1 G field is easy, just spin the craft or have workout center in centrifuge. Once on Mars, you'll go into centrifuge for daily workout at 1G for half hour or whatever.
The public wouldn't have much problem if regular supplies were sent
I'm holding out for Japanese or Chinese asian women on mars. I'm particular. You can put all the korean or indian or thai women you want up there, and I'm not going.
that's wrong, even in the center of the Sun each cubic meter of material produces energy on the order of a candle, that's how very hard H-H fusion is to do and how rarely it occurs under the most extreme of conditions of pressure and density. We'll never use H-H fusion, it's only for stars. What we have done is D-T fusion at huge energy loss.
the ITER *might* break even, and there are a dozen good reasons it might not (the harder you squeeze plasma the faster it escapes through the metaphorical cracks). More likely a breakthrough would come from certain types of fusors such as the Bussard polywell. Which by the way the report on the WB-8 testing is due at the end of this month, to get funding for WB-8.1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
I'd even go so far as to say if the Polywell doesn't pan out, we're screwed for fusion power. I have very little confidence in a multi-decade multi-billion dollar boondoggle political showboat project
Antimatter is hideously expensive to produce due to amount of energy, tens of trillions of U.S. dollars per gram. You'd need tons of it to get to another star with a manned vehicle. It's just another pipe dream. More likely we'll use fusion power to get to stars for journeys of decades or more.
It's actually disappointing, how few stars there are in the sky that can be seen, two or three thousand at any one time under the most ideal conditions. Suppose that the chances of intelligent life are on average one per milky-way sized galaxy, then each such planet would be essentially alone and never able to communicate with another and would forever be unaware of the other's existence.
I do pay rapt attention to space exploration.
The atrophy, loss, isn't just in muscle, but bone mass which is a dire health hazard, might be lethal and certainly would be crippling over a few years even if one never came back to 1 G field.
The existence of tunnels is still speculative from a couple pictures of deeps holes that *might* connect with underground lava tunnels.
We're talking about a colony that can sustain the human race if the earth become uninhabitable by humans for years. We'd need hundreds if not thousands of humans up there, and trade while civilization has collapsed is not possible. The moon does not have the necessary nutrients to support life, high temperature during formation has driven away elements with low melting points and kept the "refractory" ones.
What are you babbling about, two most powerful optical telescopes are Keck in Hawaii and Hubble in space. Most powerful IR telescope is Spitzer, U.S. owned and operated. Fermi gamma ray telescope, by NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Sweden. Then there's the Atacama in Chile which will be the most power radio telescope, funded by the U.S., Canada, EU and Japan.
Very few of those dots are galaxies, maybe six if you went all over the world and looked at the sky far from cities....the human eye can only see Andromeda and a few bright companions of the Milky Way.
It could very well be that multi-cellular life is unique to Earth, or intelligent life is. Life itself might be due to peculiar unique thing to earth, perhaps the accident that made our moon and mars.
I do watch japanese news. March 15, japanese within 30 kilometers told to stay indoors. those within 10km advised to leave but no enforced exclusion until quite recently.
no hype at all, just because there wasn't spectacular core explosion doesn't change the truth of my words, which even you affirm with "The total amount of radiation released is roughly equivalent". And the contamination release is ongoing, check back in six months and we'll compare the totals with Chernobyl then.
sorry, but that type of colony is useless. Low gravity causes atrophy of the body. The radiation level is too high on the moon for chronic exposure unless massive shielding is constructed. Your moon habitat would die without regular replenishment from earth because necessary elements and nutrients for life are not on the moon, we don't have the technology for a true closed cycle habitat. And the gene pool from a dozen people would be too sparse, you need hundreds if not thousands of people to continue the human race.
that's the tripe the gobalist elite, who claim they are "capitalists", spew while taking advantage of the lower labor costs of enslaved or partially enslaved people, while they are tearing the U.S. down to that level.
I would say by recent events it is they who will get the consequences of their choice, and the U.S. "austerity party" is going to make the european and middle east riots look like a sunday school picnic.
20 miles underground is an inferno, depending on location that's near or beyond the bottom of the earth's crust. A half mile deep is more than sufficient protection for any nuclear bomb made thus far, even if the Tsar bomb was detonated on the ground with third stage in place for 100MT yield, the crater would be only be a couple hundred of meters deep.
But yes, underground shelter much saner than some space station you can't reach or maintain later.
we won't have technology to do anything about monster asteroids for hundreds of years, no way to deflect them and no way to make a colony. the way we explore space and send manned space flights now have nothing whatever to do with how a sustainable colony would be built. manned space flight is a total waste of money,anything of benefit can be done by robots or by remote control (weightless manufacturing, etc.)
better to do "Pit and the Pendulum" (1990) test where the Inquisitor just *has* to order hot, hot Rona De Ricci stripped naked to look for witchcraft markings
except the Japanese government has been going along with TEPCO's lies until later truth is revealed. No melted fuel, no need for exclusion zone just stay inside you'll be fine, no breach of containment, not a Chernobyl (already the same order of magnitude of contamination released and it's still rising), etc.
As an engineering physicist, I could tell weeks ahead of time that B.S. an lies were being spewed by certain tell-tales (e.g. chlorine detected reveals ongoing fission)
I'm not with the Japanese government, since when has a bunch of bureaucrats been qualified to advise on safety or correct steps of action to any accident involving scientific or engineering principals? Never ever, they are just power and money grubbing parasites, in every age and every civilization.
wildly inaccurate? Seems to me TEPCO and the japanese government have been the biggest offenders as later reality proves their lies:
"don't need an exclusion zone, just stay indoors and you'll be fine"
"no fuel has melted
"the rods in the spent fuel pool aren't uncovered"
The study did not address the issue of sexual orientation. It did, however, find half of male Mac users took it in the ass, while the other half indicated a preference for sodomizing bungholes.
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1 G field is easy, just spin the craft or have workout center in centrifuge. Once on Mars, you'll go into centrifuge for daily workout at 1G for half hour or whatever. The public wouldn't have much problem if regular supplies were sent
I'm holding out for Japanese or Chinese asian women on mars. I'm particular. You can put all the korean or indian or thai women you want up there, and I'm not going.
that's wrong, even in the center of the Sun each cubic meter of material produces energy on the order of a candle, that's how very hard H-H fusion is to do and how rarely it occurs under the most extreme of conditions of pressure and density. We'll never use H-H fusion, it's only for stars. What we have done is D-T fusion at huge energy loss.
the ITER *might* break even, and there are a dozen good reasons it might not (the harder you squeeze plasma the faster it escapes through the metaphorical cracks). More likely a breakthrough would come from certain types of fusors such as the Bussard polywell. Which by the way the report on the WB-8 testing is due at the end of this month, to get funding for WB-8.1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
I'd even go so far as to say if the Polywell doesn't pan out, we're screwed for fusion power. I have very little confidence in a multi-decade multi-billion dollar boondoggle political showboat project
one thing the moon DOES have is the elements to make solar panels, both concentrator and semiconductor. So you'd only need to "seed" the operation.
Antimatter is hideously expensive to produce due to amount of energy, tens of trillions of U.S. dollars per gram. You'd need tons of it to get to another star with a manned vehicle. It's just another pipe dream. More likely we'll use fusion power to get to stars for journeys of decades or more.
Boron fusion takes ten times the energy of D-T fusion, may never be practical.
Do you have any idea of the cost of your He3 refrigerant if we get it from the moon? Millions of dollars an ounce is NOT practical.
It's actually disappointing, how few stars there are in the sky that can be seen, two or three thousand at any one time under the most ideal conditions. Suppose that the chances of intelligent life are on average one per milky-way sized galaxy, then each such planet would be essentially alone and never able to communicate with another and would forever be unaware of the other's existence.
I do pay rapt attention to space exploration. The atrophy, loss, isn't just in muscle, but bone mass which is a dire health hazard, might be lethal and certainly would be crippling over a few years even if one never came back to 1 G field.
The existence of tunnels is still speculative from a couple pictures of deeps holes that *might* connect with underground lava tunnels.
We're talking about a colony that can sustain the human race if the earth become uninhabitable by humans for years. We'd need hundreds if not thousands of humans up there, and trade while civilization has collapsed is not possible. The moon does not have the necessary nutrients to support life, high temperature during formation has driven away elements with low melting points and kept the "refractory" ones.
What are you babbling about, two most powerful optical telescopes are Keck in Hawaii and Hubble in space. Most powerful IR telescope is Spitzer, U.S. owned and operated. Fermi gamma ray telescope, by NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Sweden. Then there's the Atacama in Chile which will be the most power radio telescope, funded by the U.S., Canada, EU and Japan.
Very few of those dots are galaxies, maybe six if you went all over the world and looked at the sky far from cities....the human eye can only see Andromeda and a few bright companions of the Milky Way.
It could very well be that multi-cellular life is unique to Earth, or intelligent life is. Life itself might be due to peculiar unique thing to earth, perhaps the accident that made our moon and mars.
I do watch japanese news. March 15, japanese within 30 kilometers told to stay indoors. those within 10km advised to leave but no enforced exclusion until quite recently.
TEPCO changed their tune, but people like you with malleable marshmellow memories are a propagandist's delight.
Get a clue, contamination is measured in becquerels for a given type and origin, not your "levels".
no hype at all, just because there wasn't spectacular core explosion doesn't change the truth of my words, which even you affirm with "The total amount of radiation released is roughly equivalent". And the contamination release is ongoing, check back in six months and we'll compare the totals with Chernobyl then.
sorry, but that type of colony is useless. Low gravity causes atrophy of the body. The radiation level is too high on the moon for chronic exposure unless massive shielding is constructed. Your moon habitat would die without regular replenishment from earth because necessary elements and nutrients for life are not on the moon, we don't have the technology for a true closed cycle habitat. And the gene pool from a dozen people would be too sparse, you need hundreds if not thousands of people to continue the human race.
that's the tripe the gobalist elite, who claim they are "capitalists", spew while taking advantage of the lower labor costs of enslaved or partially enslaved people, while they are tearing the U.S. down to that level.
I would say by recent events it is they who will get the consequences of their choice, and the U.S. "austerity party" is going to make the european and middle east riots look like a sunday school picnic.
20 miles underground is an inferno, depending on location that's near or beyond the bottom of the earth's crust. A half mile deep is more than sufficient protection for any nuclear bomb made thus far, even if the Tsar bomb was detonated on the ground with third stage in place for 100MT yield, the crater would be only be a couple hundred of meters deep. But yes, underground shelter much saner than some space station you can't reach or maintain later.
we won't have technology to do anything about monster asteroids for hundreds of years, no way to deflect them and no way to make a colony. the way we explore space and send manned space flights now have nothing whatever to do with how a sustainable colony would be built. manned space flight is a total waste of money,anything of benefit can be done by robots or by remote control (weightless manufacturing, etc.)
i.e. see if she has "a third nipple, where Satan sucks"
better to do "Pit and the Pendulum" (1990) test where the Inquisitor just *has* to order hot, hot Rona De Ricci stripped naked to look for witchcraft markings
except the Japanese government has been going along with TEPCO's lies until later truth is revealed. No melted fuel, no need for exclusion zone just stay inside you'll be fine, no breach of containment, not a Chernobyl (already the same order of magnitude of contamination released and it's still rising), etc. As an engineering physicist, I could tell weeks ahead of time that B.S. an lies were being spewed by certain tell-tales (e.g. chlorine detected reveals ongoing fission) I'm not with the Japanese government, since when has a bunch of bureaucrats been qualified to advise on safety or correct steps of action to any accident involving scientific or engineering principals? Never ever, they are just power and money grubbing parasites, in every age and every civilization.
wildly inaccurate? Seems to me TEPCO and the japanese government have been the biggest offenders as later reality proves their lies: "don't need an exclusion zone, just stay indoors and you'll be fine"
"no fuel has melted
"the rods in the spent fuel pool aren't uncovered"
"containment hasn't been breached"
The study did not address the issue of sexual orientation. It did, however, find half of male Mac users took it in the ass, while the other half indicated a preference for sodomizing bungholes.
it's tastier than Python or Camel meat