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I think that once people go to mars they'll need to know where the earthquake "or Marsquake" will most likely happen. I think that seismographs should be used on mars and I think that the same kind of laser technology used to try to detect gravity waves could be beamed at mars from orbit and a marsquake would disrupt the laser beam. Of course a low frequency laser beam should be used unless you would want to destroy rocks on mars. Please reply. I only got one or two replies from the science and technology message boards. I would like to know what you think of this.
I've heard that people are trying to measure gravitational waves using laser interferometers. I think that they get a lot of interference from the earth's gravity and planes that fly over them and other stuff too.
Are there ways to measure seismic activity using a laser interferometer from orbit over mars?
Could a solar sail be used to transport humans to mars and the moon?
I think that it's a good idea to send a probe to mars which could measure the seismology of mars. I wonder if some special sensor could be made for such a probe that could have software that would analyze the data and send it back to earth for future analyses by humans.
Shaun. Do you think that in the past, when there might have been liquid water on mars, that there was a lot of plate tectonic activity and caused the continents on mars "If there are or were any" to move away from each other? Do you know where these continents might be on mars and if they moved away from each other in the past, are they still doing so now?
Does anyone know whether or not mars has plate tectonic activity or whether or not mars had it in the past?
Is Bush's initiative just to get more votes?
There are probably many people out there who claim that human mars exploration is a waste of money but I know that eventually some nation on this planet will be interested enough to support it. I heard rumors that China wants to probably put someobdy on the moon and I know that Russia is very interested in human mars exploration.
Does anyone think that nanotechnology will be used on Mars? If not, will optical computing be thought of as superior to nanotechnology and do you think that that will be used? I think that there might be a kind of competition between those who favor nanotechnology vs those who favor optical computing. Was does anyone think about this?
Why would the colonists want to build monuments on mars?
Constitutional Amendment
Archaeologists have studied the sudden collapse of Maya civilization. Clifford Brown and Walter Witschey have asserted that the Maya civilization had become a ?self-organised critical system? (Destined for Destruction, by Kate Ravilious, in New Scientist magazine, January 10-16, 2004). ?The main characteristic of self-organised critical systems is an instability that rises progressively until, on occasion, the system suddenly ?resets? itself to a more stable configuration.? In the case of a sociocultural system, this ?resetting? is accompanied by warfare, plague, famine, or other process that reduces the ratio of people to resources.
Being personally involved in the collapse of a civilization is usually an unpleasant experience. When we contemplate the construction of a new civilization on Mars, we can ask whether the people to resources ratio should be maintained the old fashioned way (i.e., by warfare, plague, or famine) or whether there is a humanitarian way to keep that ratio at a stable and sustainable level.
I believe that Martians should manage their people to resources ratio in a humanitarian way. They should study the dynamics of self-organized critical systems and that study should focus on the collapse of sociocultural systems and what can be done to prevent such disasters.
My essay on "The Problem of Owning Mars" contains a draft Martian constitution ( [http://www.geocities.com/scott956282743/owningmars.htm]http://www.geocities.com/scott956282743/owningmars.htm ). I have added an ?Amendment I" to that draft. That Amendment reads as follows:
?Amendment 1. Each application for a Settlement Charter shall include a Sociocultural Development Plan. The plan shall contain an ethnographic description of the settlement that the applicants plan to establish. After the issuance of a Settlement Charter, the people who hold the charter shall annually review their Sociocultural Development Plan. During that review, they may amend the plan and, if they amend the plan, they shall deliver a copy of the amended plan to the Terrestrial Embassy of the Provisional Government of Mars.
?When the people who hold a Settlement Charter establish a Martian settlement, their Sociocultural Development Plan shall automatically become a part of the ordinances of the settlement. The members of the settlement shall annually review their settlement's Sociocultural Development Plan. During that review, the plan may be amended and, if the plan is amended, a copy of the amended plan shall be transmitted to the Terrestrial Embassy of the Provisional Government of Mars.?
B. F. Skinner wrote, ?The task of a cultural designer is to accelerate the development of practices which bring the remote consequences of behavior into play? (Beyond Freedom and Dignity, page 143). The foregoing Amendment brings the remote consequences of behavior into play by requiring people examine the long-term implications of how their society is developing. I hope that such examinations will help people to avoid the agonies of having their societies periodically ?reset? the old fashioned way.
What about the inclusion of chaos theory in there. There are many things that are unpredictable such as "human behavior" and "the environment". The weather is not very predictable and neither is dice. Also I don't want any Eugenics programs to be set up in this amendment. I want the martian colonists to avoid having steralization programs like the Nazis did.
I agree on one part. I think that the DOD does waste money. I know that the federal government has been spending more money there than on social and economic and education programs. I know this from a pie chart that I saw in the National Consitution Center. It's one of their interactive exhibits.
Take a look at this weblink. I think that these people are anti-science and would not want anything that's related to science to be funded by the governmeny [http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pag … e_01132004]http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pag … e_01132004
I'm sure that somewhere there's a democrat that supports space exploration. Not all democrats are alike. Not all of them believe in the same things.
I have an idea about space tourism. If 500 people each with 5000 dollars go up into space. That would give the space tourism people a lot of money. 500 time 5000=2500000 dollars. That would give them a whole lot of profit and it would give them money that they could contribute towards the space program where they do space tourism.
Hazer, do you have any proof that it's the Russians that have intentions to send only the rich people up into space? I didn't hear anything about whether or not the Russians were sending people up into space for money. All I knew was that space tourism industries were going to send people into space for a whole lot of money. That's what got me "annoyed".
I think that the Republicans are behind just letting the rich go into space while not allowing people who have enough merit to go into space when they have had a passion for space exploration all of their life.
In ancient Greece at the times of Plato and Aristotle, people said that only the rich people had the leisure to do science and that was a big mistake in the past. After that happened, almost no one did science in Athens. Athens became a city whose citizens were slaves. I don't want the same mistake to happen again.
I don't think that space exploration will be much of an interest to the public if space agencies keep allowing only the rich to go up into space. I think that this is part of the reason why a lto of people aren't interested in space exploration.
I think that space exploration should be for all of humanity. Not just for the filthy rich. Governments shouldn't hold back citizens who have enough merit from getting a chance to enter space.
I don't like this idea of stratification. Look what happened to France in the late 18'th century.
I agree that the space tourism industry is greedy. I hope that in the future they can become less greedy. Once they see our planet from space maybe they will make less greedy decisions. "I hope.".
RxKe when you said that it's only the rich that rule, it's not that way in the United States. Here, ordinary citizens get a say in government and we can vote for our leaders. Would you prefer that the US go back to a feudal system?
What would happen if only the rich people got to Mars? Then there would be a ruling rich elite on Mars and then what would happen if the people who come there next when and if the prices go down don't want to be ruled by these elite people? Then we would have conflicts on Mars where the people would want a democracy instead of something like a monarchy.