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Populating a Mars Base Will Be Dangerously Unsexy
livescience.com ^
| May 29, 2018 07:03am ET
| Brandon Specktor,
Posted on 05/30/2018 9:29:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:29:30 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Not necessarily.....................
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:32:40 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: BenLurkin
This will be ridiculously expensive. Instead, how about spending money on developing synths. These robots could do necessary tasks, including setting up factories to produce more of them.
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:33:51 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:34:58 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: BenLurkin
The song “Rocket Man” sums it up. When it’s just a job, it’s nothing special. And once enabled to see the risks and benefits, and it is just routine, you’d have to pay a person a LOT of money to do it. And that might not even be enough.
There was an old Firesign Theater skit about the government wanting families to colonize space. Their ad went something like this: Godlike voice: “We’re looking for families who want to live in tubes and press buttons.”
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:35:06 AM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
To: hal ogen
Yep. It’s pretty obvious that very soon there will be no need to send human beings out there other than to make room for other human beings here.
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:35:56 AM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
To: hal ogen
"These robots could do necessary tasks,And if the women do become unsexy, well, there's always the robots!
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:36:12 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: BenLurkin
The entire point of space exploration needs to be to find water worlds.
To: BenLurkin
Mars' atmosphere is about 1 percent as thick as Earth's, meaning the planet is hit by a lot more solar radiation than humans are currently used to. They need to build underground.
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:40:16 AM PDT
by
marron
To: Architect of Avalon
The entire point of space exploration needs to be to find water worlds. Yes.
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:40:52 AM PDT
by
marron
To: BenLurkin
EXPLORATION ALWAYS IS
Duh...
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:41:09 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: BenLurkin
Establishing a culture that values the survival of the colony over individual members would require some serious ethical changes, including more liberal practices regarding abortion of nonviable offspring and "euthanasia of terminally ill persons," the authors wrote. OK, I don't want this guy in charge of the colony.
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:42:06 AM PDT
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marron
To: hal ogen
it will be done if they are beneficial
leave it to the private sector to make them better, faster, and cheaper
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:42:12 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:42:57 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BenLurkin
There’s no air to breathe, but the author is worried about getting a sunburn.
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:43:34 AM PDT
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Mars needs to be smacked with an asteroid to get the outer crust oscillation against the inner core started again, so that it develops a magnetic field.
Then, smash another asteroid with a lot of water, and start oxygen generators
They did that in a movie once. If it saves the life of one triple-breasted midget it is worth it.
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:45:08 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: marron
They need to build underground. If you need to be underground, what's the advantage of living on Mars, rather than in space in a hollowed-out asteroid? In the asteroid you could live in an internal centrifuge to mimic full Earth gravity.
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:47:42 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: BenLurkin
Questions needed to be answered:
1. Can mars be Tara formed from rock
2. Can humans survive while Tara forming is in progress
3. How long to Tara form
4. What is the cost to transform mars into a livable colony
To: BenLurkin
The effects of microgravity are also concerning. Mars' gravitational pull is about one-third as strong as Earth's... Mars doesn't have a microgravity. It has gravity-lite.
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posted on
05/30/2018 9:48:30 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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