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No, earth is the best place to develop technologies to settle on another world. Planning a moon base when we can't even build and run a sealed biosphere on ear
by Causality1 7y ago
No, earth is the best place to develop technologies to settle on another world. Planning a moon base when we can't even build and run a sealed biosphere on earth is like looking for sponsors for your F-1 team before learning how to drive a car.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoEarth is a good place to develop and simulate but at one point we need to put this into practice and learn a lot in the process. To use your F-1 analogy: At one point you need to build and an actual car and to drive it on an actual track.
- dTal 7y agoThat "eventually" is much, much further away than where we are now. I won't even begin to take a Mars mission seriously until there are permanent, sealed, self-sufficient bases in the Sahara, Antarctica, etc.
- 0xffff2 7y agoWhy would you need a fully sealed biosphere? It's not like we're going on a solitary one way trip. We've kept the ISS running for enough years to prove that, in terms of biosphere anyway, we have the technology to build a base on the moon or Mars.
- Causality1 7y ago>Indeed, the Moon is the best location to develop and perfect technologies to settle on another planet and to live there autonomously. So which is it? Do we need to build a base on the moon to develop technologies to let us settle Mars or do we not need to go to the moon at all because we already have the technology to build a Mars base?
- 0xffff2 7y agoI responded to something you said. You're quoting something that I never said at me while completely ignoring the substance of my comment. That's no way to have a rational conversation.