Well there is a Mars Society establishes institute to advance colony on Mars, so you may have your chance. The space advocacy movement has announced an initiative to found the Mars Technology Institute, which aims to create the technologies necessary for establishing a presence on the red planet. So are you signing up yet? This Society is focused to create the technologies necessary for establishing a presence on the red planet.
Dr. Robert Zubrin, who is also the president of Mars Society, expressed: “SpaceX and other entrepreneurial launch companies are already moving rapidly to develop the transportation systems that can get us to the planet Mars. What is needed is an institution devoted to developing the technologies that will allow us to live once we are there.”
Zubrin noted that most necessary resources needed to support human settlement are already on Mars; however, essential technological developments are required to transform the materials into fuel, oxygen, food, bricks, cement, metals, glass, fabrics, plastics, energy, and labor power.
“As I have argued in several publications, Mars cities themselves will be inventors’ colonies devoted to pursuing advances in these areas and will use the resulting technologies both to survive and prosper on the Red Planet and to obtain the income necessary to pay for imports by licensing such inventions on the home planet,” said Zubrin.
There will be three three vital needs on Mars this includes: severe constraints on labor, agricultural land, and sources of energy, according to the Mars Society. I can imagine there indeed will be some severe constraints on all of the above. First there is this: Mars' atmosphere is over 100 times thinner than Earth's and is primarily composed of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and argon gases. Then there is the average temperature on Mars is about minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 degrees Celsius), although it can vary from minus 195 F (minus 125 C) near the poles during the winter to as much as a comfortable 70 F (20 C) at midday near the equator.
The Equator may be the best bet to start in terms of temperature, but the atmosphere will be a major challenge. Have spacesuit will travel perhaps?
In order to meet the labor shortage, automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence could contribute substantially.
Addressing its scarcity of land, Mars must pioneer advancements in biotechnology, encompassing genetic engineering, microbial food production, advanced agricultural systems such as aquaponics, and synthetic biology.
Additionally, to overcome its lack of fossil fuels or hydroelectric power options and the limitations of solar and wind energy sources, Mars must lead in the development of advanced nuclear technologies, encompassing both fission and fusion. So like in the movie the Martian there will have to be nuclear fuel on Mars.
What is interesting is that MIT is focusing on biotech research. That is both scary and exciting at the same time. MTI will prioritize evolving the biotechnology section as this area is not significantly being addressed. They stated that AI is already being worked on immensely by others, and advanced nuclear research requires committing significant capital that is harder to muster in the short term.
Biotechnology, in contrast, doesn’t require as much financial investment but is more likely to produce financial returns that would support further research.
“Our current research is not driven by the same constraints and optimization directions as would be faced on the Red Planet, specifically the need to produce food at scale with extreme limitations of arable land,” a statement by the organization said.
Zubrin expanded on the subject, explaining that Iowa cornfields are among the most productive farms on Earth, producing 12 metric tons of corn per hectare annually. That’s enough for a hectare to supply 30 people with a kilogram of corn per day or feed 20 people, assuming some land is devoted to fruits, vegetables, and meat.
However, sustaining a Mars settlement of 100,000 people at this productivity level would mandate 5,000 hectares (equivalent to 12,355 acres) of farmland. This estimate is based on a positive assumption that such productivity could be achieved under Mars' lower solar illumination levels, which are only half of what Iowa receives.
“If we tried to augment production by supplying artificial light at 200 W per square meter (1/5th of Iowa sunlight at noon), we would need 10 Gigawatts of electricity, about a third of the total power consumption of Australia!” Zubrin noted.
The founder says that the results have been driven by the inefficiency in photosynthesis, which was roughly four percent at the cellular level but just 0.2 percent of it is efficient in converting the solar energy affecting a cornfield into biologically useful energy in the form of corn.
Zuber said that such complex issues can be resolved using biotechnology. “By so doing, we will not only make it possible for humanity to become multi-planetary, we will decisively refute the canard that space advocates do not care about the basic needs of people on Earth.”
As you see there are a lot of challenges and costs to figure out how to establish a base on Mars. To help with the costs both the institute concentrating on the red planet’s human exploration will strive to be a non-profit organization and seek its funding from tax-deductible donations. MTI will also establish a C-Corp – the Mars Technology Lab (MTL).
MTI plans to outsource research to universities and will also conduct research on its own campus once set up while aiming to establish itself as the flagship of a broadly based international STEM program.
The mission has already recruited 12 leading experts from biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and advanced nuclear energy technology to form the MTI advisory board.
“The MTI could become not only the engine of invention, but also the engine of finance to enable the human exploration and settlement of Mars,” Zubrin stated.
“To quote Frederick Douglas, ‘Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.’ Rather than rely on NASA to establish humanity on the planet Mars, I suggest we take up the challenge ourselves.”
So would you live on Mars once the above are figured out?
References:
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mars-society-institute-advance-colony-mars
https://www.space.com/16903-mars-atmosphere-climate-weather.html
I have lost a lot of faith with the Medical Community and the Governments over the last several years, but there are a few good things that can raise above the corruption and the pushing of drugs a new approach to heal people. The following is from www.gaia.com and written by Hunter Parsons that does not involve any drug or pushing an ineffective so called vaccine that the drug company is not held accountable in any way but they use sound! The use of sound can regrow bone tissue! Here is the story:
"The future of regenerative medicine could be found within sound healing by regrowing bone cells with sound waves.
The use of sound as a healing modality has an ancient tradition all over the world. The ancient Greeks used sound to cure mental disorders; Australian Aborigines reportedly use the didgeridoo to heal; and Tibetan or Himalayan singing bowls were, and still are, used for spiritual healing ceremonies.
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"Wormholes, invisibility cloaks, and anti-gravity — it’s not science fiction, it’s just some of the exotic things the U.S. government has been researching.
A massive document dump by the Defense Intelligence Agency shows some of the wild research projects the United States government was, at least, funding through the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program known as AATIP.
And another lesser-known entity called the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program or AAWSAP
The Defense Intelligence Agency has recently released a large number of documents to different news outlets and individuals who have filed Freedom of Information Act requests.
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"Over the past decade, there have been a number of archeological revelations pushing back the timeline of human evolution and our ancient ancestors’ various diasporas. Initially, these discoveries elicit some resistance as archeologists bemoan the daunting prospect of rewriting the history books, though once enough evidence is presented to established institutions, a new chronology becomes accepted.
But this really only pertains to the era of human development that predates civilization — the epochs of our past in which we were merely hunter-gatherers and nomads roaming the savannahs. Try challenging the consensus timeline of human civilization and it’s likely you’ll be met with derision and rigidity.
Conversely, someone of an alternative...
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"Chaos theory deals with dynamic systems, which are highly sensitive to initial conditions, making it almost impossible to track the resulting unpredictable behavior. Chaos theory seeks to find patterns in systems that appear random, such as weather, fluid turbulence, and the stock market.
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As Edward Lorenz, who first proposed what became commonly known as the Butterfly Effect, eloquently said, "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.""
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The following is from an article from interestingengineering.com and written by Paul Ratner:
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