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2017-09-29 Science & Technology

Moon village the first stop to Mars: European Space Agency

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Posted by Fred 2017-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 It's been shown that you can manufacture oxygen in a controlled environment on Mars, but it helps if you set up camp near one of the poles. Also, it's been shown that the notion of a preliminary outpost on the Moon is a wastefully dumb idea, instead place a number of payloads in one of the Moon's Lagrangian points - assemble in weightlessness, and you're off to Mars.

Powdered soy milk and strawberry (don't forget the Aloe Vera gel - you'll need it because of the radiation) would be excellent for breakfast, and supply ships containing attractive young teenage women (I'll go with Poles again for this one), along with lots of Omaha Steaks, charcoal, some lighter fluid and an apparatus for fermenting whiskry would round out the payload.

Don't know about nitrogen - if it's really necessary simply place bags of the steaks out in the radiation.

Posted by Fairbanks 2017-09-29 01:57|| 2017-09-29 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm too sad because of the differences between the 21st century we expected and the one we got to comment.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-29 02:10|| 2017-09-29 02:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd prefer plans for a moon to "space elevator/tether" which is possible with today's technology to be planned.
Or even electromagnetic cannon for launching cargo.
or a solar-powered mineral extraction device.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-09-29 08:33|| 2017-09-29 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Earthbound solar thermal plant designs are probably a good start on orbital solar plasma cutters for 'mining' of asteroids.

See earlier article about e.railgun launching.

Sometime ago NASA ran a Shuttle tether experiment for orbital power generation.

I think the century is starting OK, other than the failing social engineering.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-29 19:19|| 2017-09-29 19:19|| Front Page Top

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