NOW...WHAT'S HOLDING US UP? IRAQ...economy decline...everything is. And as far as I see that much money will not come out of thin air, we have got to find another solution if we want to be on Mars.
Fair point. So it's either save up or come up with a new technology that is cheap to develop and cheap to implement. This could take a while.. lol
Why do we have to ever go to mars anyways?
there is only one route, to develop new technology...as far as I can see. The theoretical physics are already there, we need to invest in these physics more.
Yea but how much is that goign to cost in the end ? There may not be that much of a difference, however cheap the technology turns out to be.
because Mars is the closest thing to us that has the resources to sustain in-situ Life Supporting Systems for humans. And also we need to get to space because we need to invest in future, because there will not be enough Earth for everyone. And...we need to get to space to lessen our chances of extinction by either our own war or some asteroid impact...
Ever heard the story of the Bacteria Civilization on the petri dish?
Once upon a time their was a civilization of bacteria that lived on a petri dish in some lab, ..... If the bacteria people had only decided to stop dividing or had put that technology into modifying them selves photosynthetic they could have living on the endless counter top.
I'm told Mars doesn't generate a magnetic field like earth, thus its atmosphere has slipped away. Can anyone tell me for sure what - if any - atmosphere Mars has? I don't see how it can contain any liquid on the surface if it's in hard vacuum.
Originally Posted by kmguru
Are we searching for that mystery particle like electrons that can create a gravity field like magnetism?
YES WE ARE
nice story...but we are not bacteria. We got wars regulating our population. Why can't we both modify ourselves and move to a new petri dish at the same time? :shrug:
Don't forget, we didn't have any trouble landing on the Moon, which has no atmosphere at all. It's just a matter of landing your ship under rocket power. This is not very hard - we did it on the Moon decades ago, and there have been several more modern demonstrations of vehicles that could take off and land on earth under rocket power.thats what I am saying...its not doible right now...the only alternate option is to have it land using propulsion element on most of the trajectory. All the reason why this is so hard to land on Mars is because of 1/100 of Earth air density there...there is just not enough drag to slow down the vehicle.
Then we can finally have a planetary war
I think, the atmosphere creates the magnetc field. Perhaps the atmosphere was blown off due to one or more massive asteroid strikes, due to low gravity. If that is the case, we replace the atmosphere, then you could have the magnetic field that can protect the planet from intense solar radiation.
Then question comes, how do you produce enough gas to create the atmosphere? Drill for natural gas? Create volcanic erruptions?
Yeah...Mars is around -70 C and has basically no atmosphere. I would certainly hate to "ruin" it.I can't wait until we turn another planet into a trash heap.