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Mars

As much as I want people to go to Mars, Lockheed had made some claims about fusion technology that I think are more exciting. If I had to pick one project to succeed and one to fizzle out, I want the fusion technology. We get that, we'll probably get to Mars in the near future anyway.
 
all the rovers, probes and surveyors running on Mars do seem to make going there in person a little redundant.

Mars turned out to be a pretty overrated place anyway. not much atmosphere, no water, no alien civilization,& no internal tectonic activity generating magnetic fields to protect the surface from solar radiation, making it pretty useless regardless.
 
all the rovers, probes and surveyors running on Mars do seem to make going there in person a little redundant.

Mars turned out to be a pretty overrated place anyway. not much atmosphere, no water, no alien civilization,& no internal tectonic activity generating magnetic fields to protect the surface from solar radiation, making it pretty useless regardless.

If Matt Damon can grow potatoes there, we should have no problem terraforming it.
 
Sooner or later we are going to conquer the solar system. The moon should be first I think but who knows both the moon and mars, and one day the belt are just a dream I will probably not be around for..
 
Sooner or later we are going to conquer the solar system. The moon should be first I think but who knows both the moon and mars, and one day the belt are just a dream I will probably not be around for..

I agree with the moon first approach. At least for permanent residency. With fusion reactors, we should be able to power LED greenhouses on the moon if we can figure out how to grow stuff there. The month of light, month of darkness shouldn't be a problem.

I guess you'd need to build big spinning doughnut buildings to boost the gravity if people were going to spend much time there. I wonder if you can offset time at reduced gravity with time at higher gravity. Maybe you sleep at 1 g, do your moon job at 1/6th g in a lot of places, and then go work out at 2 g for an hour or two.
 
I agree with the moon first approach. At least for permanent residency. With fusion reactors, we should be able to power LED greenhouses on the moon if we can figure out how to grow stuff there. The month of light, month of darkness shouldn't be a problem.

I guess you'd need to build big spinning doughnut buildings to boost the gravity if people were going to spend much time there. I wonder if you can offset time at reduced gravity with time at higher gravity. Maybe you sleep at 1 g, do your moon job at 1/6th g in a lot of places, and then go work out at 2 g for an hour or two.


What your talking about is just so darn cool. Don't know why but I get so darn giddy thinking about exploration of the solar system. We humans love to explore, and who knows maybe we will find some spectacular out there.
 
Hey cool stuff,and one day mars Will be a settlement for humans . They more we know about the red planet the better.
 
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PLANTS GROWN IN SIMULATED MARS CONDITIONS FOUND SAFE TO EAT

http://www.popsci.com/researchers-find-four-space-crops-fit-for-human-consumption

Curiosity May Try to Sample the Water on Mars
​The bot's mission has been set in response to the high priority of searching for extraterrestrial life. ​

http://www.popularmechanics.com/spa...ill-photograph-possibly-sample-water-on-mars/

Time for NASA to double down on journey to Mars

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-nasa-journey-mars.html

ASIA Japan Hopes to Colonize Mars With Autonomous Robots by 2040

http://nextshark.com/japan-mars-trip/
 
PLANTS GROWN IN SIMULATED MARS CONDITIONS FOUND SAFE TO EAT

http://www.popsci.com/researchers-find-four-space-crops-fit-for-human-consumption

Curiosity May Try to Sample the Water on Mars
​The bot's mission has been set in response to the high priority of searching for extraterrestrial life. ​

http://www.popularmechanics.com/spa...ill-photograph-possibly-sample-water-on-mars/

Time for NASA to double down on journey to Mars

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-nasa-journey-mars.html

ASIA Japan Hopes to Colonize Mars With Autonomous Robots by 2040

http://nextshark.com/japan-mars-trip/



Very cool stuff. Thanks ..
 
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