Colonization of Mars

[notdog1996 315]

Wouldn't it be awesome if Equestria was on mars. 

 

I think we would have known by now  .

Edited January 11, 2014 by notdog1996

[Judgement 445]

If they plan on sending me to mars, I'm counting on them to carve my tombstone.

 

I really find this to be pointless. Maybe humanity was destined to wait for aliens to come visit US. I mean, why else are there no signs of life anywhere but yet tons of people claim that they've seen aliens. The other race could have been alive for millions of years before humans, That could explain their distinctive use of technology.

 

One things for sure: If aliens look like ponies from MLP, Lauren Faust needs a raise.

Edited January 11, 2014 by Judgement

[Silverhoof 2,844]

I would go. There are people who have made plans to terraform Mars in under 200 years.

 

There is ice on the planet and oxygen in the thin atmosphere. With water made from melted ice we can make unlimited oxygen for any dome colony. Simple vats of algae can produce more oxygen. The technology has existed for 50 years on board nuclear submarines-its old reliable technology.

 

Food is easy to grow. Chickens rabbits and fish are all easy to farm. The day is about 24 hours so there won't be any real change for human physiology.

--as for the solar storms, we would get advanced warning from earth and spend a few days in a shelter or underground.

 

All the technology we need already exists. Sure I would volunteer to go.

Colonization of space is the next great frontier for mankind, it is the greatest, unending adventure.

I would gladly go and raise a family on a new world.

[Judgement 445]

I hope we can find another planet that can support life but is a lot different than earth. Not that it would be in my lifetime, but I would rather see money go to NASA than to wars against other countries that will be absorbed in the sun in the next 300,000,000,000 years.

[DubWolf 17,263]

Now why would anyone want to leave their friends and family behind just to live on Mars (unless they don't have any though)?

 

I suppose it's possible. They'd have to be pretty efficient solar panels to be able to hold on to all that energy; the problem is storing that energy.

 

How would they receive food and water? What if the space probe that sends them food each week/month went off course during their lifetime and never arrived? I'd be pretty nervous about this each time they sent one (also, that's a lot of fuel they'd be using to launch food into space each time they sent one).

 

I personally would decide not to go.

[~Chaos~ 3,967]

Seems like quite the risk to go, but people want to have this experience that only few will get to experience. To leave earth and never come back, takes bravery man.

 

Will be interesting to see what happens.

[Wayzer 1,418]

Nein I would stay cosy here on y'olde earth. I like that better I mean it's just a cold brown rock. maybe if it get's terraformed just maybe

Edited January 11, 2014 by Wayzer

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

I think it'd be better to Terraform mars then to send a few colonists there. 

[SCS 7,537]

I think that it is an exciting project, but it is essential that anyone who volunteers to participate knows exactly what they are signing up for. If one chose to participate in this program, that individual should fully understand the fact that they would be dedicating themselves to a lifetime of extreme isolation, danger, and even monotony. 

 

I hope that appropriate steps will be taken to ensure harmony in this settlement through spiritual, sociological, and psychological means, in addition to the presence of sufficient security operatives and devices.

 

I hope that humanity will always continue to journey out into the unknown, but with care and prudence, not reckless abandon. While I would love to visit Mars someday, I would never want to travel there on a one-way trip. Presently, earth is my home, and I would not feel comfortable abandoning it.

[Iron Shield 88]

I only heard about this recently. As a Canadian it's neat that Canada is the second largest contributor of colonist.

 

Anyway, in general I think the idea is amazing. Personally though, f**k that, I say this because it's a one way trip meaning if I were to go than I would never see earth again. I love earth and it's natural treasures too much and would probably go insane on Mars due to things like not able to breath freely outside without a space suit.

 

We should wait until we can make atmosphere processors from the movie "Aliens" a reality so as to make the atmosphere breathable and we should also wait until we have ships that can go back and forth.

[Rift enchanted 380]

There's no way I'm volunteering for this .  (I'm not suicidal)  There's no snow on Mars!  And there's no Europe on Mars either!  I just love my winters, that is all.  (I can't stand anything over 26°C). 

Yes finally! Someone that knows how to cold! (Yes that is proper grammar dont blame me.)

This topic had some convenient timing cause just the other night i watched a doctor who episode where they colonized on mars in the year 2059. Like all doctor who episodes there was paranormal activity but I highly doubt that will happen in real life. We've explored mars plenty times so i dont think anything else has inhabited it yet. But there is frozen water we could use as a hydration source and we could start farms and stuff like that. But i think only certain people would actually wanna go cause I dont want to

[notdog1996 315]

Yes finally! Someone that knows how to cold! (Yes that is proper grammar dont blame me.)

This topic had some convenient timing cause just the other night i watched a doctor who episode where they colonized on mars in the year 2059. Like all doctor who episodes there was paranormal activity but I highly doubt that will happen in real life. We've explored mars plenty times so i dont think anything else has inhabited it yet. But there is frozen water we could use as a hydration source and we could start farms and stuff like that. But i think only certain people would actually wanna go cause I dont want to

(So to cold is a verb?  Now to figure out what it means...)

 

I'm certain that humanity will colonize Mars sooner or later, but I just think that 2025 might be a little early  .  I'm sure some people will want to go, if just for the sake of being immortalized as one of the first few to go on Mars.  I personally don't, though. Humanity might have explored Earth, but I didn't even leave Quebec since I was born .  I need to go to (northern) Europe, not Mars!  

[Shift 4,272]

I wouldn't want to. No internet, no ponies, no... nothing.

 

Well, it's another leap for mankind. We should at least colonize the moon first.

 

And as someone said I wouldn't volunteer unless i'm 100% sure I won't get myself killed.

Edited January 12, 2014 by Shift

[aoEAF2FBvC0MIo2Q 3,673]

These private companies should put their money to better use here on earth like: renewable energy, slowing down global warning, or anything that could help preserve natural resources.

 

Complete waste of time, energy and money if you ask me.

 

A certain former NASA Space Shuttle Program systems engineer would beg to differ.

 

To challenge any doubt you may have of the significance of space exploration, just listen to what Neil DeGrasse Tyson has to say in this video. Please. It'll probably be the best 5 minutes you've spent in quite a while.

 

 

"We went to the moon and we discovered Earth. I claim we discovered Earth for the first time."

[notdog1996 315]

 

A certain former NASA Space Shuttle Program systems engineer would beg to differ.

 

To challenge any doubt you may have of the significance of space exploration, just listen to what Neil DeGrasse Tyson has to say in this video. Please. It'll probably be the best 5 minutes you've spent in quite a while.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFO2usVjfQc

 

"We went to the moon and we discovered Earth. I claim we discovered Earth for the first time."

 

I agree.  My take on this is, if we take money to go to Mars, that same money won't be used on war.  Also, if we really try to terraform Mars, that same technology could be used to depoluate Earth, because, if we can form a planet, than we can clean one, right?

[aoEAF2FBvC0MIo2Q 3,673]

I agree.  My take on this is, if we take money to go to Mars, that same money won't be used on war.  Also, if we really try to terraform Mars, that same technology could be used to de-pollute Earth, because, if we can form a planet, than we can clean one, right?

There's that, yes, although I'd rather have Mars stay the Red Planet that it is...

There are way too many times I wish that I was born in the 22nd century where humanity has hopefully made it out of what I would personally call the Corporatocratic Dark Ages and enjoy the fruits of the struggle of the current generations like watching awesome documentaries of Martian geology. But alas...

[notdog1996 315]

There's that, yes, although I'd rather have Mars stay the Red Planet that it is...

There are way too many times I wish that I was born in the 22nd century where humanity has hopefully made it out of what I would personally call the Corporatocratic Dark Ages and enjoy the fruits of the struggle of the current generations like watching awesome documentaries of Martian geology. But alas...

 

I'm on the line about terraforming, too, because I fear that it would take away from the uniqueness of the planets (or moons, for that matter).  But, I guess we would have to do something to make it habitable.  I just hope we don't end up with Earth two.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Terraforming, and just braving out the martian climate are about as fantastical as using nuclear pulse technolgy to get there in a matter of weeks. Sure it's possible, but that doesn't make it a good idea, and both of which are not technologies that have been explored before-- let alone on a scale required here. (Considering all the hooplah about nuclear pulse drives, just forget I said anything about them.)

 

Terraforming requires orders of magnitude more energy than humans can currently wield. Even if we did, a fast terraforming project would carry out over the order of many centuries. Consider the economic longevity within the current standpoint of modern nations: few people these days are interested in building something that would take 20 years to complete, let alone 500 (assuming we get some wicked-ass technology that could do it lickity-split.) Terraforming technology that does things in minutes or hours, heck even months, would be a power of science fiction. And if we bank on some miraculous thing like the Genesis device from Star Trek, news flash: scientific breakthroughs are more likely to reveal ways that fantastic technologies are impossible, not bringing their existence closer. The most realistic terraforming technology would depend on an investment of time, energy and an inordinate amount of resources, which would resolve a biospheric challege in three thousand years or more. "Assuming we live that long" says a rightfully cynical retort, which then begs the question of how practical the entire proposal would be.

 

In regards to the the atmosphere, forget about just toughing out the cold. It's not like Winnipeg where winter weather consists of gusty -40C and summer weather consists of gusty mosquitos. Sure it may have earth-like temperatures sometimes--during the day and during the summer only--but its atmosphere is 96% Carbon Dioxide, 1.6% Argon, and equivalent to living at 35 000m altitude on earth, at martian sea-level. It doesn't matter how much you don't mind the cold, you're going to be wearing a space-suit anyways. Unless you'd like to regale us some time about how you climbed to the top of four Mt. Everests stacked on top of each other, breathing poison. Barring terraforming, there is no way around it: come to grips with the fact that on Mars, you would always be protected from directly experiencing the Martian atmosphere. You would 100% always be either in a suit or a pressure chamber or be in an emergency situation where death is literally less than a minute away.

 

Of course these are all simply technological challenges that an engineer could solve. The problem is the human factor, whether or not humanity could colonize another world, as they propose. As far as I know, such a matter I would trust to Space-faring organizations who already have the collective experience and know-how to speak far more credibly about their ambition.

 

NASA, the ESA, Roscosmos and other spaceflight organizations came up with a "Roadmap of Exploration" putting their date to land men on Mars at sometime in 2035 (maybe). MarsOne intends on putting their first men on Mars in 2024. Now I don't know about you, but somehow I don't think NASA & Co. are taking those ±10 years developing only a return-craft. With 56 years under their belts, as well as an experience writ with the blood of 21 people who've died reaching the beyond, I somehow think NASA & Co. probably has much more wisdom and know-how on making their prediction for a mission realistic. At least in terms of ensuring livability and scientific success. I am very certain the same can't be said about MarsOne.

Edited March 16, 2014 by Blue

[StarSwirlTheBearded 356]

Mars One is not going to happen.  Not only has no one ever gone to Mars before, but it is a small nonprofit that expects to raise money through a reality show trying to do it.  By sending them for the rest of their lives, all but a few people on earth would be driven insane in those conditions.  Nonetheless, the mission plans and the one-way aspect of it are entertaining, and I sometimes watch application videos.

[Celli 4,338]

I'm pretty sure we'd have to terraform the planet first. Unless you're talking building livable structures. 

 

I think it's a horrible idea.

As humans, we're already destroying earth with polution. So let's ship off a select bunch of crazies and trash another planet?

These private companies should put their money to better use here on earth like: renewable energy, slowing down global warning, or anything that could help preserve natural resources.

Complete waste of time, energy and money if you ask me.

Sorry to be all negative.

I agree 100%

[Khaoios 1,970]

Well, I, for one rather remain on the Blue Planet.   That's because we've got the sea. 
Not to go off tangent, now that I mentioned see, ask yourself this question, (that goes for all), why are we going up and out, while we haven't even discovered our own planets.  Specifically, undiscovered regions, under the sea?

 

dem people living on mars better prepare for a lot of dust storms.

 

Exactly this.