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One Way Ticket to Mars. Any Volunteers?
thirdeyeconcept.org — NASA engineer believes a human mission to Mars is quite doable, and such an event would unify the world as never before. "I don ’t think there would be any shortage of people willing to volunteer for the mission..."
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- starmanjones, on 03/09/2008, -0/+1if i was convinced that it wasn't a suicide mission... but i don't really get why one person. if you eliminate the need to return then why not launch supply ships ahead and land a team that would then figure out the boot strapping needed for others. sure the provisions are more but... not so much that it isn't doable still. send 3 two astronaut no return missions.
ive never really bought the all the expense thing. its infrastructure to get there... having no infrastructure is expensive. build the pre-supply ships almost expendable. damn... some didn't make it. use some kind of tether release thing and fling'em... too many G's for me but not for my supplies.
if its not a suicide mission then we're going to have shelter from the radiation. send a big kevlar bag that inflates with that foam sealer you can buy at home depot. drop it in one of those holes and let it inflate. it will seal tight against he wall. take a snow blower and bury the damn thing. get the beans growing.
i think there is this problem with "oh thats too big" mentality. i know all the horror stories about mir... they had to fight for their lives on more than one occasion but it worked. its dangerous. don't screw up. thats what its going to take if the "we" want to go.
ya i'll risk my life on the bet i can survive. in a second. - dolphus, on 03/09/2008, -0/+1We can do better than that though! NASA seems to be rather self-limiting and stuck in the past. Tech has been around for a good long while that can get to Mars quickly. Check out the nuclear propelled rocket described in Make Magazine Volume 12. For examples of space successes outside NASA, check out spacex.com
- starmanjones, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1i am a fan of NASA. i can make a case that the science and tech that was created there has spurred nearly every thing we call normal today. electronics. weather. materials. computers. they did it. but they are essentially a research organization. nobody does that better or safer. when its time to take what they created and use in business and production their rules are still research. talking about doing it like we do is just not in the same train of thought. if they would go into a mission with our "oh well we know we'll loose a few people" attitude then NASA would have been shutdown. it was different.
but when scaled composites put up spaceshipone using stick and rudder at mach speeds and built it out of the same basic stuff my boat is made of... . they did with 20 some odd people? ya. that is real. that is something i can relate too.
everytime i see a shuttle ready to deorbit i know the astronauts not flying it are wishing they were riding a feather home. the pilots are busy keeping control of an out of control situation using computers that should be scrapped. . yikes.
but i always remind people they did it on the back of NASA.
- starmanjones, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1i am a fan of NASA. i can make a case that the science and tech that was created there has spurred nearly every thing we call normal today. electronics. weather. materials. computers. they did it. but they are essentially a research organization. nobody does that better or safer. when its time to take what they created and use in business and production their rules are still research. talking about doing it like we do is just not in the same train of thought. if they would go into a mission with our "oh well we know we'll loose a few people" attitude then NASA would have been shutdown. it was different.
- sourceholder, on 03/09/2008, -0/+1Please link to the REAL article next time. It was published here:
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/04/a-one-way- ...- starmanjones, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1i don't pay that much attention. sorry.
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