/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6093734

Many of your comments are helpful and insightful. I suppose that professors of Astronomy will be to the Space age what professors of Philosophy are today - utterly useless despite their insights.

Let us presume that I have 200 productive years ahead of me and that within 50 years, we will start the ridiculously slow process of colonizing Mars. I intend to somehow aid in this process in one way or another; be it design of Martian housing units, the shuttles to get there, the process of terraforming, exploration etc. I'm sure you can think of other more or less interesting and vital elements of Martian colonization.

What paths of education are relevant for which tasks? It's hard to find info about because relatively few have specialized on extraterrestrial colonization yet, for obvious reasons. A billion bonus points if your suggested path of education gets me to Mars or elsewhere in space personally.

Pic is unrelated but interesting.