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    Why? You can easily carry enough food for a 2.5 year mission, and as Zubrin constantly points out, the radiation isn't that much. MIT scientists have made a far lighter solar panel. If that was used, or beamed power, that mass would leave. Also, chemical rockets work fine! https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/376589main_04 - Mars Direct Power Point-7-30-09.pdf
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    Heres the futuralised one:
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    Back to Bases

    DAL59 replied to Chads's topic in KSP1 Discussion

    Try assembling in orbit and then landing.
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    ! That is larger than the observable universe cubed!
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    How to we get that data? By sending humans to Mars!
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    All of the images are broken. I recommend you never use photobucket. It is really buggy..
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    He's suggested he will.
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    Whats wrong with Musk's plan? Or Zubrins?
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    Well, the majority of the thread has been about that, and it is relevant to the economics and politics of it, so I think its a bit late. Even with chemical propulsion, a manned mission to Titan might be feasible in the mid century. Easy ISRU, and aerobraking ability. It would take a couple decades though, which is not good. Topor would really help. With gas core nuclear or pulsed plasmoids, transit times could be reduced to 2 years or less. I actually cooperated with @GLaDOS42 on a design for a station that would go to Saturn for a NASA challenge. It involved several hundred bigelow olympus modules in a ring connecting to a central shaft of 6 olympus modules, with the docking complex in front of the center and a fuel tank behind. Quite expensive. https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Contest/
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    I know. I was talking mostly about the drones, but I couldn't find a good picture.
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    Isaic Arthur just made a great video about colonizing Titan. Not inhabiting the planet itself, but using its cooling ability for computing and industry.
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    What about hydroponics? A robotic hydroponic farm isn't very far off with our current technology. There is still plenty of ice in the soil and in glaciers. Not nearly as much as on Earth, true, but still plenty for open cycle water. Actually, in ksp, its good practice to send a probe with a resource scanner... And why not carry a couple hundred drones on a cargo ITS and have them swarm around looking for resources? (like in Nat Geo s Mars series) Note: The Nat Geo Mars Spacecraft looks nothing like the ITS...
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    However, there still could be life deeper underground. It won't be cold inside the habitat!
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    The first one. The entire ship has to go from the surface of kerbin to the surface of tylo, without refueling, and then go back to the surface of kerbin.
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    Exactly. You have to wash the soil first though.
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    That's fine. But remember, there are diminishing returns the larger you make the craft.
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    That is the point. Its the hardest challenge. It is. But it uses mining after landing, so it doesn't count.
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    @A 450!
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    This is arguably the hardest task in ksp. Feel free to cooperate and discuss ideas, as doing this alone would make this even harder. Nobody, as far as I know, has managed to send an SSTO to Tylo. @Matt Lowne and Bradley Winstance have both done SSTOs, but the former used a detachable lander, and the latter refueled on Tylo. No mods other than informational or visual mods, or Take Command. Note: I have no idea if this is possible. With no gravity assists and no aerobraking at Jool, 11040 delta vee is needed from LKO. With ion engines, this might be possible! Of course, you can't land on tylo with ion engines...
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    charabia charabia et plus charabia.
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    VASIMR's disadvantages quite literally outweighs its advantages, as the weight of the reactor is so much.
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    How would they enrich that uranium though? 25% of the US's electricity was once devoted to enrichment.
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    Even normal topor, the kind NASA is studying, would mean you only would need several hundred calories of nutrient injection a day, which wouldn't actually take up that much room. http://spaceworkseng.com/torpor-faq/
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    So close to being right, @JK_Kerbineer @Capt'n Skunky
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