• Mars One teams up with Lockheed Martin and SSTL to develop technology to colonize Mars by 2025
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[quote]Yesterday, Netherlands-based private spaceflight project Mars One announced the companies it hopes will build the technology necessary for the first private mission to Mars. Lockheed Martin and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. were awarded contracts to study and develop concepts for a Mars lander and a data link satellite, respectively, for a 2018 exploratory mission. If that mission is successful, Mars One hopes to begin a human colony on Mars by 2025. The lander, based on Lockheed's successful Phoenix spacecraft, and satellite would each test technologies needed to sustain human life on another planet.[/quote] [url]http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/one-way-manned-mission-mars-just-got-closer-reality?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=6&con=oneway-manned-mission-to-mars-just-got-closer-to-reality[/url]
I would give my entire life to a cause like this. You have no idea how happy it makes me for this sort of development to be happening; this is the direction human kind should be headed towards.
Remember kids, we're going to have a fucking Mars colony in your lifetime. Were are rapidly making space our bitch. Now start funding NASA again, US government.
This is the best time to be an aerospace engineer. I can't wait to graduate
[QUOTE=Reds;43170484]Remember kids, we're going to have a fucking Mars colony in your lifetime. Were are rapidly making space our bitch. Now start funding NASA again, US government.[/QUOTE] A company must have the balls to find a way to mine asteroids, and governments would be all over that shit
it blows my mind that we get to read a news article like this in our lifetimes.
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;43170507]A company must have the balls to find a way to mine asteroids, and governments would be all over that shit[/QUOTE] Send probe out to a suitable asteroid, have probe push it (slowly) toward earth's orbit, then mine it once it's here.
Whatever they do i hope they don't use cockroaches.
I'd rather know what was in our own oceans and how to fix our planet before worrying about taking over other planets.
While very cool news, I'm still very very sceptical to their projected goals and their whole mean of getting money.
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;43170601]I'd rather know what was in our own oceans and how to fix our planet before worrying about taking over other planets.[/QUOTE] On the flip side of it, if we were able to successfully make a self-sustaining colony on another world we would finally have a (for want of a better word) "backup plan" in case something catastrophic happened down here on Earth. The easiest way to ensure the long-term survival of humanity is in colonizing other planets. Besides, who says we can't do all of that at once?
[QUOTE=Swebonny;43170615]While very cool news, I'm still very very sceptical to their projected goals and their whole mean of getting money.[/QUOTE] Annoying how projects like this aren't getting properly funded. So much we can gain and learn from projects/missions like this.
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;43170507]A company must have the balls to find a way to mine asteroids, and governments would be all over that shit[/QUOTE] I give you an asteroid mining company. [url]http://www.planetaryresources.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;43170601]I'd rather know what was in our own oceans and how to fix our planet before worrying about taking over other planets.[/QUOTE] Why do people always present it as an either or situation. We're doing both, right now.
Wait, so does this effectively give Mars One a little bit of legitimacy? If so, that's [b]FUCKING AWESOME[/b].
whoah guys hold on, everyone knows only colossal militaristic empires survive the test of SPACE. I'd prefer Terrans band together under something with a bit more Umph than the U.N, instead of different countries and corporations slinging shit at each other only in space.
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;43170601]I'd rather know what was in our own oceans and how to fix our planet before worrying about taking over other planets.[/QUOTE] When is our planet 'fixed'? It's such a silly thing to say. There's a lot of us so we should do everything we can achieve.
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;43170601]I'd rather know what was in our own oceans and how to fix our planet before worrying about taking over other planets.[/QUOTE] so as far as you're concerned humanity is effectively a single person that is incapable of focusing on multiple things simultaneously [editline]13th December 2013[/editline] let's just force all aeronautic engineers on earth to resign from their jobs. sorry guys, you have to be oceanographers now
[QUOTE=Clavus;43171155]When is our planet 'fixed'? It's such a silly thing to say. There's a lot of us so we should do everything we can achieve.[/QUOTE] I think he means we should go back in time and kill all the photosynthetic bacteria in the Earth's oceans before they pump oxygen into the air and fuck shit up.
I still don't know why we don't already have a self substaining colony on the moon or mars. You would think after that air burst explosion over russia: [video=youtube;dpmXyJrs7iU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU[/video] Stuff like this could happen on a larger scale and pretty much kill everyone at any fucking time. I know they have multiple programs that track earth killing asteroids, but there are still some we don't see. If we have colonies that were on mars and the moon and say earth gets smashed by a big baddie, we would have a way to go back to earth and salvage what's left man. Humanity will live. Sorry for the rant I just hate how he stopped the space race.
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;43170601]I'd rather know what was in our own oceans and how to fix our planet before worrying about taking over other planets.[/QUOTE] our planet is broken?
[QUOTE=Sector 7;43173874]our planet is broken?[/QUOTE] Yeah, the transmission is busted
[QUOTE=Vilusia;43173493]I still don't know why we don't already have a self substaining colony on the moon or mars. You would think after that air burst explosion over russia: [video=youtube;dpmXyJrs7iU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU[/video] Stuff like this could happen on a larger scale and pretty much kill everyone at any fucking time. I know they have multiple programs that track earth killing asteroids, but there are still some we don't see. If we have colonies that were on mars and the moon and say earth gets smashed by a big baddie, we would have a way to go back to earth and salvage what's left man. Humanity will live. Sorry for the rant I just hate how he stopped the space race.[/QUOTE] TBH we have the technology to redirect an asteroid provided we detect it in time. The biggest threat to the continuation of our species is ourselves. The colonization of Mars would be the best way to insure our survival simply because of the statistical improbability of both Mars and Earth experiencing catastrophe at the same time. [editline]13th December 2013[/editline] It really doesn't take much to redirect an asteroid believe it or not. One way to do it is to simply paint one side of it white and watch as the sun gently alters its course to completely miss Earth.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;43174074] The biggest threat to the continuation of our species is ourselves. [/QUOTE] Don't forget supernovas in the neighboring star systems :eng101:
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;43174132]Don't forget supernovas in the neighboring star systems :eng101:[/QUOTE] That isn't even close to being a threat to us. No stars near us are close to going supernova, and the chances of a GRB even hitting us are extremely small.
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;43170601]I'd rather know what was in our own oceans and how to fix our planet before worrying about taking over other planets.[/QUOTE]We [I]can[/I] do both. It's a matter of government spending priorities; if they'd stop spending money on e.g. tanks that the Army don't even want, they'd have plenty enough for both.
What is this, three good news articles in one day? I'm positively feeling jubilant.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;43174188]We [I]can[/I] do both. It's a matter of government spending priorities; if they'd stop spending money on e.g. tanks that the Army don't even want, they'd have plenty enough for both.[/QUOTE] Except Mars One is a private program, not a public government funded one. Government spending doesn't matter all that much. If Viral is so concerned about the ocean, he ought to go study it. Most people don't care and just want to study space.
[quote]Mars One hopes to begin a human colony on Mars by 2025.[/quote] So in other words the planning will be done in 2025, construction will start in 2050, and humans will be there permanently in 2100
[QUOTE=Zeke129;43174424]So in other words the planning will be done in 2025, construction will start in 2050, and humans will be there permanently in 2100[/QUOTE] I'm not sure how you got that from the sentence. [url]http://www.mars-one.com/en/roadmap2026[/url] The first 3 crews will be there permanently, or at least until they die. No, we won't have a full scale human city on mars by 2025 and yes it will likely be a couple hundred years (and thats optimistic) until we have that but its at the very least a start. If we just continue to sit back and say its not good enough we'll never get there.
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