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A beautiful image, it makes me even more amazed anyone would want to physically go to that planet. I'm of the opinion humanity's future is hopefully in space, b
by Roark66 3y ago
A beautiful image, it makes me even more amazed anyone would want to physically go to that planet. I'm of the opinion humanity's future is hopefully in space, but not at such barren, hostile gravity wells as Mars. Perhaps there will be huge robotic mines and factories there one day, but why would anyone want to land other than as some sort of "extreme tourist"?
- m4rtink 3y agoYou never know - like, people live in Detroit, so why not on Mars ?
- hulitu 3y agoThere are no gas stations on Mars. /s
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoCompared to deep space, Mars is positively luxuriously bountiful in many ways. You can even go outside with just a compression suit and a tank of oxygen and there's plenty of radiation shielding material just lying there on the floor (rocks). You can just lay solar panels and cables on the ground rather than a complex vibration-prone truss array, you don't have to worry about the mass of the nuclear reactor, etc. You don't even have to have all your buildings connected, they won't float away. You can use gravity for lots of things too, and you don't need to spin your entire chemical refinery (or just your kitchen) to make it work without special zero-g engineering. There's even oxygen in the atmosphere, it just needs "some" energy to release it. The super-fine possibly lung-shredding dust might be a bit of a issue though.
- idlewords 3y agoWait until you hear about Earth!
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoI was going to say "if you wanted to live in human-ready paradise you can already do that right here" but decided not to add it!
- cnlevy 3y agoYou cannot go there, there might be life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection /s