Going to Mars...?
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Going to Mars...?
Hey everybody!
With all this talk about going to Mars and all, I was wondering if any of you knew anything about some of their ideas. Obviously the problem with going to Mars is it would take so long to get there, and a long period of time in a wieghtless environment will cause a serious degeneration of the muscle and bone structure of the body. So, here is my question, have any of you heard of what they are going to try to do to prevent this? What their ideas have been and stuff?
Thanks everyone,
STan
P.S. Anybody guess why I'm asking???
With all this talk about going to Mars and all, I was wondering if any of you knew anything about some of their ideas. Obviously the problem with going to Mars is it would take so long to get there, and a long period of time in a wieghtless environment will cause a serious degeneration of the muscle and bone structure of the body. So, here is my question, have any of you heard of what they are going to try to do to prevent this? What their ideas have been and stuff?
Thanks everyone,
STan
P.S. Anybody guess why I'm asking???
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The common thought about the weightless problem is to rotate part of the ship to have centrifugal forse do the effect of gravity, but I haven't really been paying much attention to it lately, and I am sure it is a ways off at this time. Still trying to prove we safely went to the moon, ya know... All the cosmic particles that will kill ya if you go past the atmosphere, and fall off the edge of the earth... 
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Check this site out about Mars, and let me know what you think, and I'll tell you about a live link I saw several years ago. http://www.xenotechresearch.com/marsindx.htm
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Verryy interesting. It is already a known fact that the sun is a dying star, so it very well could have warmed Mars enough to have supported life, and with the existance of water, it would have been much like the Earth is now. I find it curious that there has been no mention of any of this in the media, must be the cautious approach to releasing that kind of info.
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I was thinking about that song "marchin' to mars" by van halen, sorry, random rock-out moment.
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Life on mars
they found small mice living on mars!
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Btw, i head of traxxas, losi associated... any of you guys into RC?
they found small mice living on mars!
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Btw, i head of traxxas, losi associated... any of you guys into RC?
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Instead of making the ship capable of sustaining life for the 6+ months it would take to get there...how about we just develop some better propulsion technology? Make getting to Mars a two hour flight. That way we can expand the range of what we can visit and go beyond just Mars. /THEN/ we figure out how to put people in "cryo-sleep" or whatever to reach farther places. If you think about it, the technology involved in rocket propulsion is ancient. The Chinese were doing it thousands of years ago. Granted we use a different fuel and a more advanced combustion chamber...but it's still just burning crap to make something move.
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Nasa has successfully developed a nuclear propulsion unit. It's biggest drawback is that it required 4 to push a probe past saturn, and that took several years to get there. The best way to counteract gravity is make a spinning room, or section inside the ship, that spins with the correct speed to have the same gravity as earth.
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From: just outside of Phila.
I was under the impression that the Sun was expanding as it dies. Everything works in cycles, so I believe that Mars was a mecca much like earth AGES ago, but now is just burnt up dust, and the Earth is in its final stages of becoming a Mars-like environment. As far as time and space goes, we're not even a speck of dust, so it'll be millenia before anything noticeable happens.
Anyone read all of the new stories about planets they're finding outside of our solar system? There are a few stars with up to 4 planets orbiting them. They even say that they're not all like Jupiter (just gas and small amounts of rock), but very much like earth. They estimate finding 135 planets.
Anyone read all of the new stories about planets they're finding outside of our solar system? There are a few stars with up to 4 planets orbiting them. They even say that they're not all like Jupiter (just gas and small amounts of rock), but very much like earth. They estimate finding 135 planets.
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From: Rosebud
The new Ion-pulse generator isn't too far away,they already have a proto-type.All though it will probably be nuclear.space travel will be alot more possible.but like disscussed earlier,even though fuel is'nt the problem anymore,the weightless thing is.Unless they come up with a drug to counter its effects,but rest assured that millions of mice give there life each year in the persuit of it.
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Originally Posted by maticuno
Instead of making the ship capable of sustaining life for the 6+ months it would take to get there...how about we just develop some better propulsion technology? Make getting to Mars a two hour flight. That way we can expand the range of what we can visit and go beyond just Mars. /THEN/ we figure out how to put people in "cryo-sleep" or whatever to reach farther places. If you think about it, the technology involved in rocket propulsion is ancient. The Chinese were doing it thousands of years ago. Granted we use a different fuel and a more advanced combustion chamber...but it's still just burning crap to make something move.
Now let's talk about that cryo-sleep proposal... na, let's not.