Space Colonies?

johngalt said:
The only planet within reach that could even be considered is Mars. Lots of problems though.

Radiation: Mars has no magnetic field to shield the surface. Not just while living there, but on the trip there too.

Gravity: Mars has only about 38% the gravity as Earth. The human body will quickly atrophy.

No atmosphere - who wants to live their entire life under a dome?

Everything will have to be transported there. Think Hawaii living is expensive?

But the warp drive will be invented in 2063, so that is only about 40 years away.
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I came here to post this. Humanity will never live on Mars or any other planet in any meaningful sense. There will never be permanent settlements on Mars and we will never visit another solar system. Yes, I know that people said the same thing to Columbus and Neil Armstrong. Flying to the moon and back is nothing like the hazards your body would be exposed to on Mars.
 
Llance said:
I don't care about the hazards, I still want to go, and go it alone. We all gotta die sometime so why not full fill a dream.
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I can understand that perspective. Personally, I hope to have a heart attack while fly fishing in Alaska and have scavengers scatter my bones (but not for 40+ years and I hope to be fully dead before they eat me). I think I am too claustrophobic for space travel and I hate roller coasters.
 
Speaking of Mars...



In 1974 the cameras caught steam emanating from Otis Sistrunk's bald head. Analyst Alex Karras, seeing the image and knowing that Sistrunk was the only active NFL player who had not played in college, quipped that Sistrunk was from the University of Mars.

That tag stuck with Otis his whole life.

 
BC38 said:
FWIW, I would go into space in a heartbeat if I could.
I've been a HUGE Sci-Fi fan my whole life.
Risk be damned, I'd sign up tomorrow if it were possible.
If I had the scratch to spare, I' do the Space-X or Virgin flights.
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Me too, but there is a problem with them, they don't go out far enough and they come back. I've no intention of coming back if I get out there. :D
 
Llance said:
Me too, but there is a problem with them, they don't go out far enough and they come back. I've no intention of coming back if I get out there. :D
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I agree 100% on the ride being too short. I'd want to come back, I have a wife & kids (hoping to be here long enough for grandkids), but I'd surely prefer a longer ride.
Even with that being said though, if I had the dough to spare I'd take the ride as it is, just because it is the only option, and likely to remain the only option for us civilians in my lifetime.
 
My personal belief is that there will never be any mass colonization of the Moon or any planets, in or beyond our solar system, by humans as they currently exist. If done, it will require some form of robotic colonists, or perhaps heavily genetically modified humans or human-robotic hybrids that can live for centuries and will be resistant to the adverse conditions of space and other celestial bodies.
 
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As screwed up as Homo sapiens is, I doubt it's worth colonizing.
 
DWalt said:
My personal belief is that there will never be any mass colonization of the Moon or any planets, in or beyond our solar system, by humans as they currently exist. If done, it will require some form of robotic colonists, or perhaps heavily genetically modified humans or human-robotic hybrids that can live for centuries and will be resistant to the adverse conditions of space and other celestial bodies.
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