Gurn Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 14 minutes ago, Sharpshooter said: I'm excited to see this rover possibly finding signs of life(which is a main mission) and how it's able to produce breathable oxygen and liquid O2 fuel, for future manned missions. If it's successful, I see a full on manned mission getting a green-light. iirc Space Ex has an idea to send an unmanned craft up to Mars, have it sit there for a couple of months while it creates enough fuel to return. Then send people up in another ship. When it is time to come home they move to the first ship and come home. Meanwhile the second ship begins to refuel itself, waiting for another crew to come up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Just now, gurn said: iirc Space Ex has an idea to send an unmanned craft up to Mars, have it sit there for a couple of months while it creates enough fuel to return. Then send people up in another ship. When it is time to come home they move to the first ship and come home. Meanwhile the second ship begins to refuel itself, waiting for another crew to come up. I think you're right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 47 minutes ago, gurn said: iirc Space Ex has an idea to send an unmanned craft up to Mars, have it sit there for a couple of months while it creates enough fuel to return. Then send people up in another ship. When it is time to come home they move to the first ship and come home. Meanwhile the second ship begins to refuel itself, waiting for another crew to come up. Hopefully they don't send Matt Damon..... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckylager Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 55 minutes ago, Sharpshooter said: Perseverance's helicopter Ingenuity will take its first flight. This will be the first controlled flight on another planet, in order to collect data in order to engineer the flight of larger helicopters in the future. It'll also take colour pictures of the surface of Mars. This is really cool. "Ohh what's that!?" - "sand" "Oh oh, over there, 3 o'clock whats that!?" -"a rock" "Hey look ov.." -"more rocks" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 11 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said: Hopefully they don't send Matt Damon..... I was impressed with how much they got right about that movie, Damon aside. It was one of the better Mars movies that I can totally recall. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, luckylager said: "Ohh what's that!?" - "sand" "Oh oh, over there, 3 o'clock whats that!?" -"a rock" "Hey look ov.." -"more rocks" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 minute ago, Sharpshooter said: I was impressed with how much they got right about that movie, Damon aside. It was one of the better Mars movies that I can totally recall. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lock Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 hour ago, BoKnows said: When we start terraforming and living on Mars we're unleash an ancient space disease. Killing us all. Zombies from Mars or bust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 13 minutes ago, The Lock said: Zombies from Mars or bust Pretty sure that was one of David Bowie's album titles.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lock Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 minute ago, RUPERTKBD said: Pretty sure that was one of David Bowie's album titles.... Ground control to Zombie Tom? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 2 hours ago, gurn said: iirc Space Ex has an idea to send an unmanned craft up to Mars, have it sit there for a couple of months while it creates enough fuel to return. Then send people up in another ship. When it is time to come home they move to the first ship and come home. Meanwhile the second ship begins to refuel itself, waiting for another crew to come up. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lock Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, Sharpshooter said: I mean, if you have enough money to do it and want to see it happen, even if it fails at least you tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Just now, The Lock said: I mean, if you have enough money to do it and want to see it happen, even if it fails at least you tried. It's just another inevitable step for humanity. We'll get there and beyond. It's in our DNA to explore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lock Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 1 minute ago, Sharpshooter said: It's just another inevitable step for humanity. We'll get there and beyond. It's in our DNA to explore. It would be interesting to me to see what technology eventually gets used to go these long distances, because Mars isn't even like going across the street to see the neighbours in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps just a trip to your front door? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilunga Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Sharpshooter said: It's just another inevitable step for humanity. We'll get there and beyond. It's in our DNA to explore. It's also in our DNA to destroy ourselves and the planet we live on. We are doing a reasonably good job of that now. Don't get me wrong I am excited about this just as I was when we all celebrated the Rover expedition,however I know our species ability to snatch defeat in the face of victory. At least there is not that much we can trash on Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lock Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 36 minutes ago, Ilunga said: It's also in our DNA to destroy ourselves and the planet we live on. We are doing a reasonably good job of that now. Don't get me wrong I am excited about this just as I was when we all celebrated the Rover expedition,however I know our species ability to snatch defeat in the face of victory. At least there is not that much we can trash on Mars. Until we find Atlantis on Mars... and kill them from our germs accidentally.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilunga Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 3 minutes ago, The Lock said: Until we find Atlantis on Mars... and kill them from our germs accidentally.... I know you are joking however this is a concern we must consider if we do find a planet in the future that has life on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 49 minutes ago, Ilunga said: It's also in our DNA to destroy ourselves and the planet we live on. We are doing a reasonably good job of that now. Don't get me wrong I am excited about this just as I was when we all celebrated the Rover expedition,however I know our species ability to snatch defeat in the face of victory. At least there is not that much we can trash on Mars. I understand your concern. We may be expanding more/faster than we're socially evolving. Being violent, adversarial, and hatred is inherent in us. Without dealing with these ancient and yet ever-present social/individual vestiges, our future endeavors may always be endangered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coho8888 Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 4 hours ago, Sharpshooter said: I was impressed with how much they got right about that movie, Damon aside. It was one of the better Mars movies that I can totally recall. I see what you did there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopshodan Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 We wont go intergalactic Not the way we're getting along. But finding out more about Mars is cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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