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six billion people on Earth...countless animals...i wonder how much energy could be made from that...?
a few people on mars....probably no animals....lots of energy needed for life support....I don't think this will replace solar cells any time soon 

now wouldn't this be great for protecting Mars from radiation?...

Thats a lot of info to send. We should just download the brain's info, put the body into a life support system, send the info to where-ever the person is going, then download the info into a special cloned body duplicate. then all we need to send to brain info and a strand of DNA. Plus, when you come back, you can have your info put back into your old body.

I know this may sound a bit crazy, but with all the population tranfer to Mars, there is bound to be some waste. So, why bother to recycle? Just leave all the garbage in space and pretty soon, there will be a nice shield. With a lot of fast moving pieces of waste, radiation will have a hard time getting through (and maybe light too) because the trash will aborb or reflect a lot, also micrometoers would likely hit the trash and thus the trash will keep the colony safe.

Aha!! I knew it! ...and the government keeps the stargate a secret from me also.

Couldn't we just make energy from the dimensional gaps without using the black hole? Seems like a waste.

What about transporting the food to colonies? It would still cost a lot from transportation. Wouldn't it just be more efficient to build it right next to the colony on Mars?

interesting, but it will be expensive and lost robots will have to be replaced from a storage supply. It seems a waste to use these against "weak" weapons. I still think some sort of re-forming shield would be best for most cases. nano-bots to protect against extreme dangers.

I had an interesting idea while looking at fiber optics, let me know what you think. These fibers bend light via changing mediums. The change is so extreme that the light completely bends and thus stays in the thin fiber (or something like this) So, what if we find two liquid, solids, or even gases that do this to surround our ship. All light weapons would be worthless.

I have been looking into various forms of diving gear such as rebreathers. The amount of nitrogen needed to cover the planet would be enormous but maybe we could supply each person with their own "little air bubble" of nitrogen. Each time they breath out, the carbon dioxide will be filtered out and pure oxygen will be filtered in from the surrounding environment or a small tank maybe. Thus people could walk on the surface of Mars with a snorkel or mouthpiece type object? without a spacesuit (assuming an atmosphere of some sort is made with suitable pressure).

I wonder if nano-machines could help in growing fungus. I keep thinking of how certain species of ants raise fungus in their nests. Maybe our robot could do the same thing, that is supplying little sprays of nutrients to parts of the fungus.

Monocultural disease? Thus the use of automated systems with no human or outside contact and the use of many isolated growing vats. Also, all inventions at some point were experimental. If research is started now, by the time colonies form, it could be relatively safe and perfected.

Reading books, sleeping, eating, repairing stuff. How much time does a person even spend frolicking in nature? Even if we spend millions of dollars on a high-tech greenhouse for our colonists to run about in, we can never simulate the real thing unless it is "simulated" (electronics, 3-d graphics, etc.).

Admit it, more and more people are already losing touch with nature. For those people who just can't bare leaving the homely feeling of nature, they could just stay on Earth. I'm sure we could get many people willing to go especially if we offered material goods.

Is soy ice cream made from soy milk? Just wondering.

If you keep the poles spinning around your ship really really fast, then any weapons would be caught in orbit. Then when you suddenly switch them off, the weapons will go flying off away from your ship.

What about lasers? magetic fields won't work on them. A whole frequency of light can be used.

What about plastic bullets? They will go right through the magnetic shield.

Why not just cover your hull with a very very thick syrup solution. Believe me, it is really hard to move things through syrup. A missle or something would have trouble too. Also, the best part is, your shields will reform over the weapon because it is liquidish.