Posted on 12/21/2020 9:34:04 PM PST by BenLurkin
In other words, don’t pack your suitcases just yet.
Send cargo craft ahead and park in orbit, even land so they know everything they need is there and intact on the surface before they leave Earth. Maybe try out some solar-sail tech or solar-wind tech for the cargo craft. Also send some to the satellites as well. Make it a serious operation and not some shoestring deal. You’re a long ways from a gas station or a Walmart when you get to Mars.
There is no reason to go to Mars other than to see what is there. No soil, -89 degree temperature, and no water. This is a fools errand—but hey Elon Musketeer, would love to see you throw away all your money and come back to earth.
I suppose once you iron out wormhole travel and warp drive, it’ll be a hop, skip, and a jump.
If the various space agencies and private companies don’t sort out how to either shield humans from the massive amounts of radiation they’d be absorbing on this trip, or changing human biology to stay healthy in a high radiation environment, it’s all moot.
I’ll never understand why the same people who fervently believe science can turn Mars into a habitable oasis for colonization, something which has never been accomplished and we have no experience achieving, but it’s impossible for humanity to handle climate change and improve our environment on earth, which even primitive cultures have managed to do for thousands of years and we’re getting better at every day.
The Transporter, Jim!
Mars ain’t no kind of place to raise your kids.
Wasn’t there a plan to send a fuel production plant to Mars before manned travel there?
We may need to terraform Mars so we have a place to escape the coming internal and external communist takeover.
Elton John wrote about going there....old news.
What if we don’t want them safely back again?
(And, with that, I bid all good, decent people here good night.)
I don’t think that he plans to return.
I’d live in a tiny building or ship and float around all day if it got me away from our government. I’d take the one way trip and maybe we could start a fresh society without communists.
Yup first thing I thought of was getting away from the communists. Give us some lazer blasters and let’s go !!
And how will our soon-to-be revolutionary socialist nation pay for that?
What am I forgetting? Sometimes I wish I had Total Recall
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