Comments on: Gundam series original creator says “humans will never be able to live in space” after exploring the idea of space colonies for 20 years

By: Average inteligence

Average inteligence — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:30:00 +0000

In reply to JoeD.

You mean before or after Elon delivers full self-driving… when was that deadline?
five years ago?

By: Akimbojoe

Akimbojoe — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:07:17 +0000

The man is right. Martian colonies will never attain true self reliance. They will always be dependent on the Earth for water. Even if they farm moisture or mine it from permafrost, the atmosphere that could hold onto it has long since blown away. Any sort of water cycle you could establish would be a losing game. To say nothing of the toxic nature of the regolith. The only way to keep such a colony going would be to constantly siphon resources from somewhere, Earth or meteors. Maybe you could split water to make fuel? Water will be a precious resource on that planet.

Maybe you might build a feasible colony on a moon of Jupiter, using energy generated by tidal forces with it’s mother world. Some are mentioning Venus’s “floating cities” concept, using buoyancy to float cities within a habitable zone. The idea is intriguing but the long term survival of such a colony seems dubious.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:32:50 +0000

I have 2 words that greatly support Mr. Domino’s stance. “Muscle Atrophy”. Unless we develop some kind of gravity manipulation technology or some way to safely supercharge muscle development and retention, long term habitation of less-than-Earth gravity would quickly lead to drastic detrimental changes in body development. First and foremost, the lack of use of our lower extremities to support our weight or move us about our environment would leave us with useless little baby-legs. Circulation and spinal issues would accompany them.
Also, folks should rethink their hero worship of Musk’s contribution to space exploration. Rockets aren’t exactly an intricately complex form of science, (it’s literally us riding a tube filled with explosions until gravity lets go.) He didn’t start the company, he bought his way in, is barely tolerated by the actual research and development teams within the company, and I highly doubt he’s involved at all with the only important part of rocketry… Trajectory mathematics. I’d sooner put Terrance Howard in charge… Less complaints about nose cone pointiness.

By: Nightquaker

Nightquaker — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:54:43 +0000

A moron from an outdated, stagnant country that is Japan, trying to predict the future and its innovations.
Yeah, right. It’s like asking a hobo for financial advice.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:19:24 +0000

This is why we are improving unmanned robots and AI. Robotics will soon replace gas powered machinery. We are simply waiting for the mind that will design a plan to leave this planet. We have the tools to do such a feat

By: Edo Cebobebo

Edo Cebobebo — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:51:02 +0000

A cartoonist who pairs slow political drama with robot toys for kids is telling career scientists what they can and cannot do? In the approximated words of Char Aznable: “Your soul is too weighed-down by gravity.”

By: John

John — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:26:27 +0000

Very true about space and the simplistic thoughts of living on mars or the moon. It’s a waste of our natural resources and we should be investing in earth and cleaning the mess we made here.

By: Dice Ius

Dice Ius — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:19:32 +0000

This is why I never liked Gundam and Code Geass is just better.

By: Aaa

Aaa — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:02:19 +0000

JoeD you’re a fucking idiot. Musk doesnt design or build anything himself. Kill yourself you waste of fucking oxygen.

By: Jackey

Jackey — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:53:23 +0000

We are already living in space on a rock hurling indefinitely to the unknown void of deep space.

By: Victor

Victor — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:44:10 +0000

I agreed with the creator of gundam the same mind set i had its imposible to make a colony its imposible to coexist in space maintnamce cost repair prevent accident also the conflict of humanity through history wars never end and the cost is inmense as he said how they gona make space stations and tecnology to travel space in longer distance how they gona resuply . This is the same ishue with starwars.

By: You guys

You guys — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:16:29 +0000

Musk didn’t build shit either, he hired people and overworked them for his shit dream. Go suck musk’s balls you musk fanboy shit heads.

By: Phu

Phu — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:30:00 +0000

So many good ideas have come from sci fi writers and creators that “scientists” have stolen and implemented for there own. They’re all just ideas and let’s face it almost all fiction writings have much better ideas than cookie cutter scientists that have zero creative freedom. They must follow rubrics and always face ridicule for fringe ideas bla blah blah obvious words blah you’re so smart for being disagreeable.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:53:45 +0000

Living is space and living on a planet are two different things. Mars may be hostile but it has the resources that will allow slow colonization. Regolith, ice, Vallis Mariners, 3 miles deep trench provides radiation protection from all but above, easier access to material.

By: James Mulholland

James Mulholland — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:48:44 +0000

Colonies on Mars? No harm to any local habitats. No flora and no fauna, no habitats to harm. Eliminates a lot of red tape. Now we just need the technology. Going to Mars and living on Mars are 2 very different things. Getting there is most certainly feasible, living there will require abundant resources. I imagine the terraforming, creating a space that has long term viability; this will be done with automation, AI, and robots. The first Mars settlement will likely consist of robots.

By: Robin Lewis

Robin Lewis — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:35:27 +0000

Joe no one said musk yet you’re already on your knees preparing to give him the full package, hes stating that for the everyday man space living is rather unrealistic with what we have today, he’s being pessimistic but he’s not wrong.

By: Treasure Marie Denise Jackson

Treasure Marie Denise Jackson — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:35:24 +0000

To be fair, he’s not wrong about how we may never be able to. Mars Is not only millions of miles away, but it is a huge planet that does not have resources. We’d need to bring our own. Can we terraform it? Possibly, but it’d take a long time and there’d be many issues with it. The air quality it very poor, and asteroids are known to hit the planet regularly. We’d need a sort of protective greenhouse.

The Venus lab is… Oh dear, Venus is so hot that it can melt lead. How are we gonna build a lab there? How are we gonna live there without an ice hot cooler that is incapable of melting under the heat? A lab on Venus? A genius can have a concept, but if that concept hits an absolute roadblock, it may not come to fruition. Not everyone’s dreams will come true.

I think people here are offended because he called them “simpletons,” and people are very defensive today. However, while I get how people could see it happening, it’ll take millions of years before we could move there.

Also, Earth is a lustrous environment, moving to Mars as a permanent colony is like moving to an inhospitable desert, one that it’ll take millions of years to become hospitable.

We should work on our environment instead of such foreign areas. Venus is too hot to host any labs, and floating cities in It’s cloud layer? That’s closer to the sky which is closer to the sun depending on the angle of which the planet is facing the sun, which means that since it’s so hot it can melt lead, then the floating cities will melt. People who would needs heck tons of protective gear would be up there and FRYING. The highest amount of melanin is pitch black skin (literally)with so much Melanin that it literally shines grey in lighting. Those people with that high of melanin have almost 0 chance of skin cancer. Those are the south Sudanese and it’d HAVE to be them to go there because there skin is so dark that they high amounts of melanin to protect them Anyone with albinism (because they have 0 protective melanin) would die instantly. They’d fry. They’d need a new kind of sunscreen to handle it. We can’t survive in temperatures that melt lead. We’d need an ultimate shield and we’d need to stay alive long enough to build it and we’d need to be able to send something that won’t melt under the intense heat.

The most likely one is the moon, but the moon is also hit with massive asteroids. It doesn’t have a lot of oxygen and we’d have to plant trees, manually care for them, use fertilizer that allows it to grow, and the moon would have to be in the right position so that it’d be facing the sun for the tree to survive and make oxygen. It is a LARGE amount of work, a lot of money, and would take a lot of resources.

Colonies may be possible, but you need to support colonies. We also have advanced nutritional needs. Protein, Vitamin D, calories, etc. We’ve never seen a plant grow on other planets.

By: Noodaaa

Noodaaa — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:33:18 +0000

So, he highlights all the issues that have, thus far, kept us from being a space-faring species. But he fails to take account for human ingenuity.

The question is.. Will we be able to colonize space before extinction?

By: paukun

paukun — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:57:43 +0000

That’s the problem you can’t think realistically out of your own scope. Besides there’s no barrier to make Gundam where people are taking commercial travels and have space immigration. All you need is an imagination with some realistic inspiration. And that’s where his age is coming to him. He already did space magic somewhat believable in Gundam. And yet can’t fathom the possibility for commercial space travel. The only thing I would agree about that humans can’t in space is simply human greed.

By: Jason Maness

Jason Maness — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:50:51 +0000

This is why every single person who is seriously talking about space exploration, manned missions to Mars and future colonization; are say “we need to get back on the moon to develop techniques, technology and materials.”.

By: Jason Maness

Jason Maness — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:48:18 +0000

This is why ever single person who is seriously talking about space exploration, manned missions to Mars and future colonization; are say “we need to get back on the moon to develop techniques, technology and materials.”.

By: Nick Hurgh

Nick Hurgh — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:20:57 +0000

Such hubris,who is he to think he is arbiter of mankind’s destiny? Stick to drawing cartoons for children.

By: D Smith

D Smith — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:58:34 +0000

It’d be a lot more feasible to start colonizing Mars if we did so with the intention that the first people on Mars won’t be coming back to Earth. We as a society aren’t ready for that discussion, though.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:46:15 +0000

He does have a point when you think about it in the grand scheme of things. There’s tons of logistics from finances and resources that have to be taken into account when it comes to colonization into other planets. The same had to be said when it came to colonization for other countries centuries before; if you go into another country without a proper plan when it comes to colonizing, not only will you not be able to handle the resources, you won’t even know where to find them or what they are. It’s the same deal in space. So yeah I have to agree

By: qualitystreison

qualitystreison — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:34:26 +0000

Tomino is not a comic writer, and he’s talking about rockets that, say, don’t unexpectedly explode on a regular basis when commercially manufactured.

By: Jamie McGaughey

Jamie McGaughey — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:40:32 +0000

we cant even live peacefully here now. we’ll never be able to pull something like that off. it would be a bare wasteland 1st from us(humans) destroying each other 1st

By: Musk

Musk — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:00:09 +0000

simpleton huh
How many rockets this guy made in real life BTW? Not drawings, rockets that actually fly

By: Niklas

Niklas — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:52:49 +0000

Honestly, as someone who desperately wants space travel as I’ve been a Star Wars fan longer than I have a Gundam fan…it’s fantasy. Both the stories and the ideas of commercialized space travel. It’s all hypothetical in reality and what we’ve done as a species makes me feel like we probably shouldn’t try and expand into the universe unless the Earth is literally Wall-E level fucked or there are genuine overpopulation concerns.

By: Ozan

Ozan — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:38:40 +0000

Wow, I was expecting some profound take like we will not survive as a species long enough but this is jus waiting to be proven wrong and become one of those quotes.

What a dumb take

By: Jamison Sinclair

Jamison Sinclair — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:09:36 +0000

You should stop talking.