The NASA / JPL Thread -or- Space Porn

[Macheath]

Truly the Fyre Festival of space colonization.

[nynnja]

Truly the Fyre Festival of space colonization.

I knew it was vaporware, but damn it would've been cool. Probably would have had the first internationally broadcast death in television history. :sadangel:

But the cracks had already started to show. In 2014, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) produced a damning report on the feasibility of the mission. Among a number of criticisms, the report noted that within about 68 days, the first settlers would suffocate and die as their habitats failed.