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#1 Re: Terraformation » Solar wind! - Mars is not protected like earth. » 2014-08-19 01:44:30
I have no idea... thats why I am asking the people with time on their hands to do the math 
You could glue Ceres, and some other things together.
It just seems easier than most of the other ideas for terrraforming.
#2 Re: Terraformation » Solar wind! - Mars is not protected like earth. » 2014-08-17 20:44:13
This is a question that has been bugging me...
Does the moon contribute to the heating of the Earth core through gravitational tides?
If so, could an artificial moon at Mars melt the core and produce a magnetic field?
#3 Re: Not So Free Chat » Myers-Briggs Type Indicator » 2014-07-20 21:56:35
INTJ here. 
#4 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » I hope they keep the lid very well sealed :-) » 2014-07-03 18:05:38
Maybe they are scared of the result?
What if 0.8 G turns out to be just as bad as 0 G?
Better not to know. Science is dumb. And scary.
#5 Re: Martian Chronicles » NASA’s new ‘IXS Enterprise’ is a spaceship worthy of James T. Kirk » 2014-07-02 22:04:00
Now that is how you paper rocket.
#6 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » What is opposite of Mars? » 2014-07-02 22:00:19
36 Day orbital period?
That's really going for it.
#7 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Ion Electrospray Propulsion System for CubeSats » 2014-07-02 21:54:50
I thought I was funny. There isn't enough funny on this board.
#8 Re: Not So Free Chat » Ukraine & Crimea » 2014-06-29 23:30:34
Terraformer wrote:Tom Kalbfus wrote:Saying you're right doesn't make you right.
Exactly, Tom, exactly.
I believe in doing what's right regardless of the consequences, I don't think survival is everything, because eventually all of us don't survive, we'll all die of something. To go back to the example of the Civil War 750,000 Americans died in it, if there was no Civil War, they would all still be dead today!
Now there is a justification for a lot of things you probably don't mean to justify.
#9 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Ion Electrospray Propulsion System for CubeSats » 2014-06-29 23:21:48
Ionized salt is different to iodized salt right?
#10 Re: Human missions » Light weight nuclear reactor, updating Mars Direct » 2014-06-29 23:18:28
It's always easy to argue for why spending more money will make something better. In fact, it's about as close as you can get to a fact of life, especially in engineering.
I would completely disagree with that.
Limitless resources lead to lazy engineering.
Figuring out how to do more with less is how we got Mars Direct in the first place, easily a much better return on resources than the 90-day plan model.
#11 Re: Human missions » Another NASA fail... » 2014-06-29 22:38:44
If you can throw more mass then the lander gets cheaper and safer.
Big dumb launchers at the Earth end make things a lot simpler at the Mars end.
#12 Re: Terraformation » Dyson Parabola » 2014-06-17 19:29:26
For a SETI type exercise it could be used as a giant signalling beacon... you would want a set of sails on the other side set up as a Fresnel. You could blink like a lighthouse in a number of interesting directions.
#13 Re: Human missions » A Return to the Moon by the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary. » 2014-06-16 20:25:27
This thread might equally be re-titled A return to manned spaceflight for Apollo's 50th anniversary.
Gives Space X or whoever just over 5 years to get it together.
Sure as heck Nasa couldn't put a man in space in under 5 years.
#14 Re: Mars Society International » SpaceUp - your space unconference » 2014-06-16 19:53:31
We just had one of these in New Zealand. It went really really well.
Highly recommended.
#15 Re: Space Policy » Newt Gingrich » 2014-06-16 19:51:20
Or read "A Brave New World" perhaps?
#16 Re: Human missions » The Tsiolkovsky Compendium reborn: crowdsourcing a mission to Mars » 2013-06-18 13:59:03
idiom wrote:b) How do you plan to make sure that everyone who has access to the project is a U.S. citizen (or not a U.S. Citizen if this is a non-US project)?
Why would that be necessary? If you're talking about ITAR compliance, that's way, way overkill. What's the issue?
Earlier...
we are seeking to construct a bill of materials and set of blueprints ready to be machined,
I imagine this might be subject to export restrictions. Especially if it included software.
#17 Re: Human missions » The Tsiolkovsky Compendium reborn: crowdsourcing a mission to Mars » 2013-06-18 00:04:37
a) Have you had a chat with Mars One about working with them?
b) How do you plan to make sure that everyone who has access to the project is a U.S. citizen (or not a U.S. Citizen if this is a non-US project)?
c) Would this be governed by the Mars Society or similar if Mars One is keeping everything internal?
#18 Re: Terraformation » Terraforming the Jovian moons... » 2013-06-15 14:23:18
Why would you want more than 1 bar of atmosphere?
#19 Re: Terraformation » Mushrooms as a terraforming aid » 2013-06-13 01:47:02
Possibly the opposite. Fungi are important symbiotes for nearly all plants. Most plants have a specific fungal symbiote that matches them.
The more interesting starting point for terraforming would be lichen with cyanobacteria. The lichen basically farm cyanobacteria for oxygen.
Linkums. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3 … 2102128213
#20 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Space Radiation + counter measures » 2013-06-08 21:32:07
Quick question, its probably addressed somewhere and I missed it.
How so surface radiation affect greenhouses? What plants can tolerate radiation that high? Will we need to take breeds that have been cross bred with wild samples from Chernobyl and the like?
#21 Re: Civilization and Culture » What if NASA had to earn money BACK.. » 2013-06-06 20:02:41
I don't know if the U.S. has State Owned Enterprises. They work well enough elsewhere.
#22 Re: Space Policy » The SLS: too expensive for exploration? » 2013-06-06 10:49:22
If SLS gets under $10k/lb it would be doing pretty well...
On the upside, after we build we would have to use it... because we built it and we wouldn't build something to stupid to use right?
#23 Re: Mars Gravity Biosatellite » Where does this stand now? » 2013-06-06 10:22:06
This seems stuck, even though it is one of the biggest question marks hanging over space colonization.
Perhaps it could be a good crowd funding target?
#24 Other space advocacy organizations » KiwiSpace » 2013-06-06 09:57:20
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So, one of the things I have been doing with my time:
If you are in New Zealand, get involved
We are pretty non-government actually. About as alt-space as you get.
#25 Re: Meta New Mars » Increasing use » 2013-06-06 06:13:59
Well... Funding is still an issue. I have an N-Prize entry however. The work on the concept did yield a novel rocket engine design however. I had a lot of projects on, but I have more time now for these things.