Astronomy Mission to Mars

Will we see a manned Mars mission within 10 years

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Beginning to sound like not much return for a huge outlay. what does Musky think?

Far quicker to just send some of our microbes there and see if they survive. God knows it worked in colonisation of earth
 
Pessimistic said:
Beginning to sound like not much return for a huge outlay. what does Musky think?

Far quicker to just send some of our microbes there and see if they survive. God knows it worked in colonisation of earth
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This is also a genuine concern, we have to prevent contamination of samples.

The holy grail is to find a life that is nothing like what we have here, perhaps not even carbon based and potentially incompatible with our known life. Then we don't need to worry that we roll up on Mars, take a swig of the Martian ice cap water and grow some alien bacteria in our body that our immune system has never seen before and we die.

Perhaps a much simpler genetic system that we can base our own life creation experiments on.
 
Tayl0r said:
This is also a genuine concern, we have to prevent contamination of samples.

The holy grail is to find a life that is nothing like what we have here, perhaps not even carbon based and potentially incompatible with our known life. Then we don't need to worry that we roll up on Mars, take a swig of the Martian ice cap water and grow some alien bacteria in our body that our immune system has never seen before and we die.

Perhaps a much simpler genetic system that we can base our own life creation experiments on.
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Vodka Martian, shaken not stirred.

fwiw I reckon the water which such life is built upon would be very similar, so why wouldn't the life?
 

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Pessimistic said:
Vodka Martian, shaken not stirred.

fwiw I reckon the water which such life is built upon would be very similar, so why wouldn't the life?
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That's the percentage position, for sure. It's not the holy grail find but it's the realistic expectation should there be any life there.

I'd love for a discovery where the findings are so different that the hypotheses around how that life could have developed are dismissed because the same conditions would be present here or could be created here, then we try it and it works. We make life. Or we find new life here that we didn't consider life before.
 
Admiral Byng said:
Terraforming Mars turns out to be a non-starter. There just isn't enough material available to build up an atmosphere.

https://newatlas.com/terraforming-mars-nasa-study/55686
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Agreed. Mars only has 0.6% of Earth's atmospheric pressure, plus the low gravity and lack of magnetic field means the solar wind will whittle away what's left of the Martian atmosphere. Terraforming to the point of being able to sustain life there is a pipedream.
 
I love what Elon Musk is doing at the moment, he knows too much and has clearly reached a point where he's on this clear level of thinking that many are not on, he knows that something needs to be done for bases on Mars...
He knows the time to move is now.

Todays announcement, flying people to see the moon


His current world philosphy..
 
The Curiosity Rover takes a selfie

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Two miniature satellites (Eve and Wall-E) have nearly reached Mars. They'll fly past to within 3500km, without going into orbit:

NASA's shoebox satellites on a history-making mission to Mars to catch InSight touchdown

The InSight robotic lander was launched on May 5th and is predicted to land on Mars on November 26th, a journey of 6 months and 3 weeks. It's designed to study the interior of the red planet. Hopefully this will improve our understanding of the terrestrial planets.
 

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