RE: Mars?
January 3, 2015 at 1:26 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2015 at 1:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(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:
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