Posted on 08/28/2015 5:36:05 AM PDT by Textide
Full Title: Buzz Aldrin developing 'master plan' to begin colonies on Mars by 2040 as he launches partnership with university
Buzz Aldrin, 85, is partnering with Florida Institute of Technology.
The Buzz Aldrin Space Institute will open in The Fall and focus on Mars
Astronaut, the second man to walk on the Moon, has devised plan to get to the red planet using 'cycling pathways' and base on Mars's moon Phobos
The second man to walk on the Moon is teaming up with Florida Institute of Technology to develop 'a master plan' for colonizing Mars within 25 years. Buzz Aldrin, 85, took part in a signing ceremony Thursday at the university, which is located in Melbourne, less than an hour's drive from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Buzz Aldrin Space Institute is set to open this fall at FIT. Aldrin, who followed Neil Armstrong onto the moon's surface on July 20, 1969, will serve as a research professor of aeronautics as well as a senior faculty adviser for the institute. He is pushing for a Mars settlement by approximately 2040 after crafting a system of flights to take humans there in incremental steps.
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There’s nothing wrong with living in a cave - look at the inhabitants of Coober Pedy. Developing directional drilling, sealing, and subterranean living also will protect people from extinction events on the surface.
Really? Protect from impact? How deep is Barringer Crater again?
I disagree. The advantages of earlier colonization are considerable in terms of the level of interest that would be maintained, not to mention getting started while there is still interest and before something goes wrong here. Martians would care a whole lot more about solving the terraforming problems than we do back here. They would also be far less vulnerable to political whims and fads than we are. It's easy for our morons to whine that we should feed our hungry before we provide any funds for Mars, even though we can never feed all the hungry because of the choices they make. It's almost unimaginable that Martian colonists would take the same attitude.
I'd like to go to Mars as soon as we are ready, with people staying there and building a self-sustaining civilization. If we do it with people over 45 or 50 years old, so that they already have kids grown and out of the house, they can build without worrying as much about whether their children are in danger, and that might be a compromise from true colonization. However, I like the idea of building for my children. If we had a mission in two years, I'd be training, studying, and getting in shape to qualify and encouraging perhaps half of my children to come along.
Despite what Zubrin has claimed for years, terraforming Mars — using ‘greenhouse gases’ btw — will be an enormous project, will have to involve introduced gases, and the impact won’t be felt for a long, long time — length of a human lifetime or more. Dropping big blobs of frozen gas will be non-trivial impacts, especially at first, and will have the additional benefit of pulverizing the hard surface of the planet.
You go first punk and then call us. Make sure to bring plenty of wire to float on while you’re on your trip. Make sure the earth has been re-touched again to at least look like it’s size. Take a picture of that flag on the moon as you pass. Wave at the Starman as you pass him too. And last but not least...Please don’t come back. #elitistscumbag
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