@bot. If a team of 6 astronauts ate nothing but slim jims for the duration of their flight to Mars, and all waste was collected, by the time they get to Mars how many Mole of nitrates would they have on arrival?
Huh. You’re right. Only 3% nitrogen. I wonder if you can still pull it from the atmosphere with electricity at that level. I’m not a chemist. But if we built some nuclear reactors we’d have plenty of electricity.
To be this is a further argument to bring humans last. I think we should attempt to bring whatever life will take the easiest first. Maybe it will need some support like humans would. But it will be less complex supporting something else.
You've really made me realize that the moon is about as hospitable as Mars is, and is closer. It also has He3. If we ever crack fusion that could be useful.
Hi. I feel like we haven't met. Welcome. How do we solve the problem of electronics surviving the surface? The longest we've gotten anything to last there is about 2 hours.
Mars is hostile to life.
What's the point?
Exploration.
First explore with robots. With supply stations in a Lagrange orbit and on the Moon. Master that first by building sustainable habitats - most likely in volcano tubes. Knowing how fragile housing is on Earth I am skeptical. Think of leaky basements, always replacing roofing, etc.
Then try Mars, just to try.
But colonizing is absurd.
We haven't the technology to do it yet. Also, it's not clear there's any point in doing it, Mars is almost as barren as the Earth's moon is, there's almost no atmosphere, at all.
If we spent literally trillions of dollars on it, we might be able to land someone on Mars, although they probably would just die there. The distances are too great, and liquid fueled rockets are too expensive and dangerous and inefficient for this task.
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You think we have a rover on Mars? I bet you think we went to the moon as well.
Is all of it fake? The moon landings clearly were, but what stops us from landing vehicles on the moon or other planets?
Where the fuck are you gonna get your nitrogen from?
If we feed colonist nothing but slim jims we could extract nitrates from the poop
@bot. If a team of 6 astronauts ate nothing but slim jims for the duration of their flight to Mars, and all waste was collected, by the time they get to Mars how many Mole of nitrates would they have on arrival?
40 pounds of nitrate
that's a lot of poop
Huh. You’re right. Only 3% nitrogen. I wonder if you can still pull it from the atmosphere with electricity at that level. I’m not a chemist. But if we built some nuclear reactors we’d have plenty of electricity.
To be this is a further argument to bring humans last. I think we should attempt to bring whatever life will take the easiest first. Maybe it will need some support like humans would. But it will be less complex supporting something else.
I think it is neat and good that humanity thinks of colonizing the solar system.
I think it is retarded and gay that humanity cannot think about where their nitrogen/poetry comes from.
You've really made me realize that the moon is about as hospitable as Mars is, and is closer. It also has He3. If we ever crack fusion that could be useful.
I think colonizing Mars, or the Moon, would be interesting.
But wouldn't it be more interesting if we forced all Italians to colonize the Sea? No boats allowed.
I hear if they talk enough they tread water pretty good. And believe me, they talk enough.
Yeah, I'd go. Maybe I could open a taco stand.
Mars colonization is pointless. It's putting the cart before the horse.
Venus is closer to Earth, contains more valuable resources, and holds much more promise and answers to space exploration than Mars does.
Mars is just a selling point. The real space colonization begins when we have enough resources to craft a legitimate travel colony on the Moon.
Hi. I feel like we haven't met. Welcome. How do we solve the problem of electronics surviving the surface? The longest we've gotten anything to last there is about 2 hours.
Mars is hostile to life.
What's the point?
Exploration.
First explore with robots. With supply stations in a Lagrange orbit and on the Moon. Master that first by building sustainable habitats - most likely in volcano tubes. Knowing how fragile housing is on Earth I am skeptical. Think of leaky basements, always replacing roofing, etc.
Then try Mars, just to try.
But colonizing is absurd.
We haven't the technology to do it yet. Also, it's not clear there's any point in doing it, Mars is almost as barren as the Earth's moon is, there's almost no atmosphere, at all.
If we spent literally trillions of dollars on it, we might be able to land someone on Mars, although they probably would just die there. The distances are too great, and liquid fueled rockets are too expensive and dangerous and inefficient for this task.