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General / Off-Topic To Mars and beyond with Elon's SpaceX (VIDEO)
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I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
It's exciting stuff, and I certainly applaud him for throwing his considerable economic and business weight behind it. I guess I'm cautiously optimistic. This ins't the first time someone has had a Grand Plan to get us all to Mars. (Google Robert Zubrin). We'll see. What' the running joke? Mars is 10 years away and always will be? lol.
Difference is Musk is wealth 13 billion dollars.
I think the man is as interesting as any one of his current projects, Tesla, Solarcity.
Though he does seem to have the knack of acing everything he turns his attention to, Paypal not to say the least.
Elon jokes, 'how do you make a small fortune? Start with a large fortune and create a space company.'
There is already a thread in the appropriate forum --- https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...olonization-of-mars-and-mars-rocket-animation
There is already a thread in the appropriate forum --- https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...olonization-of-mars-and-mars-rocket-animation
People need to see this...
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Some of his ideas are kind of mad.
Some of his ideas are kind of mad.
Really exciting. There is also a Mars show on Discovery that I assume is being paid for by Musk in order to perpetuate the idea and have it sink into peoples minds. I think we will definitely one day make a colony on Mars and I hope to see it in my life time. Hell, as a military pilot I hope to be part of the crew that goes... but I know the chances are less than one percent. Still, one can always dream.
Watching this thing is like seeing the future happening here and now. I must say it pretty flabbergasting stuff.
It's an interesting planet for research, but a sucky one to try and live on. The poison dust, the lack of a magnetic field... It's not great.
From what I understand Musk's plan is to use the (scientific name? not regolith because its not the moon?) Mars soil to basically 3D print domes to try and defeat the radiation caused by lack of magnetic field. That or to use ancient volcanic tubes... but you are right, not a walk in the park. Would need multiple suits to use while some are being repaired etc. I assume much like the moon the dust would stick to the suit etc. Was a problem with the Apollo missions. The time it takes for transports of equipment and food would be seriously difficult to and would mean ever thing you do would have to be thought out... terra forming is not very likely either due to lack of atmosphere. Even if you could get past the lack of iron core... atmospheric ablation would strip the planet of any successes made in terra forming.
Europa? lol
How frightening, to live on a planet without a suitable atmosphere. How tenuous an existence.
On Europa we'd have to live deep in the ice. Doable, if we could get there and set up in the radiation torrent thrown out by the giant cyclotron called Jupiter. Still a pretty crappy place to live in comparison to the Earth.
Agreed. But someone will have to do it one day.
Yes. I think there is a likely chance our first colony will probably be on a larger space station some distance from the earth. I wouldn't count a moon colony. However, even space stations are a poor choice for a great living. There was a fire not to long ago on the International and while in the end they got it under control a bunch of the astronauts reported they basically gave up and expected to die. I guess the air became unbelievably toxic etc... Its hard to imagine what that would be like but once again I think Musk is right. We need to live on multiple bodies.
Btw, Mars actually has a metallic core. It has just cooled down and stopped functioning as a dynamo. (Presumably because Mars is much smaller than the Earth, and possibly also due to having less fissile materials producing heat).
If somebody wants a maths puzzle, figure out how many megatons worth of nukes we'd need to drill into the core and set off to re-melt it and get it going again.
If somebody wants a maths puzzle, figure out how many megatons worth of nukes we'd need to drill into the core and set off to re-melt it and get it going again.
Definitely curious. Can't seem to find the size/weight of the core.