Going to Mars.....

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I watched a program about it last night. All the details are too long to type in so......

Basically they said they are going [Spacex/NASA] in or around 2023-2025, and it will be a one-way trip ! They are taking applications , they have about 1100 applicants so far! They...want to colonize the planet. It would take about 280 days to get there. And the hope is that those that go will, figure out how to remain & be self-sufficient .

Would YOU go ?
 

Nope!

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I suppose if enough people sign up it might help save the earth.:):playful::eek:nthego:
 

I think a trip to Mars in 2023 0r 2025 is a little - or a lot - premature. Perhaps a research station on the moon would be a better first step, so that all the presently non-existent technology they will need could be developed and tested and proven before they head to another planet where there will be no chance of help or rescue from earth when things go wrong.
 
rgp said:
I watched a program about it last night. All the details are too long to type in so......

Basically they said they are going [Spacex/NASA] in or around 2023-2025, and it will be a one-way trip ! They are taking applications , they have about 1100 applicants so far! They...want to colonize the planet. It would take about 280 days to get there. And the hope is that those that go will, figure out how to remain & be self-sufficient .

Would YOU go ?
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No. There's no way Mars can be colonized. Too hostile for humans. Radiation will kill or sterilize you on the way there. Nothing on Mars we don't have here except water is missing.
 
Camper6 said:
No. There's no way Mars can be colonized. Too hostile for humans. Radiation will kill or sterilize you on the way there. Nothing on Mars we don't have here except water is missing.
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Well not according to the "experts" that spoke on the program. We'll see I suppose.
 
It is NOT a one way trip.
Yes colonizing Mars is the goal. Why? Because in a few million years the Sun is going to expand and suck the Earth in leaving no trace it ever existed.
We will build bases on the Moon so we can reach Mars on a regular basis without having to fight Earth's gravity.
So Mars will be our home as will other planets that will be constructed like the Death Star. Note, this is hundreds of years in the future. Buy the book Physics Of The Future by Michio KaKu for an intelligent review of what science is and will be doing in the next thousand years. Incredible reading from a leading theoretical physicist.
 
Think first of the future and the technology we will have. Realize the first Moon landing was nearly void of technology compared to what your phone has. Our grandchildren and their children are in for an incredible world.
 
Have no desire to go or ability to go (age), but I admire the heck out of people like that. They are the pioneers. Look at it this way, without the explorers of the past they would have never discovered America, they thought the earth was flat and the explorers would fall off the ''sea cliff''. When you look at the sea, it LOOKS like there's an edge to it in the horizon. Can you imagine the courage (or foolishness) of those sailors venturing on, wondering if they would fall off that edge? I doubt that Mars will save our species, too barren and hardly any atmosphere and only traces of water and oxygen, and none of the other planets in our system seem to be candidates. The hope for our species are finding an Earth-Twin out in other solar systems, they've found thousands of planets already, a few MUST be like our planet.
 
Oh, I thought this thread was going to be a funny message...turns out, though, it is kind of funny..I don't think I would go..can't stand long trips..lol
 
Why would we want to colonise Mars? We need to invent Warp travel so we can colonise planets in other solar systems.But as we will be dead when the sun goes supernova it's not our problem.
 
Hahahaha!

Nope! These days I hate to fly. I have visions of this group of "space pioneers" waiting in a long line while TSA agents x-ray their baggage and make them take off their shoes.

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Furryanimal said:
Why would we want to colonise Mars? We need to invent Warp travel so we can colonise planets in other solar systems.But as we will be dead when the sun goes supernova it's not our problem.
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I don't know. It was just a program , proposing the idea & stating some of the plans. I was just asking if anyone here would go ?...given the opportunity .
 
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280 travel days? Hope the have a big holding tank for the potty. And food....how do they have room for all the food they need? And maybe worst of all.....NO TV?
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Well apparently NASA has the "potty" part figured out....They "go up" for several day trips now, and...How long did Scott Gifford stay at the ISS ? I believe it was one year......I sure hope he pooped during that time.
 
rgp said:
Well apparently NASA has the "potty" part figured out....They "go up" for several day trips now, and...How long did Scott Gifford stay at the ISS ? I believe it was one year......I sure hope he pooped during that time.
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I sure hope he pooped, too. LOL Seriously, I think the biggest problem (so far) from weightlessness seems to be bone loss or muscle atrophy (I forget which and don't want to google). That would be a big problem in planets that don't have Earth's gravity.
 
PVC said:
I sure hope he pooped, too. LOL Seriously, I think the biggest problem (so far) from weightlessness seems to be bone loss or muscle atrophy (I forget which and don't want to google). That would be a big problem in planets that don't have Earth's gravity.
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I recall the same......I suppose [if this is all on the up&up] is why they are said to be screening volunteers .

They do have some very high-tech exercise equipment on board ISS but?

On the program, they said that Mars has [IIRC] 73% of Earth's gravity.
 
rgp said:
I recall the same......I suppose [if this is all on the up&up] is why they are said to be screening volunteers . They do have some very high-tech exercise equipment on board ISS but? On the program, they said that Mars has [IIRC] 73% of Earth's gravity.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-scott-kellys-year-in-space-changed-his-poop

Speaking of poop, the gut bacteria does change when confined to the space station, but only a little. NASA was lucky to have identical twins Mark and Scott Kelly. Mark stayed grounded and Scott spent one year in space and NASA took all kinds of samples and measurements from both before, between, and after so that they could compare results. Seems that long term weightlessness also affects cognitive (sp?) and people age faster, even six months after returning Scott was yet not up to par when he left.

Musk said something about doing something that might restore Mars's thin atmosphere (it all went over my head). But, his main goal is to built an astrodome or something where the pioneers can shelter and I think he's also mainly interested in mining the resources there (but how to get back to Earth?). If anybody can do it, Elon Musk can, he's a true genius, if a little arrogant and impulsive. It's all very exciting and I am just sorry that I won't be here when it all happens.
 

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