Colonization: Is It Possible?

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Moonbase Alpha

[blaman]

NASA can go suck a richard.
We won't get anywhere until the space industry gets a healthy injection of capitalism. Then you can expect to see twice the progress NASA has made since their creation, in half the time.
Luckily for us that's happening right now.

[james4115]

Pretty soon it won't be possible to get 100 miles out of our atmosphere without passing an advertisement for Apple or McDonald's....

Since, you know, when you think space, you think burgers!

WALL-E becomes truth

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[fred da kiko]

NASA can go suck a richard.
We won't get anywhere until the space industry gets a healthy injection of capitalism. Then you can expect to see twice the progress NASA has made since their creation, in half the time.
Luckily for us that's happening right now.

the private sector shouldn't be controlling things like space travel until everything is tested and perfected. you saw what private owners did to jails, imagine the monopoly they would have on space technology.

[Jacob 123456789]

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[blaman]

the private sector shouldn't be controlling things like space travel until everything is tested and perfected. you saw what private owners did to jails, imagine the monopoly they would have on space technology.

Well it's already happening.
And what you just said is flawed.

[Jacob/Lee]

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But seriously, colonization is dangerous at our current level of technology, and it probably will be for a long time. Put a hole in the colony/station/whatever and you'll kill everyone unless there is some sort of airlock system or people walk around in spacesuits.

[Fredulus]

the private sector shouldn't be controlling things like space travel until everything is tested and perfected. you saw what private owners did to jails, imagine the monopoly they would have on space technology.

you dumb. NASA was the one with a monopoly. making it available to the private sector has ended NASA's monopoly, and now a bit of healthy competition is there to speed things up. we havent had that since the cold war.

[Saber15]

build project orion nuclear impulse space craft (spaceships powered by nuclear explosions) - something we could have done with 1960s technology

drill holes into crust of mars using stuffton of nuclear bombs, so heat is pumped to the surface
place orbital mirrors around mars orbit to gather more sunlight, reflect it down to the surface
splice together lichens to break up rocks
place colonists in underground shelters as a basic atmosphere develops
split argon from the rocks; mars lacks a neutral element like the nitrogen in earths atmosphere
use automated shuttles to bring nitrogen from titan to mars, for soil
use automated shuttles to punt metal rich asteroids into orbit around mars, mine asteroids
use an asteroid as a link for a space elevator

[fred da kiko]

you dumb. NASA was the one with a monopoly. making it available to the private sector has ended NASA's monopoly, and now a bit of healthy competition is there to speed things up. we havent had that since the cold war.

it wasn't a monopoly, it was a research & testing organization. the fact that private satellites were launched is the equivalent of us playing the beta of minecraft.

[Jacob/Lee]

Throwing around nuclear bombs like that will throw up stuffloads of dust and reflect heat away from the surface of Mars.

[Fredulus]

it wasn't a monopoly, it was a research & testing organization. the fact that private satellites were launched is the equivalent of us playing the beta of minecraft.

a research and testing organization that had a monopoly on what it was researching and testing. if we wait until the technology is "perfect" before we use it we'll never get anywhere. derp.

[Kochieboy]

Throwing around nuclear bombs like that will throw up stuffloads of dust and reflect heat away from the surface of Mars.

This

[Jacob/Lee]

The same thing would happen if one of those asteroids was punted at a slightly wrong angle or too hard and it crashed onto the surface of Mars.