Do You Have What it Takes...?

tecoyah · 04-01-08, 06:30 AM

Come on....you know you want to go!

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For thousands of years,
the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world's every last nook, cranny and subdivision.
An invitation.
Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.
The question is, do you want to join us?

Ever yearned to journey to the stars? You can learn how to become a Virgle Pioneer, test your Pioneering potential, or join the Mission Control community that will help develop the 100 Year Plan we've outlined here.

Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes

John1234 · 04-01-08, 08:05 AM

I dreamed of doing something like this, all of my life.
But slow progression in technology ruined it for me.
By the time I would have any chance, I will be too old.

Lachean · 04-01-08, 09:11 AM

I'd go, if they needed accountants on Mars...

WI Crippler · 04-01-08, 03:15 PM

100 years???

Well I'm never going to complain about the wait lines at amusement parks any more.

Tashah · 04-01-08, 04:04 PM

I'd go in a heartbeat. Too bad it's not the Barsoom of John Carter.

the makeout hobo · 04-02-08, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Tashah

I'd go in a heartbeat. Too bad it's not the Barsoom of John Carter.

What if it's the Malacandra of Ransom? Will that please you, you pulp loving hussy?

rhinefire · 04-04-08, 09:03 AM

No, I won't go as wars on Earth are enough for me. Wars over territory on the moon will be bad enogh but since we plan to colonize Mars that was will be a humdinger. "Mars Wars", h-m-m-m has a familiar ring to it.

conquer · 04-05-08, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by tecoyah

Come on....you know you want to go!

Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes

Sheesss! Wasn't enough the hoax of the traveling to the Moon?

Lets see. You know that currently the main problem we have is to survive in outer space. Our bodies start to get distorted by the lack of a gravity similar to the one we "enjoy" here on ground.

The deformation of the body causes deformation of the discs between the vertebrae. The bones start a fast aging, so, if you are 40 years old, after a year in space you will have the same osteoporosis found in a 70 years old man.

You lose red blood cell production, your immune system gets very weak, you start to become a real health problem yourself.

Besides these "little" inconveniences, your mind gets disoriented, you suffer of headaches very frequently, and psychological problems stat to arrive as well.

These problems have not been resolved yet, and the only solution up to today is to consume "drugs" in order to survive the travel to Mars in the year 2014. Still, there is not a single guarantee that such will work.

Look, stay in the space station for two years, which is the expected duration of a travel to Mars.

If you survive two years in the space station without becoming a mass like jello in the floor of the space ship, you might be ready to such travel to Mars, not before.

Don't invite us to a party in 2014 that won't be a reality just because some guys say so.

Be realistic, and try to solve the current problems that affect the astronauts who stay long periods of months in outer space.

At this time will be very hard to fake a travel to Mars...and get better informed...

Korimyr the Rat · 04-05-08, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by conquer

Lets see. You know that currently the main problem we have is to survive in outer space. Our bodies start to get distorted by the lack of a gravity similar to the one we "enjoy" here on ground.

That's why we really need to be setting our sights on Venus. Gravity's a bit better than 90% of Earth's-- and the habitation challenges are actually smaller than anywhere else in our Solar System.

Not to mention, if you bring some basic agricultural raw materials, you've got everything you need on Venus both to sustain the colony's material needs, but to begin a (very slow) terraforming process and even export goods in order to import anything else you might need.

WI Crippler · 04-05-08, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Korimyr the Rat

That's why we really need to be setting our sights on Venus. Gravity's a bit better than 90% of Earth's-- and the habitation challenges are actually smaller than anywhere else in our Solar System.

Not to mention, if you bring some basic agricultural raw materials, you've got everything you need on Venus both to sustain the colony's material needs, but to begin a (very slow) terraforming process and even export goods in order to import anything else you might need.

I'd be interested in hearing how we would terraform Venus. I've head the thoeries of terraforming Mars, but Mars has several problems such as a rapidly dissipating atmosphere, lack of tectonic plate actvity, and I want to say I remember hearing that the magnetic field is rather weak which causes other issues. In other words, things that aren't easily fixed by any measure.

With Venus, I have never heard a terraforming idea. I think thats kind of out of the window with the run away greehouse effect it has going on right now. What ideas would they possibly have for stopping that? It would take more than planting some corn and soy.