Ping
Look up: www.aztechnology.com. It is a local company which did the coatings/paint for Curiosity. I think they are working on something for it now.
interesting
“That means astronaut pioneers could extract roughly 2 pints (1 liter) of water out of every cubic foot (0.03 cubic meters) of Martian dirt they dig up”
Until the EPA shows up (Extraterrestrial Protection Agency)
If we could grow gills we could leave Earth to ‘climate change’ nimrods, travel to Mars and learn to live in the dirt ...
and wage constant war against the weak, air-breathing Earthlings, eventually enslaving them. Barsoon!
WOW
Mars had life, I guaren-damn-tee it.
The common sense way to explore Mars is to send robots first, to prepare the place for habitation. The first robot should be a nuclear tunneling robot, that slowly and methodically mines into a vertical cliff face. For about 100 feet, at intervals it drills holes and inserts reinforcing rods in the ceiling.
Since it is on a “one way trip”, its landing craft can be cannibalized to provide pressure doors for the entrance of the tunnel, as well as pre-wired flooring, walls and ceiling.
At the end of the tunnel the tunneling robot digs large cisterns for storage of water and sewage in bladders. If the astronauts have a pressurized environment with water and electrical power from the nuclear powered robot, they will be able to quadruple the amount of time them spend on Mars.
And when they leave, the robots go back to work, continuing to improve the situation. So that with each visit, colonization becomes more possible.
Why doesn’t NASA announce they found a really jumping gay bar? And free TVs with EBT cards attached to them?
Curiosity Rover Makes Big Water Discovery in Mars Dirt, a ‘Wow Moment’
“Suitable for Moslem Camels,”
says NASA Mission Control
Wow now whole families can migrate to Mars if they can just figure out the other 10,000 problems.
“mommy why is there all this dirt in my glass of water?”