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Geek Culture / WIN A FAMILY TRIP TO MARS!!! (Just one small problem, or is it a big one?...)

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 22:57
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Fancy going to Mars! It's brilliant! You can work, rest, and play every day!!! Take the family! Have fun... and do your own décor...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23230-mars-trip-to-use-astronaut-poo-as-radiation-shield.html

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rolfy
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Stick me in one of those things and fire me into space it wouldn't be long till the walls were covered anyhow.

I don't trip over...I do random gravity checks.
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Neuro Fuzzy
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Quote: ""If you get back and you have cancer, we can deal with that on Earth," Clark said. "Our focus is minimising the effects of acute radiation on crew performance.""


Heheh. (From the article in the first link in the one linked here)

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Fluffy Rabbit
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Just a flyby, huh? Apollo 8 was the first deep space mission, and those guys were able to orbit the moon and still have enough fuel to make the return trip. This mission sort of feels like it's cutting corners, being that it'll be keeping the same trajectory the whole mission.

What will it take for a mission where astronauts can take off from Earth, land on Mars, walk around, and blast back to Earth?
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CoffeeGrunt
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Quote: "What will it take for a mission where astronauts can take off from Earth, land on Mars, walk around, and blast back to Earth?"


An incredible amount of engineering and expense that can't be justified to bean counters.

Cos y'know, it'd be better for us to feed people than to take a stroll on Mars for a few tens of billions of dollars.
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Indicium
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I think things like landing on Mars would fix our problems. Am I wrong in saying a lot of our technology came as a direct result of wanting to explore space?


They see me coding, they hating. http://indi-indicium.blogspot.co.uk/
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Fluffy Rabbit
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Please, no politics. Expenses are something to be settled by other people in other times.

I'm just talking about technology. Is a Mars lander that can take off from Mars (break its gravity) like was done with the lunar lander possible with current technology?
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SpyDaniel
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Most tech comes from fighting wars, most of the time anyway. What if an alien race had fought wars for 2000 years straight, think of all the technology they would have created. Now think of our tin can of a space craft floating towards Mars, when all of a sudden, a huge battleship abducts it as it floats by Mars xD
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CoffeeGrunt
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I think that's a misunderstanding. War's cooperation not its competition improves technology.

It's because scientists don't worry about monetary gain or academic feuds, it's all about clubbing together to get better stuff out there.

Then each side mimics and improves on the others' designs, accelerating the process.
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Indicium
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

My point here. LED is a big one.


They see me coding, they hating. http://indi-indicium.blogspot.co.uk/
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