Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]

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  • I guess it doesn’t necessarily need to be humanoid. Or feet. We can develop these here and work out the kinks before Mars. Something to move around quicker than a caterpillar and can actually dig into the ground beyond a few inches, climb - do hills, build structures for humans before arrival.

    VR helps in real time looking around. We use this type of tech in flying drones to get a more immersive control. Real time video. Real time actions instead of having to plan everything out and wait a month for 10 ft of movement. The current rovers we have were concieved in the 70s and they tend to reinvent the wheel with every iterarion. Expensive? More features will cost some money up front, but you don’t need to build custom suits which are prone to ripping and tearig with a human inside and losing s crew member. So there is cost and risk savings there.

    The space station can be shielded from radiation. They will have less radiation than orbiting earth. Ion engines for logistics trains will cut times for resources to ship to the Mars stations. The logistics trains don’t need to interact with the atmospheres or lanching from ground. They can be recharged and refueld in space.

    We don’t need to be limited to slingshots. Only having to send up to low Mars / Earth orbit for samples will reduce mission costs.

    What is the benifet to humans here I suppose goes with the cost line. AI that isn’t used for genocide? More efficent costs of energy usage here at home? Standardized energy logistics to extend the life of other missions instesd of abandoning them? The ability to remotely upgrade and repair satelites. The ability to develop ion engines with reliable solar power outside the range of the sun for scalability. Improve the efficency and scalability of battery tech here on earth and eventually mining and tansporting the resources in space. By processing resources in space we don’t need to ruin our planet in getting them.

    Eventually taking the next step to become a Type 1 civilization and ending scarcity. picard-excited which I think is a far more noble goal and investment than blowing each other up.



  • You don’t necessarily need to terraform Mars.

    Everyone is thinking Humans, land first, then live on there. I think we are putting the cart before the horse on this. Now getting a human there on the ground and back - doable. Just not the most practicable. Maybe somewhat suatainable but risky.

    We have robotics, VR, cell and wireless tech. We can fairly easily build a space station around Mars. Set up a VR lab in the station and Avatar robots down there. I really am suprised we are not pioneering this tech with our current space station. Wouldn’t it be cool to walk up to an Avatar bot controlled by someone on the ISS? That would be a great moment. Robots cheaper than humans and the systems required to keep them alive. They can also build.

    That way if the robot breaks down you just send another to replace / fix. No need to worry about human suits, tears, squishy living things. They’re all safe up in the station. The amount of work that can be done would be exponential. You wouldn’t need to worry so much about time delays or planning careful routes. So much more ground could be covered in much higher detail because you don’t need to worry so much about bandwith and power tranmission requirements, youxre just beaming to the local satellites which will beam it to the nearby station which will have far greater capabilities.

    We can set up a logistics of power and refuling trains to go back and forth. Ion engines, batteries powered by the sun. Ect. You’d just need to get things into low Earth orbit and then hook up with your thrust module to get to Mars. You don’t need massive gargantuan Saturn V Starship rockets for everything.

    We can absolutely do this. We can do it with the Moon too to really test it out.

    Oxygen? Rocks. Iron OXIDE. Titanium diOXIDE. If you really want people. That’s a do-able thing I think. It just needs to be researched. We don’t have a need here because Oxygen is plentiful here. But I think this will be key to just make our own water rather than trying to find some underground hidden glacier in the shadow of a crater in the poles to sustain human life. Hydrogen is plentiful too. Make our own water, litterly squeezing water from a stone.

    Lack of magnetic field, dynamo is what allowed Mars’ atmosphere to just leech off into space. My theory is a big asteroid punched it and created Olympus Mons where the core was ejected out / knocked out of comission. Reguardless we can’t fix that right now. Any atmosphere for humans is going to have to be contained within either a suit or a vessel.

    We can store energy from the sun and ship it wherever it needs to go, and even have a logistics train to do this and refill them. Have a standardized battery pack adapter that can be swapped out. Use this to also build out a high bandwith communications relay network for the solar system and beyond. We can then set out satelites and telescopes in deep space without having to consider as large or power hungry communications on them since we will have relay networks to carry the signal.

    This will be the step we need to take advantage of the resources out there and expand humanity to get off this rock and maybe just maybe find some ETs.
























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