Wtf is even going on

submitted by MolecCodiciesCOVID-9/11 Vaccines Don’t Work from i.imgur.com

sorted by:
new (suggested)
topinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]MolecCodiciesCOVID-9/11 Vaccines Don’t Work[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Earth may be uninhabitable for a few years in the near future due to nuclear winter.

I cannot conceive of any scenario in which earth could become less habitable than mars. Certainly not nuclear winter. Mars is already extremely radioactive, it has no atmosphere and insufficient magnetic field so you would be constantly bombarded by radiation. No atmosphere also means you can’t breathe there, of course. Any sort of shelter you might build to supply you with an artificial atmosphere could much more easily be built on earth

Perhaps most notably Mars lacks sufficient gravity to support human life. Our muscles and bones would waste away rapidly due to the lower gravity and that by itself would kill any human within months.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Perhaps most notably Mars lacks sufficient gravity to support human life. Our muscles and bones would waste away rapidly due to the lower gravity and that by itself would kill any human within months.

I suggest you take a look at Wiki-Pooh's article on Artificial Gravity

In 1964, the Soviet space program believed that a human could not survive more than 14 days in space for fear that the heart and blood vessels would be unable to adapt to the weightless conditions. This fear was eventually discovered to be unfounded as spaceflights have now lasted up to 437 consecutive days, with missions aboard the International Space Station commonly lasting 6 months.

[–]MolecCodiciesCOVID-9/11 Vaccines Don’t Work[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

This would seem to agree with my statements that living outside of earth’s gravity for a period longer than approximately 6 months is not possible.

Also artificial gravity is much more achievable on a rotating space station than on a planet with a pre-existing orbit which cannot easily be altered. (How would you accelerate the rotation of mars?)

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

How would you accelerate the rotation of mars?

I think you are making it much harder than it needs to be. Just use a Gravitron.

Besides, the surface gravity of Mars is 0.3794 g. It's not like you're in free fall as in a space station. My guess is that you may not even need artificial gravity. "Now, watch this drive!"

[–][deleted]  (4 children)

[deleted]

    [–]CaelianPost No Toasties 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    In other words, the faster it rotates, the more it tries to whup your bum out into space.

    This is true. But in a Gravitron, "the world is hollow and I have touched the sky". As the rotation speeds up, the centrifugal force pushes you against the wall. Faster rotation, stronger force. As an insect crawling on the wall, it's indistinguishable from gravity. I'm guessing that the physiological systems within your body are likewise fooled.

    H/T Star Trek

    [–]CaelianPost No Toasties 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    1 rev per year

    Per month, approximately.

    [–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Uhhh..... Musk is a bullshitter in the classic tradition. He tells people stories, gets them to buy into pie-in-the-sky projects, but in the real world he's sucking on the government teat for all the cash he can get.

    [–][deleted]  (3 children)

    [deleted]

      [–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      I am pretty confident we will see a manned mission to Mars at some point in the next 30 years. But it will be a vanity mission, not a real effort to colonize Mars. AFAIK humans can only survive on 1 planet, Earth, and I see no signs that this will ever change, unless faster-than-light travel is a real possibility (vanishingly unlikely).

      BTW, did you watch Avenue 5?

      [–]MolecCodiciesCOVID-9/11 Vaccines Don’t Work[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      I am pretty confident we will see a manned mission to Mars at some point in the next 30 years

      I will definitely be lacking such confidence until we see another manned mission to the moon. The last one was allegedly in 1972.

      did you watch Avenue 5?

      No is it good?

      [–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      It was funny as hell, and relevant to this discussion.