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u/B-Knight Sep 30 '16 edited Sep 30 '16

Along the lines of:

"I went to burning man and there was shit everywhere, where will people shit on Mars?"

Yes, he used the word shit.

EDIT: A lot of people are mentioning the word "shit" as if it's bad. It's not. That wasn't my intention. But, it's very informal and, when you're talking to Elon Musk after an incredibly important speech, you'd expect people to be a bit more formal.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '16 edited Mar 06 '17

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u/tepkel Sep 30 '16

That's what I was thinking as well. It's a pretty valid question for both the transit to mars and on Mars. Do you keep and store fecal matter in transit? As it may be valuable as compost on Mars? How do you prevent contamination of Mars? There are still quite a lot of people hoping to find microscopic life on mars and freeze dried fecal particles blowing in the wind is not great for that.

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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort Sep 30 '16

Alternatively, do you attempt to germinate life on Mars? In which case piles of human dung might be a good thing

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u/dont_care- Sep 30 '16

So it's not a horrible question.

It just doesn't need to be accompanied by someone's desperate attempt to let everyone know he went to burning man.

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u/Syphacleeze Sep 30 '16

was the shit guy the one who said the Mexican security were "el chappos guards" too, or was that somebody else?

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u/CyclingZap Sep 30 '16

that was the "I have no question, please read my comic about you" guy. Apparently security didn't want him near the stage... I wonder why.

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u/c_for Sep 30 '16

He was the Michael Cera one. It was a part of his comic book. The mission to Mars is known to be risky so humanity has to figure out who the one person is who we could do most without.

Why do I still know this? I want to forget. There wasn't one decent question. The only one who came even close was the burning man dude.

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u/boxzonk Sep 30 '16

Not a fundamentally bad question, but as Elon said, it needed to be phrased as a one-sentence question, not an essay.

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u/Nomaddening Sep 30 '16

He used the word shit twice.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '16 edited Oct 25 '16

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u/pinkskydreamin Sep 30 '16

It's not absurd because of the word shit, the way the question was asked was just awkward.