The Mars Colony

Zachstar · 07-07-10, 10:16 PM

This topic keeps coming up as "Justification" Despite massive job loss environmental disasters and other priorities that would better served by the TRILLIONs of dollars needed to do a serious mars colony.

Why do I say trillions? Lets just talk about a few of the things that we would HAVE to develop.

Fully functional multi use SSTO shuttle 1 stage no booster or anything falling off.

PB11 fusion

50 percent efficient with holographic multi angle multi spectrum thin film solar that is reliable for 10-20 years with only 20 percent drop being pounded by mars dust particles

Fully functional and efficient dual use Hydrogen fuelcell and ultracapasitor energy storage system.

Complete Algae protein to foodstuff system. (Growing massive amounts of traditional food on mars is a waste of space and any disaster would cause starvation)

Laser drilling

A low power system to break up and enrich ore so the colony can be self sustaining.

A complete system to cheaply extract carbon from the atmosphere to manufacture plastics.

A said a few and these MASSIVE economy changing techs are just the start of what is needed for a serious colony. What about radiation in the thin atmosphere? etc...

100 years minimum

07-07-10, 10:16 PM	#6
Zachstar Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Shreveport, Louisiana Posts: 1,956 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	This topic keeps coming up as "Justification" Despite massive job loss environmental disasters and other priorities that would better served by the TRILLIONs of dollars needed to do a serious mars colony. Why do I say trillions? Lets just talk about a few of the things that we would HAVE to develop. Fully functional multi use SSTO shuttle 1 stage no booster or anything falling off. PB11 fusion 50 percent efficient with holographic multi angle multi spectrum thin film solar that is reliable for 10-20 years with only 20 percent drop being pounded by mars dust particles Fully functional and efficient dual use Hydrogen fuelcell and ultracapasitor energy storage system. Complete Algae protein to foodstuff system. (Growing massive amounts of traditional food on mars is a waste of space and any disaster would cause starvation) Laser drilling A low power system to break up and enrich ore so the colony can be self sustaining. A complete system to cheaply extract carbon from the atmosphere to manufacture plastics. A said a few and these MASSIVE economy changing techs are just the start of what is needed for a serious colony. What about radiation in the thin atmosphere? etc... 100 years minimum __________________