So, all this progress - just to be cave men again?
take me....take me....Yeh right...
What could be lurking in those caves?
Not my idea of a vacation spot.
Liberals keep saying they’re leaving the US. Send them.
IIRC this was a plot point in the TV series Mars a few years ago. They found a cave to live in and I believe created an oxygen atmosphere where they were living. Of course, being a TV series, they barely found the cave in time.
That’ll work
In an environment where it goes what 200+ to 200- in the same day?
(probably not everywhere)
Thank you NASA!
Thank you NASA!
Thank you NASA!
I’d like to go to Mars but only for a weekend. I’d need to leave my house on Friday evening to be on the surface by Saturday morning. I’d check out the place for a day, but I need to be back home by bedtime on Sunday.
I’m in for this trip for a stunning Facebook posting.
Caves won’t save us from extra-terrestrial biological entities. We better make sure we are not viewed as invaders.
“Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise a kid. In fact it’s cold as hell.”
take a few good nukes, make our own
The people most convinced science is fully capable of creating a livable environment on Mars for a permanent colony of humans also seem to be the people most convinced that climate change on Earth is an unsolvable problem.
In reality, even if the engineering is possible (which it is so long as they solve the radiation problem, it’s just a matter of whether or not people want to spend the money to do it), any Mars colony would be a totalitarian nightmare.
Eat what you are served, work where you are told, consume only the resources you are allotted and surrender those resources when instructed without protest for the greater good. Breed when you are permitted. Die when the expense of your life falls below your utility. And that’s assuming there’s only one Mars colony and everyone gets along. The cheerleaders for this idea just think that they’re going to be the ones making those calls.
Don’t forget the toxic chemicals in the soil (perchlorate).:
(https://www.cnet.com/science/martian-soil-turns-up-toxic-chemical/
What's in a name? I have a cartouche that literally came from Cydonia [קידוניה] many years ago, complete with this detail: 𓇌 the double yod, so I'm good.
That family's business even installed a wind farm at the place of first light.. power, koach (28 turbines).
They gotta make sure there are no poisonous gases which are venting from the deep rocks of Mars and could corrode and/of diffuse their way through the protective barriers. The possibility of a Marsquake destroying a cave complex is something to consider.
I think we’ll go anyway(we only got about 9(?) years left on earth.)
GMAFB.
Until there’s a breakthrough in propulsion and energy, any manned Mars mission is a one-way trip.
Let’s get back to the Moon and work things out a lot closer to home until such a time.