Colonizing Mars would be a death sentence to any person that goes there.

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Living on Mars is not a long term solution, because you cannot terraform Mars.
If you want to colonize another planet you must be able to terraform it.
But since mars has no magnetic field it will not shield the planet and retain a livable atmosphere for humans.

If you want to colonize another planet you must be able to terraform it, and if you must be able to terraform it the planet must have a magnetic field.
Solar flares is not enough.
Mars is not it, our next planet is has yet to be discovered.

From the research I’ve seen, terraforming is possible by creating a greenhouse effect but it’s not a long term solution like you said. It’s too small to maintain a thick atmosphere like the one on earth as well as there being no magnetic field which leaves you at the mercy of cosmic rays. These deficiencies is part of why it became how it became in the first place.

Also, one of its asteroid moons is destined to crash into the planet so that’s a disaster waiting to happen.

NASA Believes It Knows How To Make Mars Green Again

NASA proposes building artificial magnetic field to restore Mars' atmosphere - ExtremeTech
 

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What if I told you everything on Mars is underground :shaq:

Underground colonies would be ideal, but then you would have to determine how deep. It would take millions of workers and decades to complete. It's not really feasible.


it would be easier building a Star Trek Enterprise ship with artificial gravity and warp drives, than ferrying people and materials to mars for something lake that.
 

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At some point Colonizing Mars and other Planets will need to happen. In terms of where we are though, it takes 7-9 Months just to get to Mars and 7-9 for a return trip. So that's a year and a half in space. Even what can be thought of colonizing wouldn't be what you see in movies, it would be something compact and small probably smaller than a normal bedroom with current tech.
 
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I would opine beyond Mars. One thing that is not often considered for exoplanets exploration by humanity is the symbiosis of us with earth regarding food. We are here and we’re able to evolve because somehow the animals and plants we consume are good for us at the chemical compounds level. Just imagine an exoplanet with plenty of animals and plants but where molecular compounds chirality is opposite. Our stomachs won’t be able to process the food despite its abundance.
 
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the closest exoplanet is only 4 light years away and even that’s too far.
What we define as far is to be able to travel to an exoplanet in a human lifetime. At 10% light speed, a ship could reach Alpha-Centauri in 40 years. Ever since I realized that I could face time someone in Japan in real time and know what he is eating, I believe that nothing is impossible for humanity to achieve as long as it doesn't break the laws of known physics.
 

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What we define as far is to be able to travel to an exoplanet in a human lifetime. At 10% light speed, a ship could reach Alpha-Centauri in 40 years. Ever since I realized that I could face time someone in Japan in real time and know what he is eating, I believe that nothing is impossible for humanity to achieve as long as it doesn't break the laws of known physics.

but that’s not the only obstacle you have to negotiate.

what fuel source are u going to use to power the ship for that long and that fast?

How are the passengers going to live in zero gravity for that long?


Everyone would be senior citizens by the time you reached so who would replace them?

But let’s say you do get there. Communication with earth would be a problem. It will take 8 years for them to send a message and get a response. 16 years for two responses. 24 years for the third.

It’s not realistic.
 
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but that’s not the only obstacle you have to negotiate.

what fuel source are u going to use to power the ship for that long and that fast?

How are the passengers going to live in zero gravity for that long?


Everyone would be senior citizens by the time you reached so who would replace them?

But let’s say you do get there. Communication with earth would be a problem. It will take 8 years for them to send a message and get a response. 16 years for two responses. 24 years for the third.

It’s not realistic.

[Q1]What fuel source are u going to use to power the ship for that long and that fast?
If you were the expert navigator during Christopher Columbus era riding the Galleon, your mindset about fuel will be about wind. It took centuries of discoveries in energy and chemistry to create argol,propergol, etc.
The fuel your thinking about will be created in a paradigm shift that is impossible for me and you to think about right now.

[Q2] How are the passengers going to live in zero gravity for that long
Maybe create artificial gravity. I agree that studies on the long term effects of life in zero g must be performed first.

[Q3] Communication with earth would be a problem. It will take 8 years for them to send a message and get a response. 16 years for two responses
I don't see the need of constant communication with earth. This type of endevor requires the team to be self sufficient and mission program managers should design it that way knowing the real time communication constraints.

I am confident that it will happen in the next 2-3 centuries at current progress level if we don't have setbacks due to wars, climate change, COVID-88, etc.
 

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What we define as far is to be able to travel to an exoplanet in a human lifetime. At 10% light speed, a ship could reach Alpha-Centauri in 40 years. Ever since I realized that I could face time someone in Japan in real time and know what he is eating, I believe that nothing is impossible for humanity to achieve as long as it doesn't break the laws of known physics.

Humanity's future is dependent on re-defining known physics or just simply re-defining what is known.
 
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