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I have to say I disagree. Motivation and challenge as a society is very important. Also, many argue the space shuttles were doomed from the start. I'm not talking about the death of the sun. I'm talking about things like supervolcanos and nuclear war, which could happen at any time. light speed time delay

Studies have shown people get used to it after a short while. Its called aerodynamic drag and supersonic retropropulsion, and has been though ally analyzed by both spacex and being for their respective landers.

You can have artificial gravity on Mars using tilted donuts.

Even without ISRU, with enough brute force, or lots of small missions, a return mission is possible.

hmmm... Why's there an extremely arbitrary and vacuous 350 word limit if, there isn't reason for said limit of wordcount, in addition, there's far insufficient length for crucial plot development and especially the all-important character development, and even the dialogue will be hampered, however, as a counterexample, its possible to write a single, absurd, low-quality sentence, such as the one you're currently reading, that fulfills the requirements of the above post by Earthlinger, which is, to refresh your memory, a short story consisting of only a mere 350 words, which actually could be accomplished, but such a story would leave very little room for details and nuances to be fully enunciated, but back on topic, this sentence will prove, nothing, because its not a story and does not address the prompt, since it quite certainly doesn't contain even a mere trace of a plot, though it could be argued, that depending on the intangible definition of plot, that this sentence does really have a plot, due to the fact that it varies from one topic to another, instead of being principally on one topic like a normal sentence, however, such a definition of plot would be odd, but irrelevant, as the purpose of the prompt was to write a story, and not a run-on sentence, which is what this was, though the word "was" should not be used, as this sentence is still ongoing, to prove my point about the continued existence of this sentence, I will return to an earlier topic, by pointing out that its impossible to fully explain a setting in 350 characters, or much of a story, unless its a profound and thought-provoking story that's best told in a compact format, such as mentioned by Earthlinger's prompt, speaking of which, this elaborate, unnecessary, drawn-out sentence, which was inspired by Earthlinger's prompt, cannot fit another meaningful statement into the characters remaining, unless the author becomes better at compact writing, which I suppose is part of the prompt's purpose in the first place, and this sentence has now failed at its goal by slightly exceeding the word limit by 1.

@KerikBalm, I have an idea for an orbit config. What if Mun was at the Rald l4 and Minimus at Rald l5? Would that crash the game?

YEAR ONE, DAY 24: DUNA ARRIVAL The Duna lander is revealed. Undocking is more violent than expected. Erite(geologist), Matt(Medic), and Newfrod(Mechanic) will land. Deorbit Ladders out New Frod will be the third to set foot on Duna(an earlier zubrin-style mission took place, but left immediately after landing). They don't have much in way of transportation. The pegasus crew checks for bad weather. Night geology mission These rocks have colliders. And there's water! Sunset This mission stayed for 1 month. (Sorry ISS. We spent all our funds on Kegasus, so we can't give you snack resupplies). Liftoff! Orbit insertion Meanwhile... A tanker will refuel the ship. Another tanker is in Laythe orbit. Rendevous plotted Kegasus Docking proved impossible, so EVA was needed. Next, the Kegasus will use a technique called the oberth effect. It will do an extremely low slingshot around Kerbol, then head out to Jool. But that iss only the second most dangerous part of the mission...

Chapter 3 coming SoonTm

Actually, it is supported by MDRF 5 Even though complete self sufficiency might be impossible in the near term, if asteroid mining is introduced as well, most of the resource problems are prevented.

In the original suit. The one they are doing is based of another version from a later movie, where most of the thrust comes from the back. Not in the Hacksmith version. The feet are the worst place due to balance.

Yes, go to the nasa website, click Media, then tune in to NASA TV.

Its mostly exploration and mining. It has only one dev, so it will probably be several years till release However, this isn't vapor ware, because it has been around and has been continually updated for years.

6 thrusters on on his back. The hand ones provide stability.

We haven't really tried though. We need to do that(build a mock colony in the desert). A desert would be a better place to test than Antarctica, because Antarctica has that ice sheet blocking access to the metals. There are lava tubes on Mars. Also, you could just pile dirt on the surface habs. Why? Water can be produced from ice and humidity, there is still enough solar power, air can be extracted from the martian air or from water, martian soil, perhaps after removing he perchlorates, can be used to grow food, and there are metals available on the planet and on phobos, and regolith can be used for bricks. The radiation has been accurately measured by the curiosity rover.

Doesn't that help my point?

Those reasons are easily disproven. 1. Biosphere has no bearing on colonization of Mars. Mars has resources, so a colony does not need 100% containment. 2. The radiation levels on Mars are less than on the moon, and much less than interplanetary space. Radiation can be blocked via water or fuel that will be on the craft anyway. 3. No probe so far has used supersonic retropropulsion, which would be used for a human landing. Non SSRP landing failures aren't relevant. 4. Suitlocks. Also, they have proven that perchlorates do not get into the food grown in Martian soil. 5. This is the worst one. We know for certain from ISS experience that 6 months in zero g is survivable. 1/3 gee after zero gee will make for an easier recovery compared to Earth. The idea that astronauts will be unable to walk on Mars to to 6 months in zero gee isn't supported by anything.

Anything can fly with MOAR BOOSTERS! They ran out of funds to build a suit powerful enough to lift. It would, for some unknowable reason, cost 125,000 dollars!!! Even though its physically possible...

Delayed a month again? If th dry fire is in Jan, then the launch won't be until Feb.

So all the components exist, they just need to be put together into one thing.

It does work.

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