/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11050037
>I want to watch the world burn and have a few lulz instead of look forward to the future

>>8812228

>>8614742
>not understanding how right >>8614459 is

>>8263024
I hoped not. Back to /g/ then..

>>8034530
> everybody

>>8005342
>It's simply a matter of people and time.
No it isn't. Not even close. I'll explain further but,
>Get a few shiploads of people out there and give them a decade or two; I'm quite confident that things will move more quickly than you think they will,
See no, you're drastically overestimating the rate at which anything gets done because, and I'm just guessing here, you've never experienced what it's like to live on the edge of "nowhere." I regularly take trips up to Alaska to pan for gold, even temporary encampments north of a certain invisible boundary are all but impossible because of logistical concerns. This is on our own planet by the way, every single issue of moving stuff to Alaska and then moving through Alaska is magnitudes more difficult when you're doing all of that ON ANOTHER PLANET.

Look, you're trying to assert that Mars will be a "military superpower" in a few decades. Unless you're moving thousands of people at once you simply won't have the numbers to do it, provided those same people are reproducing at a rate of one child every year. Let's say every year ten thousand people go to Mars, that means in a year's time they'll get there, settle, and then conceive one child. So next year you will have fifteen hundred new people, but only a thousand of them will be able to repeat that process. Meanwhile you have five hundred infants that need to be fed and cared for, and let me tell you babies need a LOT of resources. So the next year after that you have four thousand people, but only three thousand can reproduce, a thousand are toddlers or infants...

This is just manpower, we're not even getting into the resource problem I mentioned. Then there's the issue of actually handling that volume of people on a planet that is absolutely not a good place to live, and then while you're doing that you need to actually build even MORE stuff for the inevitable influx of more people. Meanwhile the Martian colony is somehow building a military??? What?

>>7237021
>...When he returned to Germany in 1940 he authored a paper offering the hypothesis that they may have formed a galvanic cell, perhaps used for electroplating gold onto silver objects.[2][4]

>This interpretation is generally rejected today.[5][6]...

>>6636296
I just don't get the prices
wtf
>MFW

>>6442352
Jesus, dood. Calm down.