How do we get rich off this?
How do we get rich off this?
Hunter Foster
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Aaron Walker
You don’t goyim
Brody Perez
Buy land on Phobos. Fuck it, buy it all.
It's literally the best place in our solar system for manufacturing interstellar ships.
Owen Hall
Care to explain?
Kayden Nelson
I own Mars. If you would like to invest in land there, let me know.
Grayson Martin
One of my friends got a gag gift one time of 3 acres of the moon. If we ever did start building things up there, would his ownership of that land be considered legitimate?
Jace Parker
No. Nobody owns the moon, it’s effectively treated like international waters IIRC.
Dominic Gray
Going to Mars is a fucking stupid idea. Don't get me wrong, Space Exploration is vital for humanity, but it's just not currently technologically feasible to begin to deal with something like this.
Major problems:
1. Long exposure to low gravity. This needs to be solved with a ship containing spinning compartments (a Centrifuge section), otherwise people travelling to Mars, and perhaps beyond one day, are gonna be incredibly fucked.
2. Radiation. They're going to have to time missions according to when the Sun's magnetic field offers its best protection from Galactic Cosmic Radiation. An what happens if there's some freak solar storm or coronal mass ejection? Do they literally need to take onboard a compartment made out of Lead?
3. Crew insanity. You can't keep people locked up in a tin can, floating far away from home for fucking months, or at least it's really hard to find those kinds of people.
Global space efforts should be well co-ordinated before Humans even consider going to another planet. Not a retarded bunch of countries comparing dick size in space capabilities, each changing long term space effort plans whenever there's a change in political leadership. It must be a united effort, on behalf of our long term future, as a species. It's admirable what private companies are offering to do, but I just don't see how it could be possible.
We should focus on building and maintaining a solid presence on the Moon (perhaps forming some revenue source from Helium Isotope mining, especially if Fusion energy generation hopefully starts gaining momentum) and perhaps some near Earth Asteroids, for the foreseeable decades. Not dreaming ideas of suicide missions to Mars.
Gavin Ramirez
1. Low, but non-zero gravity allows putting together huge structures without orbital gymnastics to keep them in place or for docking.
2. Low orbital speed of ~8 m/s allows putting stuff in and out of orbit for practically free (compared to 7800 m/s on Earth or 1800 m/s on the Moon)
3. Low delta-v requirement to Mars's langrangian points allows efficient interplanetary transits.
4. Appears to be composed of a high metal content that would reduce the amount of material that needs to be shipped in. Plus possible presence of water ice.
5. Proximity to low-gravity planet makes uplift of resources and personnel cost a fraction compared to that of Earth.
For 1., that's not a huge technical challenge, although it really needs to start getting tested soon.
For 2., water is an excellent radiation buffer, and is needed anyway for the crew aboard, so there may not even be any additional costs, just fill the outer walls of crew compartments with water.
For 3., yeah this is difficult, and for "normal" people it would require spaceships of a size similar to cruise ships, or hibernation technology.
Jose James
Damn, now I wish Earth had a phobos-like satellite.