NASA's permanent Mars colony plan

[Soda Popinski]

Wow. I'm surprised an Earth independent colony was even being considered. Largely academic I suppose. I still need to finish reading it, but not a bunch of cool rockets like in the Mars Design Reference Architecture

NASA's Journey to Mars

[fredinno]

Wow. I'm surprised an Earth independent colony was even being considered. Largely academic I suppose. I still need to finish reading it, but not a bunch of cool rockets like in the Mars Design Reference Architecture

NASA's Journey to Mars

Oh, look, another powerpoint plan. Nothing to see here, folks.

[Bill Phil]

That's mostly a design reference for a Mars Mission. Once they get around to actually doing it, they'll have ideas already on the table.

[fredinno]

That's mostly a design reference for a Mars Mission. Once they get around to actually doing it, they'll have ideas already on the table.

I know, I'm just saying it will probably not happen.

[Pixel of Life]

I know, I'm just saying it will probably not happen.

Technology tends to advance exponentially. After the first steam locomotives were built around the year 1800, it only took a hundred years before the Wright brothers achieved flight. 50 years later, Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth. 30 years after that, TCP/IP became the standard protocol for computer networking (A very significant event so one could say that's when the internet as we know it was born).

15 years is a long time. Anything can happen.

[FishInferno]

They just keep growing the same exact presentation at us over and over again. We can't get to Mars on a jobs program.

www.SpaceX.com

[Bill Phil]

I know, I'm just saying it will probably not happen.

I'm saying it's not colonization if it's design reference.

[sojourner]

Technology tends to advance exponentially. After the first steam locomotives were built around the year 1800, it only took a hundred years before the Wright brothers achieved flight. 50 years later, Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth. 30 years after that, TCP/IP became the standard protocol for computer networking (A very significant event so one could say that's when the internet as we know it was born).

15 years is a long time. Anything can happen.

In 15 years we'll have much faster computers and slightly better rockets. Mars will still cost a fortune.

[fredinno]

In 15 years we'll have much faster computers and slightly better rockets. Mars will still cost a fortune.

Better idea to colonize underground, ocran and LEO, (and Antarctic, post 2041) and have further expansion into the Arctic, including places like Greenland and the Canadian and Russian Arctic Islands.

Moon, maybe within the next 50-100 years.

[ChrisSpace]

Once the Antarctic Treaty is revised we can officially say it is easier to colonise Antarctica than Mars. Just sayin'.

[fredinno]

Once the Antarctic Treaty is revised we can officially say it is easier to colonise Antarctica than Mars. Just sayin'.

Just wait till it expires... We have plenty of Ocean, Tundra, and Ice Cap to cover, in the meantime.

[J.Random]

NASA's riding the wave (I'm not saying it's a bad thing).