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To: Usagi_yo

There are some one-way missions that are reasonable. For example, if at some point, Mars missions resulted in a large, self-sustaining underground habitat, sufficiently advanced to have a purpose of slowly terraforming Mars, so that astronauts were effectively colonists, I see nothing wrong with their volunteering to do so.


20 posted on 04/06/2014 3:37:34 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Terraform what? The average temperature up there is about -30 celcius. That’s the average, who wants to live in that?


29 posted on 04/06/2014 4:06:44 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Until we can produce a magnetic field to encompass mars I think all habitability will be under cover on mars for at least a couple hundred years. Its certainly far more hospitable than the moon. Its not a hard vacuum like the moon and there is at least some protection from solar radiation. The nights aren’t two weeks long.

I’d like to put a dome over one of those arena sized craters and experiment with producing an atmosphere, growing plants etc.


31 posted on 04/06/2014 4:25:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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