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I would love for human settlements to happen faster, but the #1 issue is food. Mars does not have living soil and packaged food is not sustainable. Yes, we can
by tagami 5y ago
I would love for human settlements to happen faster, but the #1 issue is food. Mars does not have living soil and packaged food is not sustainable. Yes, we can probably engineer a way to get there and back, but what level of health will the returning astronauts be in? It's the robots until we figure that out.
- cercatrova 5y agoIf Matt Damon can do it, so can we
- chii 5y agoint he movie, he barely was able to do it, and almost died but for some luck.
- avmich 5y agoWe have hydroponics. We can create soil over time, modeling the same cycle we have on Earth. This makes the problem more quantitative, rather than qualitative. The bigger problems are still radiation and lack of (Earth) weight. For both we have ideas, some data and results, and both need to be addressed more. Other issues, like meteoroids on the way there and back again, or lack of resources, seem to be of a lesser caliber.