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2/26/2015 1:22:22 AM
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Do they think its livable??? Also i read that there are gonna be 26 or so people who are gonna go live on mars. Its true, they plan to do it soon. I think first 5 people are going then the rest will follow if all goes well. The crazy part is that they aren't gonna be coming back. That suuuuks XD
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Most settlers died, the later waves survived from the lessons of the dead. It'll be the same with Mars expect we can live off of years supply of food that is the size of your thumb and 5x more nutritional than a 3 course meal. The settler ran out of food in days, some boats had nothing but starving men and women that feasted off of berries that they didn't even know we're good or bad and what small animals they could find close to shore. Mars will have constant re supply on top of green houses with controlled food source from every ship. No doubt there will be major problems like the settlers from back in the day. Only one way to know for sure. Theory is always open to being completely wrong.
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I read that by the time they get to mars, they'll aprox only have food left for 60 days though. So they're gonna have to build a greenhouse for vegetables etc
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Oh wow really? Will they be able to build one fast enough and big enough to sustain humans. We eat a lot of food and veggies isn't exactly enough unless you get certain ones, which they could take a month to a few weeks to bare anything edible.
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I know they really gotta hurry to build their stuff so they don't die. Also i wonder how they will generate enough oxygen to survive. But that won't come till around 2025 so maybe they'll have a means of growing crops quickly like the other person said
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Yes, by then we will be better equipped for such a journey.
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Well that mars 1 way trip is a private venture not nasa, and its still in the very early aspirational days. They are not going to go up there to live a week then die. They won't go till they have a sustainable plan for them to live there. The technology they need to sustain life on mars largly exsists, but getting it together and in a form reliable enough to trust your life in, is going to take time and tons of money.
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True, i beleive its 2025 they're supposed to go, like you said they're planning on better technology by then, still i wouldn't do it
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Its really no different than the first settlers in the US, that boat ride was about the same time as a trip to mars would be now(3 months), and most of them were going with no plans to come back. I'd probably go.
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XD did you just compare going through space from one planet to another, with mars having no sign of life/vegetation to a boat trip across the ocean to a foreign land with a guarantee of food and water?
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Edited by Eluminary: 2/26/2015 2:56:26 AM400+ years ago the world was a very different place. Travel time is the same no mail no planes no internet no phone, infact settlers in the us will be far more cut off than people on mars would be. Mars will have no hostile natives or malaria, in alot of ways it was harder for the first US settlers. Many of the first us settlers starved to death. Crops failed due to unknown weather they didn't know what to forage for. The thanksgiving story those people all would have starved the first year without help from native Americans. (Largly a mistake on their part)
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The native americans only got hostile after the whites tried to take over their land. They helped out the whites, without them the whites probably woulda died. My point was that there was a way to grow food, a source of meat and water. All they had to do was learn how to grow food and catch animals. On mars, they basically are going to a dead planet, they're gonna have to bring their own food and create an ecosystem of which to grow vegetation. Totally different man
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Soil has usable nutrients we have hydroponics to grow food that won't depend on weather like theirs did. Plus they can go with 20 years of freeze dried food. If they ran out or got close dropping them anothere 20 years worth would be cheap and easy compared to sending them there.
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Btw are they assuming the soil is ok or do they have solid proof. Because they speculate there's water under ground on mars but they have no proof.
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Hydroponics uses virtually no soil at all just nutrients in solution.
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Thats pretty cool
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Still different though
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Nope.
