Mars One
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- albums0
Remember the blowout preventer that didn't prevent shit in the bg gulf oil spill? I'm sure who ever makes the airlock for the buildings will be under as much pressure.
Sealing the ecosystem in is the hard part, after that provided supplies should do their thing and begin to thrive.
- monospaced0
We should focus on implanting life on Mars instead of just searching for it.
- CygnusZero40
The problem isnt that it CAN'T be done. Anything can be done to an extent, Mars is reachable, but it's the timeframe and money, without government support. It's fucking bananas I tell you.
If you ever watched From The Earth To The Moon, just to figure that shit out it was just an incredible amount of work by a shit load of really smart and highly paid people. They want to do this in the same amount of time, except every time they want to launch something it takes 7 months to get there, and this will take far more research, designing, testing and money to accomplish.
Id love to see it happen, but if it happened before 2030 I would be shocked.
- oh shit, this guy watched a tv show. http://i0.kym-cdn.co…albums
- It was an accurate show on everything it took to make it happen, genius.CygnusZero4
- SpaceX built a spaceship in 4 years with a fraction of what nasa would have spent.inv
- _niko0
if a billion of us contribute $100 to kickstarter mars mission, we would still be 90% short of the goal.
- lolCygnusZero4
- not accounting for setbacks, failed launchs, explosions ect. plus we're not in a race with the commies so there is no sense of urgency._niko
- i don't like this because it makes the most sense & i wish i posted it.albums
- ...of urgency._niko
- monospaced0
It seems unsurmountable from the government's perspective because those guys can't seem to budget anything. They overspend on a level that's hard to comprehend. Private enterprises, on the other hand, are far more efficient with their funds and willing to take bigger risks. In their hands, much more is possible.
- let's hope. but give that kind of money o=to anyone and there is risk of mismanagement and corruption._niko
- i_monk0
It isn't something any individual country can do.
- ETM0
Once upon a time, a bunch of people boarded wooden ships and sailed across a vast ocean to the 'new world'. It took many months to get there and along the way many got sick and died. When they finally arrived, weak, short on supplies, they were faced with a daunting task of colonizing a vast, unknown land. They experienced new diseases they had never faced, wildlife they and never seen. Many more died. But they continued on.
For a well known group, as they faced winter, without enough food or supplies, a group of native peoples found them, brought them food allowing them to carry on and face the winter. Today, Americans celebrate that as Thanks Giving.
The morale of the story? I can't FUCKING wait for alien Thanksgiving.
- I wonder how many countless people perished getting to Easter Island on canoes?detritus
- + cook discovered australia while observing the last transit of venus, to determine the distance of the planets.kingsteven
- dbloc0
some dude is already there.
- bigfoot?albums
- derpCygnusZero4
- http://4.bp.blogspot…albums
- Clearly sand people.ETM
- Don Cheadle?CygnusZero4
- If anyone gets that I feel bad for them. lolCygnusZero4
- I got it. I felt bad watching it.dopepope
- lenny kravitzCALLES
- ha CheadleNathanNice
- ETM0
I have faith. In a universe where Kristen Stewart is considered an actor, anything can happen.
- detritus0
The problem with comparisons to the Herculean efforts of the Apollo programme is that it assumes that technology's stood still ever since.
Given what NASA, ESA, the Russkies, Musk and Bigelow have achieved over the past decade or so, direct comparison with tech from 50 years ago appears more than a little asinine.
- detritus0
it also implies that we've forgotten everything since then too. What was it Newton said about standing on the shoulders of giants?
...which is why I was quite miffed at the old guard's reticence to accept 'corporate' development of Earth to Earth orbit transports... as if teh Boeings and Lockheeds of the world were somehow not corporate entities.
Daft, eh.
- detritus0
I don't actually think much will come of this particular effort... but that doesn't mean I'd write of the whole concept...
The Dutch are, in my experience, amongst the very best in the world for inflating reality.
- georgesIII0
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I want to believe!- oh, no need to believe - the Dutch really are full of hot air. Somewhat ironically, for such a low-lying nation.detritus
- detritus0
I thinkMars, short to mid tyerm, is a bit of a distraction anyway. Very long term, yes, it makes sense to colonise another world.
But goddamn if gravity wells aren't a stupid thing to get caught up (down) in..that's why the Planetary Resources thing is potential;y sexy.
It's the logical route to the capitalisation of space - and if there's one thing man needs, it's a pot of gold to work towards.
- _niko0
how long can they sustain themselves in those pods? will they ferry food and supplies to them every 6 months and at what cost? what happens if one of the re-supply missions fail? are the screwed? can they mine frozen ice for water? what happens to human physiology long-term on mars?
what happens when they revolt and we are invaded by martians in a few hundred years? will our world cup champion have to play Mars' champ for the title of solar system champion?
- CygnusZero40
I guess those capsules would need to have simulated gravity so these people dont decay into nothingness, right? That's another thing that has to be figured out. Without them spinning at a high rate of speed, I dont know of any other way to simulate gravity.
The whole thing is so far fetched and so ridiculously far away from being a reality, it makes me think this is just a reason to start a big epic reality show and a bunch of people make a ton of money off of it, then it gets abandoned after the last season when real people die in some horrible accident. Hell of a series finale though that's for sure.
- I dont even know what the gravity situation is like on Mars. I know the rovers are there rolling around.CygnusZero4
- But if its light gravity like the moon then I would think these people would just decay over years.CygnusZero4
- detritus0
re: gravity on mars
You can *very* vaguely guesstimate it from looking at a comparison image of the three bodies..
...obviously it's not visually exact, given the physical and gravitational compostions of the bodies' interiors, but still..
- So half the gravity of Earth. That would takes its toll on the bodies of people living there for decades I would think.CygnusZero4
- likes like far less than half. Half diameter is far less volume and massmonospaced
- arthur0
All this stuff is going to happen, it's just a matter of time. Let's get over there and start terraforming that bitch.
- It will happen, but in 10 years without government funding? Dunno.CygnusZero4
- we should start terraforming earth while we're at itscarabin
- agreed scarabinmonospaced
- albums0
all the while, this has been reminding me of http://www.buildtheenterprise.or…
