space exploration

Time to Say Goodbye to the ISS and Set Our Sights on Mars - x Future Tech x

Time to Say Goodbye to the ISS and Set Our Sights on Mars

Honor its legacy by moving on, not clinging to it like a security blanket. Deorbit the damn thing. Let’s go to Mars—or at least somewhere that doesn’t feel like a glorified hamster wheel.

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Elon’s Mars Math: 20 Windows to Nowhere - x Future Tech x

Elon’s Mars Math: 20 Windows to Nowhere

10 to 20 windows is less a roadmap and more a wishlist scribbled on a napkin—ambitious, sure, but I’ll believe it when I’m sipping Martian gin instead of choking on LA smog.

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Elon’s Rocket Hop: Space Travel or Billionaire Bingo? - x Future Tech x

Elon’s Rocket Hop: Space Travel or Billionaire Bingo?

Imagine a world where Starship’s zipping between continents daily. LA to Shanghai in 20 minutes. London to Sydney before your tea’s cold. It’s a sci-fi wet dream, sure, but then reality kicks in: the cost, the noise, the inevitable lawsuits from some farmer whose cows freak out every time a rocket screams overhead.

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