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Man on Mars in our lifetime?

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Think it will happen in the next 70 years?
Supposed to have a yes or no block. Guess, I wont building the space ship.
 
Think it will happen in the next 70 years?
Supposed to have a yes or no block. Guess, I wont building the space ship.

Yep; no doubt. NASA thinks so too or they wouldn't have launched.
 
Think it will happen in the next 70 years?
Supposed to have a yes or no block. Guess, I wont building the space ship.

I watched the first landing on the moon in of all places, Bangkok Thailand. Back then all of us figured that within 10-20 years we would be landing men on Mars. But I have a sneaking suspicion that if there is to be a man landing on Mars it will not be us, it will probably be the Chinese first.
 
Think it will happen in the next 70 years?
Supposed to have a yes or no block. Guess, I wont building the space ship.

Yeah I think by 70 years from now it will have happened. Nothing imminent though.
 
Think it will happen in the next 70 years?
Supposed to have a yes or no block. Guess, I wont building the space ship.

I'm on the fence on this one. Personally I think it will come down to fiscal resources and something will have to give to invest the Trillions it will end up costing to get us to Mars. That means either Republicans give a little up being the world's police department or Democrats give a little up turning this nation into permanent dependent status (and they all may have to give up a little dollars going to pet projects.)
 
Probably, I still don't get the point of it though. Remote is the way to go unless we can find a place we can get to for serious colonization. That sure aint Mars.
 
Probably, I still don't get the point of it though. Remote is the way to go unless we can find a place we can get to for serious colonization. That sure aint Mars.

Think about the people that want a really quick tan.
 
I like to hope so. Though sending humans is far less necessary these days, and if we cannot find any economical/scientific reasons that a human needs to be there, we may just keep sending robots.
 
We should not only be on Mars by then but have already started terraforming it.
 
We should not only be on Mars by then but have already started terraforming it.

That would be a rather foolish waste of money, time and effort. Better to find a planet with a precisely earth matched gravity profile if we're going to go that route.
 
That would be a rather foolish waste of money, time and effort. Better to find a planet with a precisely earth matched gravity profile if we're going to go that route.

Maybe. We could start with Venus, but there's the issue of the length of the days and finding a way to dispose of the extra atmosphere. Then there are the exoplanets, but they're kind of far away.

Mars is the easiest, or so it looks today. I say, let's start with the easiest planet, then apply what we learn to the next one.

Maybe, eventually we could park Europa in solar orbit and make it inhabitable for human life.
 
We aren't going to be terraforming anything this century or the next. The route to colonizing the solar system is through recreating the environment we have on Earth with orbital colonies.
 
Maybe. We could start with Venus, but there's the issue of the length of the days and finding a way to dispose of the extra atmosphere. Then there are the exoplanets, but they're kind of far away.

Mars is the easiest, or so it looks today. I say, let's start with the easiest planet, then apply what we learn to the next one.

Maybe, eventually we could park Europa in solar orbit and make it inhabitable for human life.

Most everything else can be dealt with but for the gravity, though a favorable orbit comes in a very close second. We humans require a very specific and small gravity range to survive as a species.
 
We aren't going to be terraforming anything this century or the next. The route to colonizing the solar system is through recreating the environment we have on Earth with orbital colonies.

Winner, winner chicken dinner. The only answer going forward. The advantages are many and it virtually ensure the longterm survival of the species.
 
Most everything else can be dealt with but for the gravity, though a favorable orbit comes in a very close second. We humans require a very specific and small gravity range to survive as a species.

How can anyone be so sure that the lower gravity on Mars would be a problem? Earth gravity is about 2 1/2 times that of mars, so people would be a lot lighter on Mars. If we could really walk the surface under the sky without space suits, we'd find walking a lot easier, we could jump farther and higher, climb hills more easily. A basketball game on Mars would be quite interesting. The baskets would have to be raised and the court made larger, the ceiling higher.

Or, the elderly who have gotten to the point that it is difficult for them to get around on Earth might find that they could once again walk around without help on Mars. It could be a real boon to the immigrants there. Maybe people would live longer, more active lives.
 
My son is a PHD in geo chemistry and has already been contacted about joining the team on the mission. He would love to be on that first flight............he is 31 ywars old.
 
Think it will happen in the next 70 years?
Supposed to have a yes or no block. Guess, I wont building the space ship.

Not likely, at least not from the US. We have become to financially overwhelmed taking care of the slaves the make themselves dependent upon the government instead of themselves to ever achieve such a lofty goal. One more thing killed off by the encroachment of socialism into our society.
 
Maybe. We could start with Venus, but there's the issue of the length of the days and finding a way to dispose of the extra atmosphere. Then there are the exoplanets, but they're kind of far away.

Mars is the easiest, or so it looks today. I say, let's start with the easiest planet, then apply what we learn to the next one.

Maybe, eventually we could park Europa in solar orbit and make it inhabitable for human life.

Venus atmosphere is extremely poisonous to humans. It's so heavy with carbon you couldn't breathe.
 
My son is a PHD in geo chemistry and has already been contacted about joining the team on the mission. He would love to be on that first flight............he is 31 ywars old.



I salute his courage. He is a brave man to volunteer for such a mission.
 
Yep -- probably by a private business funded by a multinational corporation. The large ones interested in minerals, diamonds, precious metals, exploration of unknown usable resources, etc etc are salivating about space exploration and the money that their efforts will yield them. It is of an unknown quantity because there are unknown unknowns when it comes to what we'll encounter in space and how globally exploited it can become.
 
How can anyone be so sure that the lower gravity on Mars would be a problem? Earth gravity is about 2 1/2 times that of mars, so people would be a lot lighter on Mars. If we could really walk the surface under the sky without space suits, we'd find walking a lot easier, we could jump farther and higher, climb hills more easily. A basketball game on Mars would be quite interesting. The baskets would have to be raised and the court made larger, the ceiling higher.

Or, the elderly who have gotten to the point that it is difficult for them to get around on Earth might find that they could once again walk around without help on Mars. It could be a real boon to the immigrants there. Maybe people would live longer, more active lives.

Millions of years of evolution on a specific planet. That's no small issue.

It's pretty much guaranteed that living on any other planet, no matter how almost like Earth it is, is going to come with numerous health complications.
 
Millions of years of evolution on a specific planet. That's no small issue.

It's pretty much guaranteed that living on any other planet, no matter how almost like Earth it is, is going to come with numerous health complications.
Humans evolved in a specific ecosystem, yet have colonized every part of the globe from the high Arctic to the Sahara. We're adaptable.
 
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