Some of you may be familiar with the Kim Stanley Robinson novel, Red Mars, where a small collection scientists are sent to Mars to explore, study, and prepare the planet for habitation. Well, the idea seems to be gaining a foothold in the actual scientific community now.
Here is a brief article about this proposal...
Here is a brief article about this proposal...
He and Davies believe a Mars base would offer humanity a "lifeboat" if Earth became uninhabitable.
"We are on a vulnerable planet," Schulze-Makuch said. "Asteroid impact can threaten us, or a supernova explosion. If we want to survive as a species, we have to expand into the solar system and likely beyond."
"We are on a vulnerable planet," Schulze-Makuch said. "Asteroid impact can threaten us, or a supernova explosion. If we want to survive as a species, we have to expand into the solar system and likely beyond."
(1) Doesn't Mars have a thinner atmosphere and therefore more threatened by radiation?
(2) Any sort of seismic activities would likely destroy any sort of shelter that they'd be able to set up there.
(3) How is moving to Mars supposed to help with surviving a supernova? I don't think moving to ANY planet in our range for the foreseeable future would help if the sun goes nova.
Just my 3 questions.
Kirk: Spock, you want to know something? Everybody’s human.
Spock: I find that remark…insulting.
Spock: I find that remark…insulting.
Scientists propose one way trip to Mars.
- 15/11/2010 04:35:40 PM
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Interesting idea but a non-starter
- 15/11/2010 05:04:38 PM
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Plenty of volunteers can be found for a suicide mission to Mars.
- 15/11/2010 05:22:10 PM
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You may know more about it than I do, but I'm not sure you're right.
- 15/11/2010 06:26:16 PM
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I think you may be under estimating how much supplies two people would need to last them forty years
- 15/11/2010 07:50:24 PM
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Re: I think you may be under estimating how much supplies two people would need to last them forty
- 15/11/2010 10:20:48 PM
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- 16/11/2010 10:48:39 PM
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Re: I think you may be under estimating how much supplies two people would need to last them forty
- 15/11/2010 11:26:51 PM
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- 16/11/2010 10:48:39 PM
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I half-expected the body of this post to read "... for their ex-wives." *NM*
- 15/11/2010 07:38:50 PM
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I've been. Cold, dusty, a little dry... got some pretty pictures, though. *NM*
- 15/11/2010 10:26:43 PM
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Paul Davies wrote one of my favorite books: God and the New Physics. Excellent book.
- 16/11/2010 04:52:03 AM
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Can we nominate passengers?
- 16/11/2010 01:52:06 PM
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"We are on a vulnerable planet,"
- 20/11/2010 01:34:01 PM
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