@weplaychess90 said in #1:
> www.newscientist.com/article/dn10573-space-mirrors-could-create-earth-like-haven-on-mars/
Thanks for the info
> www.newscientist.com/article/dn10573-space-mirrors-could-create-earth-like-haven-on-mars/
Thanks for the info
> providing extra heat and solar power for human colonists
Colonists or settlers? We have to decide now if it's going to be a colony or a settlement. What would you prefer?
Colonists or settlers? We have to decide now if it's going to be a colony or a settlement. What would you prefer?
No it could not.
Not in any foreseeable future.
What about all the other problems, that comes with having a base on Mars?
Servere weather, lack of resources, expensive(who will pay?), astroid and meteor impacts, solar flares, or the social impact for humans being stuck in a confined space etc.
Look at Greenland for example:
They suffer severe social issues, lack of manpower, lack of housing, high cost of living, dangerous environment that can change rapidly, various health issues, for example if one get a flue or bad stomach, it often spreads rapid to the whole community.
Cost of traveling too and from.
Greenland is a safer place than Mars.
I mean even if they can warm up frozen water on Mars, that doesn't make it drinkable.
So should people just use it as a hot tub, where they can relax, while still wearing their spacesuits? :-)
Not in any foreseeable future.
What about all the other problems, that comes with having a base on Mars?
Servere weather, lack of resources, expensive(who will pay?), astroid and meteor impacts, solar flares, or the social impact for humans being stuck in a confined space etc.
Look at Greenland for example:
They suffer severe social issues, lack of manpower, lack of housing, high cost of living, dangerous environment that can change rapidly, various health issues, for example if one get a flue or bad stomach, it often spreads rapid to the whole community.
Cost of traveling too and from.
Greenland is a safer place than Mars.
I mean even if they can warm up frozen water on Mars, that doesn't make it drinkable.
So should people just use it as a hot tub, where they can relax, while still wearing their spacesuits? :-)
"Cody's Lab" seriously try to implement a low-budget Mars ecosystem in the middle of the desert.
We have still to walk on the moon.
What would be the whole point of settling Mars? What resources does the planet have that we so desperately need?
Mars bars.
I mean, to be fair, I'm pretty sure the Portuguese sailed the world for spices.
Other factors should also be considered not least of which are the lack of a magnetic field and the fact that Martian soil is not suitable for crop cultivation.
The best I can see for Mars is a dependency and not a full fledged self sustaining colony.
The best I can see for Mars is a dependency and not a full fledged self sustaining colony.