 Days (Video)
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It sounds like science fiction, but it's eminently possible, researchers say: Robotic spacecraft could get to Mars after a journey of just three days.

The key to making this happen is photon propulsion, which would use a powerful laser to accelerate spacecraft to relativistic speeds, said Philip Lubin, a physics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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This method could propel a 220-lb. (100 kilograms) robotic craft to Mars in just three days, Lubin said. A crewed vehicle would take a bit longer to get to the Red Planet — maybe a month or so, he said.

Ultimately, Lubin would like to use the technology to send small probes into interstellar space.

"Within about 25 light-years of the Earth, there are actually quite a few potential exoplanets and habitable things to visit," Lubin said at the NIAC symposium. "There are many targets to choose from."
https://www.space.com/32026-photon-propulsion-mars-three-days.html

Of course, then we have "space tourism":

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Japanese billionaire to fly eight members of the public on SpaceX moon flight

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa announced on Tuesday that he will choose eight members of the public to join him on a trip around the moon, scheduled to fly on SpaceX’s Starship rocket in 2023.

“I’m inviting you to join me on this mission,” Maezawa said in a video.

Maezawa, who announced the mission in September 2018 alongside SpaceX founder Elon Musk, said that the plan has evolved from flying artists on a trip to lunar orbit.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/02/yusaku-maezawa-opens-up-public-seats-on-spacex-starship-moon-flight.html


How many dystopian science fiction films and novels warn us about elites who have access to such technology in order to fly to utopian colonies while the rest of humanity and non-human life act as slaves to sustain the lifestyles of the techno-elites?

But Western civilization junkies are actually inspired by these types of fictional stories and want to bring them into reality!!! Again, if Elon Musk, who possesses launch bases for spacecraft and the actual rockets themselves, decides to just go off into space and do whatever evil he wants, who is going to stop him? The US government actually gives him contracts to develop his spacecraft, since it is more profitable to outsource everything to the "private sector". In the processes, this has given private individuals possession of technology even more dangerous than nuclear weaponry.


Also, Elon Musk spends a lot of money on PR to make it seem like he's a cool guy or whatever. Of course, it should be no surprise to us that he comes from a family who owned an apartheid emerald mine:
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/how-elon-musks-family-came-to-own-an-emerald-mine-2018-2
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/elon-musk-sells-the-family-emeralds-in-new-york-2018-2

Unfortunately, he and people like him have spent so much money on pro-space propaganda that even anti-Musk people still praise space colonization, rather than stop and reflect on the consistently ignoble character of the types of people who are promoting space colonization....
https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/lqbr2t/congratulations_nasa_for_landing_their_5th_rover/