/sci/ - Science & Math

Let's say I'm a multi-billionaire, and I want to fund some science for the glory of Satan.

What would you recommend?

What do you think motivates people to be anti-intellectual and attack scientists, engineers and others?

>>4311326
I don't think that would be a popular idea. The public wouldn't probably get pretty pissed if NASA and friends spent tens of billions of dollars getting men to Mars only to go use remote control robots again.

A manned mission to Mars isn't just about the science. It's about satiating the thirst for exploration, HUMAN exploration.

Plus I'd be pretty pissed if I was sent all the way to Mars and had to spend a year on the surface looking at a monitor screen. I want to find the creepy crawlies of Mars with the shovel on my back and the microscope in my bag, not with a probe.

>terraforming Mars
My body is ready.

>>4021449
I watched that once, pretty good, besides that somehow there's no water on Mars yet a completely breathable atmosphere by 2050.

>>3960742
China has an ambitious road map. Maybe.

>>3866887
>Why aren't we exploring the galaxy at relativistic velocities yet?
Ships large and sophisticated enough to do so would be absolutely gargantuan, and as sending anything into orbit costs thousands of dollars per kilogram, it hasn't been done. We require some way of easily assembling most of the heavy components in orbit out of asteroids/minor gravity wells.

>>3601170
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gravity#Rotation

>>3512269
>Mars doesnt have a molten core and therefore no magnetic field to protect us from radiation
Magnetic field isn't what protects us from much of the harmful radiation, it's the atmosphere itself. Magnetic field prevents the solar wind and charged particles from creating aurora across all skies, as well as drastically slowing the rate of atmospheric erosion, as discussed earlier in this thread.
See >>3512072

>there are no inhabitable planets near us, we're stuck on earth
No planets that will sustain us currently WITHOUT technology. We can develop systems that allow vast numbers of humans to live and thrive on other worlds.

>it only took 100,000 years to go from monkeys to humans, if we stay alive for that long we'll go extinct simply by virtue of having evolved into something else
Babby's first nihilism

>tldr, stay on earth, keep it safe
One word: Dinosaurs.

>>3305159
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/mars-south-pole-holds-nearly-an-atmospheres-worth-of-co2
.ars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Hydrology
>However, the two polar ice caps appear to be made largely of water.[46][47] The volume of water ice in the south polar ice cap, if melted, would be sufficient to cover the entire planetary surface to a depth of 11 meters.[48] A permafrost mantle stretches from the pole to latitudes of about 60°.[46]

If anyone has any questions about space, I'd be happy to [try to] answer them.