/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4019916
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_mars#References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin#Qualifications_and_professional_experience

>>3931835
>Hey, I'm a grad student working on Mars.
Oh fuck, Robert Zubrin's parallel universe is colliding with this one

>>3551963
Because public opinion is that it is a one way ticket does not mean it is. Mars Direct gets back to Earth by carrying a little bit extra hydrogen, then using the Sabatier reaction to make methane/oxygen rocket fuel to get back to Earth by combining the hydrogen with carbon dioxide in the thin Martian atmosphere.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-29/opinion/zubrin.mars_1_martian-life-martian-surface-red-planet/3?_
s=PM:OPINION

>>3505424
Mars is my thing.

>>3500549
>we know we can't do shit on mars until we've advanced some other technologies first.
INCORRECT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ4KIB4GqEA

>>3500559
I was going to respond to you until you implied Mars has zero gravity.

'Right now - HALF of the world's patents are held by Americans. Now that's something that as Americans we can be proud of, but REALLY, it would be nice if the OTHER 95% of the world was contributing equally to technological progress. What a world that could be.'
-- Robert Zubrin

So yes, we can never have enough scientists.

>>3029479
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAUmFjHxI1c

>>2968371
Nah, just angry and enthusiastic.

NASA creates eight times more money than it uses off the patents that it holds that were created through research.
Downside is all the money goes directly to the US Treasury.

>>2923767
15,000 treatments for 600,000 dollars = $9,000,000,000
or
1,500,000,000 for 600 dollars = $900,000,000,000

>implying it would take anything close to 1,000 years to get those results.
I can get it done by 2250 easy.

>>2792329
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article4799369.ece
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/lord-british-wants-to-take-you-to-space-and-hes-closer-th
an-you-think.ars/3
http://www.universetoday.com/73536/nasa-considering-rail-gun-launch-system-to-the-stars/

US Government won't fund our planetary mass driver to put Ceres into a 25,000km orbit above Earth.

>>2606353

>>2590323
>It's a hoax because it is a minor problem.
No
>It is used to draw attention from the major problem, the one that the media will never mention - overpopulation, and as a result over-consumption.
Oh great.
>technology won't save us
Vertical farming, skyscrapers, use of non-polluting energy sources and less emissions from factories so larger cities are feasible/not unhealthy as fuck.
>mining for minerals in space won't either.
Nah, you're retarded.

>>2472986
This motherfucker right here

1. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9567-plasma-bubble-could-protect-astronauts-on-mars-trip.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter_rocket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
3. See 2 + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
4. "Finding minerals on Earth will always be a billion times cheaper than going all the fucking way out to space and somehow safely get it to the surface on Earth."
http://news.slashdot.org/story/08/07/01/2331207/Supplies-of-Rare-Earth-Elements-Exhausted-By-2017
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1316538/Gliese-581g-mystery-Scientist-spotted-mysteri
ous-pulse-light-direction-newEarth-planet-year.html
5. >implying money will still be used if we have the technology for goddamn Bussard ramjets
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

>>2415368
I will soon go to university for astrophysics and aerospace engineering. Double major. Six years. Final destination.