Posted on 09/26/2016 10:15:24 AM PDT by samtheman
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND Elon Musk to reveal next step in mission to build city on Mars
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
In spite of the movie, “The Martian”, man is not optimized for life on Mars or on any planet other than Earth. Years of adaptation to the environment on Earth have guaranteed that.
Life on another planet will not work, for many reasons, not the least of which will be missing green grass, blue skies, soft breeze, rain, snow, lush fields of wheat. Get it?
Colonizing Mars will be a crime against the children who will be conceived there. It will deprive those children of their terrestrial heritage and force them to live in an alien environment.
No one has the right to do that, but in a world where abortion gets protected by the law, I know danmed well that those children will not be given a choice.
That is correct. The current Martian atmosphere is close to vacuum. I was thinking of enclosed habitats. You can pump in Martian CO2 to get oxygen.
Yup.
And he’s well along on those.
You’re kidding but if there are still “greens” here on earth when we are ready to terraform Mars you can bet they will be against changing any of that “pristine” wasteland.
Mars has no molten core, thus no magnetic field to shield the planet from our sun’s solar wind. Because of that, it can never retain an earth-like atmosphere.
Perhaps one day humans will figure out how to restart the planet’s internal dynamo, which would create a magnetic field. It’s the only way to build a breathable atmosphere on Mars.
Dont let muslims in or urban feral blacks.
Just so they don’t move Sheila Jackson-Lee’s flag...
I never said anything about not trying to go to Mars.
Am just curious why such a "great mind" isn't asked (or, that I have heard, never offers), ideas about "real life" things happening in the here and now.
Maybe it's like asking a painter to do a sculpture. Just not his thing.
LMAO That one never gets old. What a ditz she is.
Without addressing the lack of an electromagnetic field to protect us from cosmic radiation, living underground would be the only feasible option.
At least for the considerable future.
We are not going to and returning from Mars this century. Will we make attempts? Yes we will. But Mars aren’t no Moon. The fastest spacecraft launched from Earth was NASA’s New Horizons mission, which is en route to Pluto. In January 2006, the probe left Earth at 36,000 mph. The time it would take such a probe to get to Mars would be, on average: 3,888 hours (162 days). And although astronauts have been on the ISS longer, they are resupplied on a regular basis and that wouldn’t be possible for a Mars mission.
Oh, it’s got plenty of carbon dioxide, that’s not going to be a problem.
Your problem is going to be the lack of precipitation and year-round freezing temperatures. Think of farming in Antarctica without the snow.
“Think of farming in Antarctica without the snow.”
Seed the place with cold loving extremophiles from Earth.
Or not. Mars may already have a thriving ecosystem of its own extremophiles.
Love much of what Musk is doing, but any colony on Mars will only serve for resources extraction for building space-based colonies. Colonies NOT based on planets make far more sense than colonies based on planets.
That’s nice, but we can’t eat bacteria.
“That’s nice, but we can’t eat bacteria.”
The extremophiles aren’t for eating, Boogie. They’re for kick starting life on that rock.
Our folks are going to have to pre-stage their own food supplies on Mars.
Yes I know all about the planets that the Klingons and Romulons and Vulcans etc live on : )
Gary Johnson for Mayor!
The time it would take such a probe to get to Mars would be, on average: 3,888 hours (162 days). And although astronauts have been on the ISS longer, they are resupplied on a regular basis and that wouldn’t be possible for a Mars mission.
A space station in geosynchronous orbit would be much more dangerous than the ISS. As would a 162 day flight to Mars (and then add the unprotected time on the Martian surface and then add the return trip, assuming it isn’t a suicide mission).
Radiation is a showstopper.
“Yes I know all about the planets that the Klingons and Romulons and Vulcans etc live on : )”
Ehhhh... Wise guy, eh??
Why, I oughta....(boink boink, bonk, boop!)
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