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Post by slayernz on Jan 6, 2014 19:32:41 GMT -5
There has only been one attempt to have a martian probe go to Mars, collect a sample and then return. Named Fobos-Grunt, it had problems during launch and ended up being stranded for a time in low-earth orbit before eventually re-entering the atmosphere again and disintegrating. So the return part worked really well ... they just didn't throw it far enough
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2014 20:36:37 GMT -5
More of that lowest bidder shit again. I almost signed up for that mars one colony gig, but 99.9% of corporations will never invest in something that won't give returns the same fiscal year. The government is too busy pulling money out of NASA and stuffing it up the military industrial complex's ass...
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Post by ntsheep on Jan 6, 2014 20:40:51 GMT -5
My martian reference is part of a movie line. I will give you guys 24 hours to figure it out then I will tell you.
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Post by slayernz on Jan 6, 2014 20:49:01 GMT -5
The biggest detractor from the one colony thing is that even if they did get the $6b funding for the first group, the novelty wears off very quickly and before you know it, the org has declared bankruptcy and the 4 poor schmucks on Mars are suddenly without new supplies unless a government bails them out for the rest of their lives (little chance of that).
That, and the radiation ... and the heavy reliance on solar power for everything including food/air generation ... and the close confinement ... and the transformer robots that took out the Beagle probe ...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2014 22:23:34 GMT -5
Radiation isn't a big deal as long as they have enough dirt over their heads, there's about a gallon of water, If you took about a cubic foot of the dirt and heated it up, you'd get a couple of pints of water out of it, solar power generation technology recently quadrupled its efficiency while reducing cost, and close confinement is only a big deal until you and the robots dig out and build a new martian hobbit hole.
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Post by ntsheep on Jan 7, 2014 21:46:59 GMT -5
The movie I quoted was Spaced Invaders.
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