Mars To be colonized within 10 years

archamedes

archamedes

Suspended / Banned
Messages
813
Name
Dave
Edit My Images
Yes
I wasn't around when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, I always wanted to be around when the first man stepped onto mars & It looks like it isn't going to be science fiction or something of the future 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 requiring those gruelling Nasa fitness tests to be applicable.

http://mars-one.com/en/
 
Yes of course, dear. Now it's time for your nap.
 
If humanity is to survive in the long term then colonisation of planets is inevitable.

Mars seems to be the obvious choice but I think 10 years is extremely optimistic.

We also need fundamental advances in the way we produce energy, but maybe that's for another thread.
 
The real fun will start after a few generations, when there is significant distance in history between the first settlers and the current inhabitants to feel disgruntled having to live by Earth's rules.

Cue intergalactic war for independence.

I reckon we'll win. Screw Mars.
 
Let me know what it's like when you get back
 
you can laugh all you like, I like to keep an open mind and stay optomistic on the idea. 10 years may seem a bit tight with everything they need to prepare for, but if we have the technology and the know how to do it, why wait?
 
archamedes said:
you can laugh all you like, I like to keep an open mind and stay optomistic on the idea. 10 years may seem a bit tight with everything they need to prepare for, but if we have the technology and the know how to do it, why wait?
Click to expand...
Yes, but do they have Yorkshire pudding on Mars?
 
Is it April already?
 
Given that one of the prime movers behind all this is the founder of Paypal I wouldn't book your ticket yet. He can't even sort out his earth bound operation faultlessly, so I won't be sending a PPG for my ticket.
 
archamedes said:
you can laugh all you like, I like to keep an open mind and stay optomistic on the idea. 10 years may seem a bit tight with everything they need to prepare for, but if we have the technology and the know how to do it, why wait?
Click to expand...

Problem is, we don't have the technology, or the transport systems, or the means of energy production, or the means of food production, or the economic motivator and we don't know how to do it.

Some of those factors are currently work in process.

100 years maybe?
 
Is there a mobile signal on mars?
 
some very closed minded people on here. I suppose if 3 years ago someone said that red bull was making a small shuttle and sending some guy into space, you would probably laugh at that too.

Personally I do think sending untrained people to mars does sound a bit unlikely, but Mars colonization is possible and it really isn't that far into the future anymore with all the advancements in technology. Nasa are also apparently looking into warp drives They say its all blackboard theory at the moment so that sort of technology IS still far away
 
archamedes said:
some very closed minded people on here. I suppose if 3 years ago someone said that red bull was making a small shuttle and sending some guy into space, you would probably laugh at that too.
Click to expand...

It has nothing to do with being closed minded, it's about understanding current limitations.

I assume the red bull reference is the Austrian guy who parachuted from the edge of space.

That used a development of technology first developed in the 1960's.

The only truly amazing thing about that is it wasn't done before.
 
archamedes said:
some very closed minded people on here. I suppose if 3 years ago someone said that red bull was making a small shuttle and sending some guy into space, you would probably laugh at that too.

Personally I do think sending untrained people to mars does sound a bit unlikely, but Mars colonization is possible and it really isn't that far into the future anymore with all the advancements in technology. Nasa are also apparently looking into warp drives They say its all blackboard theory at the moment so that sort of technology IS still far away
Click to expand...

It's not closed-minded at all.

Firstly red bull didn't send a man to space. Secondly what they did has been achieved many times before minus the jump.

To suggest we'll not just put a man on mars but to actually establish a settlement in 10 years is pretty laughable. It's been years since man even risked setting foot on the moon, let alone reach a planet many times that distance.

Not to mention that Mars doesn't exactly appear suitable for long-term inhabitance given it's temperature, atmosphere etc.

I'd be amazed if we achieved establishing a settlement on another planet in hundreds of years, let alone a decade.
 
Mars colonisation isn't going to be feasible any time soon, if anyone saw stargazing live the other week you might have heard them mention the major problem that exists there is no protection from gamma radiation. Anyone spending any time there would be exposed to lethal doses of gamma and probably other radiation as well.
 
thats got to be a wind up

amongst other things we havent even colonised the moon yet , but we intend to colonise a planet much further away ? In ten years time ? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

as to the warp drive thing - traveling beyond the speed of light is both a physical impossibility , and even if it was acheivable it would be a really bad idea because you wouldnt see obstacles until after you'd hit them - and hitting even a bit of matter the size of a marble at light speed would lead to an enormous kinetic conversion explosion
 
archamedes said:
some very closed minded people on here. I suppose if 3 years ago someone said that red bull was making a small shuttle and sending some guy into space, you would probably laugh at that too.

Personally I do think sending untrained people to mars does sound a bit unlikely, but Mars colonization is possible and it really isn't that far into the future anymore with all the advancements in technology. Nasa are also apparently looking into warp drives They say its all blackboard theory at the moment so that sort of technology IS still far away
Click to expand...

Nasa have been looking into warp drives for as long as the mathematics have made them theoretically possible. Which is something like 70 years.

We won't be anywhere near Mars in a decade.

My girlfriend's father is head of the Centre For Life Detection at NASA in Pasadena CA, and he believes a colony on Mars is decades away. He basically knows more than everyone else on the entire planet, so I'll go with him.

If you want to know what kind of weight he holds with that, when I said "do you think you'll find life on Mars", he replied, "probably".

Actually, if anyone has any specific Mars related questions, I'll ask him. He's currently working through all the data being sent back by the rovers.
 
Q1 - have they found out what happened to beagle yet ?
 
Surely before we even attempt warp drive, magnetic field generators need to be developed. We have an active core on Earth that produces ours and shields us from the worst of the Suns radiation, soon as we move beyond it we will have great difficulties. If I remember correctly the core of Mars has gone cold so is no longer moving producing a magnetic field which means we would have to shield ourselves there and on the way.

I know that polyethylene and hydrogen block cosmic rays but the time it would take to get to Mars would mean we do not know the affect on the human body, let along staying there for a prolonged time.
 
Wont happen, NASA have not had the technology to send man back to the Moon since the Apollo program(if they even went there).
 
canonrebel said:
Wont happen, NASA have not had the technology to send man back to the Moon since the Apollo program(if they even went there).
Click to expand...

That sentence doesn't even make sense. They just 'lost' the technology after using it? Was it some kind of one time deal?
 
canonrebel said:
Wont happen, NASA have not had the technology to send man back to the Moon since the Apollo program(if they even went there).
Click to expand...
**<Pulls up chair and opens bag of popcorn>**

Don't you think the Americans actually landed on the moon?
 
I think the next thing NASA should do before thinking about getting men on mars is to actually get a spacecraft to RETURN from mars. They send landers but they haven't got anything there and back again yet.
 
I hope I haven't wasted a bag of popcorn.
 
I don't know what the fuss is about - if this was left out it would get colonised in a lot less that 10 years..............

ms-caramel-chocolate-3.jpg
 
Do they make Helmets big enough for Scrivens head :shrug:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top