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  1. A Physicist Destroy's Elon Musk's Mars Fantasy

    We are never going to Mars. And the billionaires selling you the dream are lying to your face. SUPPORT MY We are never going to Mars. And the billionaires selling you the dream are lying to your face. SUPPORT MY WORK: Buy a paid subscription to my newsletter at usermag.co            Support my work on Patreon:   / taylorlorenz      The idea of living on Mars has become one of Silicon Valley's biggest promises. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech billionaires claim humanity's future depends on becoming a multi-planetary species. But what if nearly everything you've been told about colonizing Mars is quite literally scientifically impossible?In this week's episode of Power User, I sat down with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever, a fantastic book that I absolutely loved, to break down the biggest myths about Mars colonization, SpaceX, AI, and Silicon Valley's vision of the future. We discuss why Mars is far more hostile than most people realize, the scientific barriers that make permanent settlement nearly impossible, and why billionaires continue selling this vision despite knowing it will never become reality. We cover:Why humans will literally NEVER live on MarsThe biggest scientific problems SpaceX can't solveThe truth about Elon Musk's Mars colony plansWhy Silicon Valley keeps selling science fiction as realityHow AI and space colonization became part of the same billionaire narrativeWhy investing in Earth may matter far more than escaping it: Buy a paid subscription to my newsletter at usermag.co            Support my work on Patreon:   / taylorlorenz      
    While I'd personally avoid words like 'impossible' or 'never' applied to humanity as a whole, I absolutely think these words can be applied to Musk and Bezos as is discussed here. And I think from the larger context of the discussion in this video, that even Taylor and Adam are more intending these words in this more limited context, given that they briefly discuss the possibility of some of these problems being solved with some far future technology. 

    I think some of the problems discussed here, especially the things involved in building a Mars colony, are not so much impossible in general but impossible specifically under capitalism. That is not discussed in this video, though they do briefly discuss colonialism. The focus of the video is on the scientific and technical problems of space travel. They bring up a lot of the problems I've discussed in some of my Pillowfort posts. I haven't read it, but if you want to get more detail on these issues, More Everything Forever by Adam Becker might be worth a read.

  2. We are never going to Mars. And the billionaires selling you the dream are lying to your face. SUPPORT MY WORK: Buy a paid subscription to my newsletter at usermag.co            Support my work on Patreon:   / taylorlorenz      The idea of living on Mars has become one of Silicon Valley's biggest promises. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech billionaires claim humanity's future depends on becoming a multi-planetary species. But what if nearly everything you've been told about colonizing Mars is quite literally scientifically impossible?In this week's episode of Power User, I sat down with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever, a fantastic book that I absolutely loved, to break down the biggest myths about Mars colonization, SpaceX, AI, and Silicon Valley's vision of the future. We discuss why Mars is far more hostile than most people realize, the scientific barriers that make permanent settlement nearly impossible, and why billionaires continue selling this vision despite knowing it will never become reality. We cover:Why humans will literally NEVER live on MarsThe biggest scientific problems SpaceX can't solveThe truth about Elon Musk's Mars colony plansWhy Silicon Valley keeps selling science fiction as realityHow AI and space colonization became part of the same billionaire narrativeWhy investing in Earth may matter far more than escaping it
    While I'd personally avoid words like 'impossible' or 'never' applied to humanity as a whole, I absolutely think these words can be applied to Musk and Bezos as is discussed here. And I think from the larger context of the discussion in this video, that even Taylor and Adam are more intending these words in this more limited context, given that they briefly discuss the possibility of some of these problems being solved with some far future technology. 

    I think some of the problems discussed here, especially the things involved in building a Mars colony, are not so much impossible in general but impossible specifically under capitalism. That is not discussed in this video, though they do briefly discuss colonialism. The focus of the video is on the scientific and technical problems of space travel. They bring up a lot of the problems I've discussed in some of my earlier posts. I haven't read it, but if you want to get more detail on these issues, More Everything Forever by Adam Becker might be worth a read.

  3. We are never going to Mars. And the billionaires selling you the dream are lying to your face. SUPPORT MY WORK: Buy a paid subscription to my newsletter at usermag.co            Support my work on Patreon:   / taylorlorenz      The idea of living on Mars has become one of Silicon Valley's biggest promises. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech billionaires claim humanity's future depends on becoming a multi-planetary species. But what if nearly everything you've been told about colonizing Mars is quite literally scientifically impossible?In this week's episode of Power User, I sat down with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever, a fantastic book that I absolutely loved, to break down the biggest myths about Mars colonization, SpaceX, AI, and Silicon Valley's vision of the future. We discuss why Mars is far more hostile than most people realize, the scientific barriers that make permanent settlement nearly impossible, and why billionaires continue selling this vision despite knowing it will never become reality. We cover:Why humans will literally NEVER live on MarsThe biggest scientific problems SpaceX can't solveThe truth about Elon Musk's Mars colony plansWhy Silicon Valley keeps selling science fiction as realityHow AI and space colonization became part of the same billionaire narrativeWhy investing in Earth may matter far more than escaping it
    While I'd personally avoid words like 'impossible' or 'never' applied to humanity as a whole, I absolutely think these words can be applied to Musk and Bezos as is discussed here. And I think from the larger context of the discussion in this video, that even Taylor and Adam are more intending these words in this more limited context, given that they briefly discuss the possibility of some of these problems being solved with some far future technology. 

    I think some of the problems discussed here, especially the things involved in building a Mars colony, are not so much impossible in general but impossible specifically under capitalism. That is not discussed in this video, though they do briefly discuss colonialism. The focus of the video is on the scientific and technical problems of space travel. They bring up a lot of the problems I've discussed in some of my earlier posts. I haven't read it, but if you want to get more detail on these issues, More Everything Forever by Adam Becker might be worth a read.

  4. We are never going to Mars. And the billionaires selling you the dream are lying to your face. SUPPORT MY WORK: Buy a paid subscription to my newsletter at usermag.co            Support my work on Patreon:   / taylorlorenz      The idea of living on Mars has become one of Silicon Valley's biggest promises. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech billionaires claim humanity's future depends on becoming a multi-planetary species. But what if nearly everything you've been told about colonizing Mars is quite literally scientifically impossible?In this week's episode of Power User, I sat down with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever, a fantastic book that I absolutely loved, to break down the biggest myths about Mars colonization, SpaceX, AI, and Silicon Valley's vision of the future. We discuss why Mars is far more hostile than most people realize, the scientific barriers that make permanent settlement nearly impossible, and why billionaires continue selling this vision despite knowing it will never become reality. We cover:Why humans will literally NEVER live on MarsThe biggest scientific problems SpaceX can't solveThe truth about Elon Musk's Mars colony plansWhy Silicon Valley keeps selling science fiction as realityHow AI and space colonization became part of the same billionaire narrativeWhy investing in Earth may matter far more than escaping it
    While I'd personally avoid words like 'impossible' or 'never' applied to humanity as a whole, I absolutely think these words can be applied to Musk and Bezos as is discussed here. And I think from the larger context of the discussion in this video, that even Taylor and Adam are more intending these words in this more limited context, given that they briefly discuss the possibility of some of these problems being solved with some far future technology. 

    I think some of the problems discussed here, especially the things involved in building a Mars colony, are not so much impossible in general but impossible specifically under capitalism. That is not discussed in this video, though they do briefly discuss colonialism. The focus of the video is on the scientific and technical problems of space travel. They bring up a lot of the problems I've discussed in some of my earlier posts. I haven't read it, but if you want to get more detail on these issues, More Everything Forever by Adam Becker might be worth a read.

  5. A Physicist Destroy's Elon Musk's Mars Fantasy

    We are never going to Mars. And the billionaires selling you the dream are lying to your face. SUPPORT MY We are never going to Mars. And the billionaires selling you the dream are lying to your face. SUPPORT MY WORK: Buy a paid subscription to my newsletter at usermag.co            Support my work on Patreon:   / taylorlorenz      The idea of living on Mars has become one of Silicon Valley's biggest promises. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech billionaires claim humanity's future depends on becoming a multi-planetary species. But what if nearly everything you've been told about colonizing Mars is quite literally scientifically impossible?In this week's episode of Power User, I sat down with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever, a fantastic book that I absolutely loved, to break down the biggest myths about Mars colonization, SpaceX, AI, and Silicon Valley's vision of the future. We discuss why Mars is far more hostile than most people realize, the scientific barriers that make permanent settlement nearly impossible, and why billionaires continue selling this vision despite knowing it will never become reality. We cover:Why humans will literally NEVER live on MarsThe biggest scientific problems SpaceX can't solveThe truth about Elon Musk's Mars colony plansWhy Silicon Valley keeps selling science fiction as realityHow AI and space colonization became part of the same billionaire narrativeWhy investing in Earth may matter far more than escaping it: Buy a paid subscription to my newsletter at usermag.co            Support my work on Patreon:   / taylorlorenz      
    While I'd personally avoid words like 'impossible' or 'never' applied to humanity as a whole, I absolutely think these words can be applied to Musk and Bezos as is discussed here. And I think from the larger context of the discussion in this video, that even Taylor and Adam are more intending these words in this more limited context, given that they briefly discuss the possibility of some of these problems being solved with some far future technology. 

    I think some of the problems discussed here, especially the things involved in building a Mars colony, are not so much impossible in general but impossible specifically under capitalism. That is not discussed in this video, though they do briefly discuss colonialism. The focus of the video is on the scientific and technical problems of space travel. They bring up a lot of the problems I've discussed in some of my Pillowfort posts. I haven't read it, but if you want to get more detail on these issues, More Everything Forever by Adam Becker might be worth a read.

  6. Why the Metaverse Actually Failed

    Is Silicon Valley actually making progress, or are they just breaking the world for […]

    https://astrocohors.me/2026/04/17/why-the-metaverse-actually-failed/ #TaylorLorenz