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"You won't know the what the severe issues are till you are there and trying to stay alive will be a great motivator to solve problems quickly. Simulating Mars
by maxxxxx 8y ago
"You won't know the what the severe issues are till you are there and trying to stay alive will be a great motivator to solve problems quickly. Simulating Mars gravity on Earth is impossible so Mars is going to be the best place to build a working model of a Mars colony.
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Gravity is probably one of the smaller problems. I don't see the point of going to Mars until we have a lot of experience doing similar things on the Moon or just on Earth. We should also have done a lot of long-distance flights like going to an Asteroid or just orbiting Mars first.
Right now a Mars colony would be plain suicide.
- hutzlibu 8y ago"Right now a Mars colony would be plain suicide. " If the plan is to have a self-sustaining colony, then yes. But if supply flights are guarantied, I don't see the problem. You can grow food in space. We do. We just can't have a enclosed system yet and are probably quite far away from it. But I agree, that I think it makes much sense to do more ground- and moonwork first.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> But if supply flights are guarantied Nothing in spaceflight is guaranteed, and Earth-Mars spaceflight is a lot less subject to guarantee than Earth-ISS spaceflight, which hasn't been trouble free.
- hutzlibu 8y agoSure, but supplies last a bit and can be made reduntant. So as long as there is a steady stream, wheter every half year or 2 years .. it is possible. Expensive, sure, but possible.