(January 3, 2015 at 1:26 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(January 3, 2015 at 11:59 am)IATIA Wrote: What are you going to breath?The logistics of -that- have already been thought out and we're capable (the last bit is hit or miss to an extent, I guess...but astronauts do get screened thoroughly..so we do all we can). The trouble, currently, is actually getting there. Notice they launched our little exploration pod atop an old engine. We still don't have those new engines yet. Big PR push right now to downplay that little kink. A lander and a probe is one thing. Habitation (even with the novel ideas bounced around) is a whole different type of payload.
What are you going to grow?
Where will you put the cows?
And assuming there can be a 'science fiction' domed structure (while disregarding the resources necessary to build and maintain), what group of people can survive in a closed environment.
Talk about cabin fever.hock:
What? Are you one of the Man on Mars people? Sending a human being to Mars is pointless and potentially disastrous. Not that I object to the idea of colonizing Mars, but doing something similar to the moon landing would be extraordinarily pointless. Well, maybe not, if PR is the point, but that's all. What can a person do that a robot can't? Die horrifically on live TV and cancel space exploration forever, for one thing.
People can go to Mars and live there, but we don't even have the beginnings of that technology. We can't built a self-sufficient closed ecosystem that can support human life. We have *no* idea how we might deconstruct and ship our technological base.
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