Landing people on Mars: 5 obstacles
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Landing people on Mars: 5 obstacles
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#2i really hope this happens within my lifetime.
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#3I never understood why we abandoned the Moon. It’s only three days away compared to the eight months it takes to get to Mars and it also has water. We should first establish a base on Moon and then venture on to other planets.
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#4I never understood why we abandoned the Moon. It’s only three days away compared to the eight months it takes to get to Mars and it also has water. We should first establish a base on Moon and then venture on to other planets.
We didn't have direct evidence that the Moon had water until recently (in late 2009 when the LCROSS mission impacted a shadowed crater in search of water: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS#Presence_of_water)
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#5Terraform the moon first.
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#6About the quarter pounders transportation problem, space elevators sounds like a great solution. Still, doesn't sound like a big gain to get humans to Mars besides as a trophy. Better to send machines with tech greater than 90's 2MP cameras. We're all gonna be replaced by machines anyway after the singularity in a few decades.
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#7The sex issue is just frivolous. E.g. I haven't had anything but rejection from a woman in three years, I'm perfectly healthy and functional, and I'm not being carefully chosen for one of the most groundbreaking missions for the human race.
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#8I never understood why we abandoned the Moon. It’s only three days away compared to the eight months it takes to get to Mars and it also has water. We should first establish a base on Moon and then venture on to other planets.
We didn't have direct evidence that the Moon had water until recently (in late 2009 when the LCROSS mission impacted a shadowed crater in search of water: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS#Presence_of_water )
But that's my point. It took us forty years from initial landing to find out if there is water on the planet exactly because we abandoned Moon landings.
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#9The sex issue is just frivolous. E.g. I haven't had anything but rejection from a woman in three years, I'm perfectly healthy and functional, and I'm not being carefully chosen for one of the most groundbreaking missions for the human race.
Yes but I guess the women who rejected you don't live in the same house as you do. Imagine living in close quarters with a bunch of people and some of them are having sex while you don't. You'd have to seclude yourself from them to suppress your feelings and then the whole project would go south.
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#10tl;dr: It'll take a long time, people will have much more exposure to radiation (and cancer), people need sex, muscle/bone degradation from being that long in space, and cost of getting things there.