Astronomy / Space Mars to be Inhabited by humans in 10 years

archamedes

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It looks like the idea of the first man on mars isn't going to be science fiction for long. They estimate that in 10 years we will already have a full colony on the planet and they want average joes like you and me to be the ones that visit, not gruelling Nasa fitness tests or anything like that

http://mars-one.com/en/
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
good luck to them, maybe a colony on another planet will make this one realise how petty some of its squabbles are but i think they are being a bit optimistic with 10 years, it would take that long just to build the infrastructure in earth orbit required to service the project and last time i looked up i didnt see any space cranes in the sky
 

lysander

lysander
Needs to be planned well or it will be a very one-way trip.

Long-term exposure outside our magnetosphere is poorly understood - the moon is the best place to test that, and has plenty of material for use in construction.

I still see it as 20 years to the moon, perhaps 50 or more to mars.
 

Alexander R

Alexander R
That whole thing looks like either a complete scam or wishful thinking. The organization itself has about 4 employees including an intern. They have no science or engineering experience. Long duration habit of another planet is an immense challenge, not one that can be successfully met by a reality game show, which is in effect what this marketing effort represents.

I don't know why Mars One keep getting so much coverage. Other initiatives such as the Golden Spike effort for the Moon, Space X's plans for Mars and the joint Nasa-ESA initiative with Orion I think will represent the first real progress toward off-world long duration missions.
 

archamedes

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Not to mention it has no gamma ray protection and low gravity will cause problems with human bones and muscles after long exposure, providing they are able to put up with the very old weather
 

deMangler

deMangler
Alexander R said:
I don't know why Mars One keep getting so much coverage. Other initiatives such as the Golden Spike effort for the Moon, Space X's plans for Mars and the joint Nasa-ESA initiative with Orion I think will represent the first real progress toward off-world long duration missions.
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Their whole endeavor is planned to be primarily funded by the media. The others have more... erm... rational? Models for funding. Anyway it would be great if it works out for them.
Even if it fails it would hopefully not fail in a way that puts other people off trying.
 

Giskard

Giskard
It's not going to happen - not in 10 years anyway.

What we really need is a full scale American-European-Russian-Chinese collaboration. Each can bring something unique to the party. Plus I think it's critical politically, that we work together on endeavours such as this.
 

Euryptus

Euryptus
I'm with Giskard on this one - a global effort would be ideal, but unfortunately - politics.

Sadly with the rate things are progressing with manned spaceflight, we'll be lucky to see a human even set foot on Mars in the next 10 years.

Having said that, if we're going to concentrate on unmanned exploration, it would be nice to fling a few more rovers out to different moons in our system.
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
Giskard said:
It's not going to happen - not in 10 years anyway.

What we really need is a full scale American-European-Russian-Chinese collaboration. Each can bring something unique to the party. Plus I think it's critical politically, that we work together on endeavours such as this.
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the problem is those political systems all have their own way of doing things so such close cooperation is difficult at best.

take the different approaches to writing in space.

the Americans spent millions developing a pen that would write in zero gravity, the Russians used a pencil.....
 
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