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that might be a bit better, but it would be very unstable given some of mars's storms and the terrain. look at the rover pics and you will see MANY rocks all over the place on the planets surface.

i'd say your best bet is to have a very basic plow on the front of a simple vehicle.

or even have rovers go arround and clear paths of rocks before going somewhere out there.

I REALLY like the idea of using bikes on the surface especially since you can go pretty long ranges with the same energy as a it would take here on earth with a short trip all because there is less gravity there.

there are a few things though that i wouldn't agree with using them on the surface though, one would be that you would need a BEEFY bilke to hold both you and all of your equpitment since i'm assuming you would be using the bike not just for a "ride"

more things i would also wory about is the misc rocks all over the surface. riding will be slow since you have to dodge them constantly.

as far as how many crew members, it will hold 2 in a standard situation but can hold as many as 4 in a case of emergency. yes it is pressureized. as far as the method of powering/fuel being used, that is one of the parts of the vehicle that i wont reveal till later because its still being worked on. as far as driving distance it is capable of unlimited distance, and as far as speed figure a top speed of arround 70-80mph.

hummm i like what cindy posted... that article mentioning that there could be multiple in one day.... well if we found a way to harness the power from the storm... we could lay off using specific sources of power like some solar and what not. we could build machines that take in the static that it produces and stores it....

it would be a gold rush, heck, just think of the possibilities.... people would be thinking up of new ways to get to and from space easier, cheaper, faster. research labritories set up on the moon, possibily hospitals for rich cancer patients that want to live out their days in a super clean environment, and so on... there are lots of things to do up there as well as mine the moon....

what do you mean by space elevator though? just a huge satelite in space with long cables reaching down to haul something up into space? I was thinking something more along the lines of just making new technology so that we can bypass the bypassing ways of it all....

I agree for things in space, but we really need something that can easily bring stuff into and out of space with no problems. even if it means distorting gravitational fields...

we could always do weighted clothing... so it feels like your moving arround on earth...

then when you go to do stuff on the moon, like mine or what ever, take it off and you will be like 6x stronger than normal being able to move stuff with alot less gravity pulling it down...

I'm all for going to mars, but honestly i think its impractical to go at the current time, we just dont have the money, technology, and intrest in getting to that point from the rest of the world, or even just the rest of the US as it is...

we need to get a break through with technology to get us there in a record time, or invent something that will want people to be like "oh hey look at that, we can start traveling to other planets in 1/2 the time, i dont mind investing a few bucks to get something like this going."

its something thats outstanding that people will want to put intrest into... no one wants to invest money in something thats the same stuff we have been doing for years, but just in a new place...

we need to get others excited about things. once we do that, then the money comes, and along with money comes more research, and intelegent decision making.

well then that would be even better on the moon, for sleeping and what not.. just put them in the revolving machine to keep pressure on them and kep it like earth. when you need to go out and do work, then turn off the machine and get out, and you will be at 1/6th again... its all a matter of design to take care of things... once a day even would be better...

its like being on a trampoline all day and getting off for a while, and you can feel gravity really kick in...

there are other ways of going about this... i dont know about you but have you seen the drugs that are out lately? like lets take one thats a decently well known drug, like pain killers... well there are various kinds. Viox is one in specific, well that one does a good job at what its supposed to do, BUT it has side affects... like increasing the chance of heart attack... so basicly it renders it no good. im not saying it doesn't get the job done, but still it has side affects...

sadly enough you will go through the same thing with medications.... SO in order to battle bone/muscle loss i would suggest something like electrotheropy (just like on the movie the matrix where he gets his muscles back into shape) or there are other ways too, but that seems to be the safest way...

as far as Bone Loss, the body addapts to its environment, so if you have less pressure on the bone structure then obviously it will loose the need to be so strong in specific areas. but if you apply more pressure then you will gain more than normal bone groth. to battle this, you NEED some sort of artificial gravity machine...

you have to be careful with human bio-chemistry though.... could cause big problems.

I honestly think that we should dig into the ground there at least 200-300 feet deep, and build an infastructure there that revolves on an angle to increase the gravity... all you have to do is set it up on a magnetic rail system which you can import materials to the moon and magnatise it all there....