/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11639122
I do want to add as a caveat that Mars will likely have a fairly substantial population regardless. It's position is vital for going anywhere beyond the asteroid belt, it's easy to get to, it has an abundance of easily ex tractable resources, its fairly easy to build on/in, etc. Mars orbit will likely be where the major ore refineries and storage facilities are, and possibly it's the best location for a gravity assist tether system around phobos for getting either beyond the asteroid belt or in toward Earth/Venus/Mercury.

So Mars will almost certainly be a major hub either way, but orbital colonies still just make more economic sense than most terrestrial worlds.

>>11560372
Why climb a mountain?
Why sail across the oceans and circumnavigate the world?
Why fly across a continent in a contraption made of balsa wood with a small bike engine?
Why race other people in vehicles specifically engineered for speed?
Why make flying vehicles that can break the sound barrier?
Why put Men into orbit?
Why go to the Moon?

Because those things are there. Because we can. Humans don't NEED to go to Mars, we WANT to go to Mars. To prove that we can. To see the surface of another world with our own eyes. To find out what is there.

Humans will go to Mars for no other reason than because we can.

Mars is the future of human exploration, three important reasons:

- It will be use as a gateway to travel outer worlds (Jupiter, Saturn...)

- Low gravity (1/3 of Earth), so easy to escape its gravity (Starship SSTO...)

- Has enough resource to support self-sustaining cities

If you could make a country on mars what would you name it? what form of government would it have?

Is colonizing mars and the moon impossible?

From what i understand if humans are not subjected to the exact same gravity that they are subject to on earth it leads to muscle loss, bone loss and blindness

What about radiation?

>>10466562
sometimes progress seems really fast.
but then you think further ahead and realize were still going very slow

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/12/us/nasa-woman-on-mars-trnd/index.html

>Chances are the first person to land on the red planet will be a woman, the head of NASA said recently. Jim Bridenstine was a guest on the science and technology radio show "Science Friday," when he teased that a woman is "likely to be" the first person on Mars. The NASA administrator did not identify a specific person, but said women are at the forefront of the agency's upcoming plans.
Bridenstine responded "absolutely" to a question from a Twitter user who asked whether women will be included in the agency's next trip to the moon.

Men will stand in the way of progress no longer.

And if not, good orbital data for artificial Mars satellites (such as argument of periapsis)? I've been looking but can't find anything.