... 60's tech, Steel or Aluminium would be good enough for the pusher plate and graphite would protect it.<br><br>The website says the experimental ship...
... clouds, and if the H2SO4 is too dilute and your using an Iron balloon it might end up dissolving on you. <br><br>You can use a silicon based balloon,...
I have a few subjects to cover regarding the colonisation of Mars. Will we be striving to take care of this planet? Or stuff it up like this one? <br><br>Will...
The project team never said that a manned ship was not possible, and they didn't come up against any technical problems that they didn't think they could ...
>> I have a few subjects to cover regarding the colonisation of Mars. Will<br>>> we be striving to take care of this planet? Or stuff it up like ...
<<Will it just be all corporations running the new colonies? I'm sure they'll exploit it for billions, if not more. Does anyone really give a damn ...
... People seem to think that we can't live without money, and a conversation on this club provided only one particularly monotonous answer, that money is just...
... was not possible, and they didn't come up against any technical problems that they didn't think they could solve.<br><br>I agree, I just think it will be...
There's a venus society club in yahoo, I have recently joined. Terraforming of venus is something I find fascinating, hopefully some discussion will be done...
HI:<br> The question Brooks brings up is an important one.<br>And meybe the fact that there is so little discussion<br>here is funding mechanics for Mars makes...
James Cameron was originally going to make a mini-series for Fox based on Kim Stanely Robinson's Mars books. Then it turned into just being about the first ...
Many years ago, I saw a movie called Salvage 1, which starred Andy Griffith as a junk yard owner who, along with a renegade scientist and some former NASA ...
Hi:<br> Not a bad idea about the show or screenplay !<br> Really, some kind of 'hook' is needed to get the public to pressure congress OR someone like Ted...
Mars has turned into a red planet Rorschach test. Depending on who is doing the looking, pictures snapped by the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) clearly...
By: thorius28 (Steve)<br>> I am listening for ideas that we can all share in and also do something every day to make Mars settlement a reality.<br>> ...
how about this ? can we try testing your bombs and weapons for the army like nuclear testing etc on mars instead of colonizing it? Ofcourse gravity differs but...
How irresponsible could we get?!? Testing nukes on a planet that offers so many potentials for the future of the human race, not to mention the possible ...
Why would you even need to test nukes? We know they work. We already tested them through out the fifties and sixties. (and are still researching them ...
Despite what some people may claim there aren't enough nukes on the planet to make us extinct.<br><br>But there are enough to send us back to the early 19th...
<<Despite what some people may claim there aren't enough nukes on the planet to make us extinct.>><br><br>So there wouldn't be a long lasting cloud...
No Cloud layer and minimal fallout with airbursts which are what the cities will be hit with.<br><br>Ground bursts are the problem when it comes to fallout but...
... that detonating every nuclear weapon would only throw us back two centuries? <br><br>Two centuries is a huge set back. The death toll would be enormous, ...
> Two centuries is a huge set back. The death toll would be enormous, probably 90% or so. Some one third of the species of the planet would go as ...