DAL59
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sabatier reaction. And there is plenty of ice. And they can carry enough food for 2 years. http://stargate.inf.elte.hu/~seci/fun/Kurzweil, Ray - Singularity Is Near, The (hardback ed) [v1.3].pdf
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SpaceX will divert all of its employees to work on it. They already have moved many employees to just ITS work. He is serious about this.
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Based on xkcd's What If(apparently inactive). Ask a absurd hypothetical question, and someone can come and give you a serious scientific answer. -
This is true. I expect most space colonists to live in oneill cylinders, however, I think there will be at least some cities on Mars. Due to expanded scientific outpost, consistent launch windows, and you don't have to redirect asteroids.
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Risk- Musk himself has admitted that it is very high. However, there will be precursor landings, and again, nobody i being forced onto the ship. True, for passengers...but for the military, they would really, really want a reusable, high payload rocket that can get anywhere in an hour with little danger of being attacked. Rewards- science, extreme reputation, national pride, off world habitat, global recognition
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The ITS is sustainable. Plenty of money from satellites and point to point transport.
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It does for Mars.
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Orbital refueling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee#Challenge_and_response
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Yes, since it refuels and aerobrakes. Set it to one way flyby. It also stays on Mars for 500 days. Add another km/s to the delta vee though, for supersonic retropropulsion. Same reason for the moon- weeks of darkness on end, so no growing plants. Mars has soil.
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You are not using it correctly. You are calculating for a round trip rendezvous, that does not include landing. Not only will the ITS use aerobraking, but it will refuel at Mars.
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Nobody is forcing anybody onto a ship. Many people would be willing to take the risk. The boat transport industry didn't disappear after the Titanic.
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You do not need a self sufficient closed loop habitat for a Mars colony, since there is a planets worth of materials to use, plus plenty of ice. That site is so useful.
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Otherwise known as BFR.
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spacex.com/mars its in the video also Musk's reddit AMA
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4 months. And it isn't hard to tether two ships together and spin them. Not really. He has made space costs 10 times cheaper, and is also trying to do the same with solar panels. An ITS doesn't need a construction facility. It refuels in orbit, which is kind of a depot. Very different from a Mars colony. On Mars, you have soil and mining materials and plenty of water to work with(100% humidity and underground glaciers). What exactly does this have to do for Mars? The sabatier reaction is old and well understood.
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You forgot to put a question! I'll the assume the question is should it be ksp temed? Yes. You land on the old island. Do you call the recovery team or EVA and explore?
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You can copy paste the part file and use the @rescale command.
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Less than LEO in Venus atmosphere. Half the sky is blocked out, plus the air blocks out more radiation. If you are talking about solar storms and not GCRs, there is plenty of solar power for a magnetic shield. This is now a hot topic!
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OCD Alert: I want to get around the contracts system!
DAL59 replied to Gunnn's topic in KSP1 Discussion
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For what purpose? In return for additional radiation exposure (no mag field) they get to live in a can a long way from home with nothing to see out the window of much interest. The same can could be spun to 1g in Earth orbit, an Less radiation than Mars, actually. Plenty of solar power and fertilizer in air for agriculture.
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In the upper atmosphere. The pressure, tempurature, and gravity are earthlike. I know. However, I think the mars society is right that any competant space organization with 19 billion dollars(not controlled by the government) could go to Mars. Spacex curently has 15 billion dollars, plus Musk has 19 billion of his own money to spend.
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Venus Airships Not really. The ITS takes a maximum of 4 months to get to Mars. Especially considering that Mars only has 40% gravity, they'll be fine. this didn't have a link attached NASA has more than enough money to do a 10 year Mars program. marssociety.org SpaceX could easily do this for 100 million by launching two BEAMs tethered together. NASA is known for being very money inefficient. The JWST cost 18 times more than expected. I'm sure there are plenty of rich people who would go to Mars just for the adventure.
