Going to Mars...?
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From: Rosebud
The Chinese already have a plan for a luner colony in the next 40 years.while there,they will mine the raw materials to build ships out of for exploration.thats what all the probes are being sent to mars for,to determine if the raw minerals are there to build with once we get there.the long range plans are to build smog intensive smelting plants there. the smog will begin creating an atmosphere and within 50-75 years there should be enough atmospheric pressure we will be able to walk around with just oxygen tanks and no pressure suit.
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Originally Posted by Mike W
There is no hurry to get to Mars. We haven't ruined Earth yet. 
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Wow...Mars Living. I can see me buying a subsciption anyday. Bet thats gonna be a big postage bill.
I have no doubt people will make the trip to Mars.
I'm not sure the Earth is able to sustain our the effects of current population increase and demand for another 75 years. If the Earth can carry us that far, I highly doubt we'll have the cash to pay for the development and implementation of long term Mars deployment.
I'm no 'lunatic end of times' kinda freak......but everything has a breaking point.
Or maybe its just that today I'm not doin much skippin and jumpin.
I have no doubt people will make the trip to Mars.
I'm not sure the Earth is able to sustain our the effects of current population increase and demand for another 75 years. If the Earth can carry us that far, I highly doubt we'll have the cash to pay for the development and implementation of long term Mars deployment.
I'm no 'lunatic end of times' kinda freak......but everything has a breaking point.
Or maybe its just that today I'm not doin much skippin and jumpin.
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From: California Desert
Originally Posted by hkiefus
Well, first there is the problem of having enough energy to accelerate a craft to the speed it would take to make it a two hour trip. Then I would have to say that no living being could withstand the acceleration/braking forces of a two hour trip.
Now let's talk about that cryo-sleep proposal... na, let's not.
Now let's talk about that cryo-sleep proposal... na, let's not.
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From: Claremore
First off, yes, I have heard of a the company traxxas and yes, indeed I am into RC's, and my first was a Traxxas Hawk 2, hence the user name. The problem all started 2 years, 3 email addresses and 2 user names later, when I realized that all this time, I had been mispelling Traxxas as Traxxis... which pretty much brings us to the point where we are now, me explaining that I was an idiot 8 years ago and couldn't spell. 
and no, I am not an Astronaut Wouldn't even be interested in leaving this hugh mass that we all live on. Just a curious "wanna-be" engineer. 
and no, I am not an Astronaut
Wouldn't even be interested in leaving this hugh mass that we all live on. Just a curious "wanna-be" engineer.
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From: Claremore
Originally Posted by desperado_18_2000
Hey maybe if we do go to Mars maybe i can talk them into taking me home??
(Not to mention any names... but KT's since of humor is beyond this world! )STan
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I don't remember if it was the Japanese or the Chinese, but they were proposing a one way trip to Mars. They weren't going on a suicide missing, but had plans to go there and set up a permanant colony, they were going to make the most out of the materials on the surface expanding their habitat beyond their spacecraft. This would free them from all the weight of fuel they'd have to bring to land on Mars and then be able to escape the gravity of Mars and return to Earth.
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There is an article in Popular Mechanics this month (October issue) on Mining the Moon to get to the other planets and solve some energy problems here. Helium-3 is available up there. If they get some earthmoving, no that isn't the right term, dirt moving, no that isn't right either, what would they call a lunar dust and rock moving machine? They have called that stuff soil but it really isn't soil either. Anyway if they get some machines up there it will be easy to build habitat by piling "soil" on top of inflated tubes to live in.
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