/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10303843
They wouldn't be able come back they would just die out there instead.

QED.

People that say yes to a hypothetical question won't necessarily say yes when it's no longer hypothetical.
Of course the vast majority couldn't handle it but there would also be a vast majority that would suddenly change their mind about going if you handed them a boarding pass dated for next week.

>>10303843
Sadly you cant do that. Any Mars mission will need to benefit from specific orientations of Earth and Mars relative to each other to minimize delta V and therefore fuel usage. Autists wont have the fuel to return unless they wait for the actual return time of the mission.

This is another reason I support a lunar base, weed out the weak 3 days from earth instead of 2 years from it.

>>10303843
If I had a good computer and internet better than Australia I'd stay no problem

>>10303993
Yes to the first, no to the latter. You'd also would be too busy to meme on the internet Anon

>>10303843

>The vast majority of Mars colonization autists would return back after preliminary psychological and physical testing on Earth

Fixed it for you.

>>10303843
People spend months working on submarines. People spend months trying to climb some worthless mountains. People spend months on a tiny boat trying to break some pointless records.

Not everybody is a spoiled burger bitch.

>>10303843
This.

It's physically and mentally impossible for people to be isolated away from nature in such way.

A week maybe but months or more?

Yikes. Just yikes.

>living in a completely artificial environment
>interact with very few people while performing basic work in exchange for living space and living wage
>most free time is spent playing video games etc.

Remind me again, what difference would it make for any of us?

>>10304052
People on the mars will be passionate in their work and have its own pride, and be respected to billions of people

>>10304052
You will need to actually work

>>10304039
Incorrect, you estrogen mongrel

>>10304052
>most free time is spent playing video games etc.
>having free time
what the fuck do you think theyre gonna be doing

>>10304039
would it really be much different from living on one of those antarctic research bases?

>>10304130
it would be about 10 times worse.
it's better to imagine it like living in a submarine on a multi-year mission, except you have to suit up every time you go outside added to that, and no stops at all at cities or anything like that.

>>10304052
I'll only weigh 38% of what I do here

>>10304138
I honestly wouldn't even care. My life has no purpose as it is, at least I'd be doing something with a fresh new start away from all the shit here.

>>10304168
>muh fresh start
literally nothing prevents you from making a fresh start. you're just a lazy faggot who needs an excuse to ignore his problems.

>>10304175
Agreed, >>10304168 is equiv to some new years resolution tier retard-think. Just fucking move to another city where you don't know anyone and it'll be the equivalent of moving to mars but you'll still have air you can breathe

>>10304175
>>10304181
This isn't the 60s where you can move ship and just be someone else. The internet means we take that shit with us everywhere. It's tiring, and there's no point in moving from city to the city when everywhere is the fucking same these days.

>>10304168
>my life is shit
>want a fresh start
>Irrevocably go to a red desert, impossible to get back home
>work like a slave so some billionaire can rule an empire millenia from now
>lose bone mass, get irradiated. die of cancer at the ripe age of 30

>>10303843
Nobody is ever going to spend a week on Mars

>>10304192

>>10303843
gays who worship mars deserve death

>>10304024
its like you ignored the part where he said vast majority

thanks for reillustrating that.

>>10304192
>Irrevocably go to a red desert, impossible to get back home
I love geology, and I don't really have a home m8.
>work like a slave so some billionaire can rule an empire millenia from now
As opposed to life on Earth? Nobody settles new horizons with that attitude.
>lose bone mass, get irradiated. die of cancer at the ripe age of 30
Better than shitting myself dead in a retirement home.

>>10304204
if you can't socialize on earth, you won't fit in as a settler considering you're stuck with them for the rest of your life. Whatever their impressions are of you you're stuck with, you won't be able to go somewhere else.

>>10304215
But the other people going to mars would probably be the same sort of autistic dropkicks as myself. And there wouldn't be any social media bullshit to influence everyday interaction.
I'm really not as introverted as you might think. I like enclosed spaces and I like other people. I just don't like the way Earth is heading.

>>10304227
>and I like other people
>can't socialize on earth
hmmmmm

>>10304203
>vast majority
According to many unqualified adjectives don't mean shit.

>>10304227
Mars will be affected by the way Earth is headed.
It's better to just become a hermit.

>>10303843
Not if a shrewd commander destroys the way back upon landing.

>>10304258
>Elon Musk already planning his excuses for when his rockets break upon landing on Mars

>>10303843
They would shit their pants in the space ship and wish they never left Earth. By the time they reach Mars they'll be useless nervous wrecks.

>>10304215

After a year orgies will be common place. After two years everyone will get fed up and just worry about food and water and having sex in less than earth gravity. The people responsible for keeping order will keep sending faking data to earth or they'll be killed off. Eventually someone will figure out how to synthetize Mars drugs.
Shit nigga, sign me up.

>>10304396
>After a year orgies will be common place.
Gay for Mars.

>>10304396
>mfw everyone finds a partner except you
>mfw there's no orgies
>mfw you're stuck jerking off without porn for the rest of your miserable life

>>10304192
it sounds comfy.

>>10304483
you can do it right now anon.

>>10304039
Mars is basically a desert so middle easterners should be right at home.

>>10304017
God, that sounds like a utopia for me. No more worrying about privacy, and no more shitty social media. Just me, a beefy ass computer, and a hydroponics farm.

>>10304503
We don't want to go wh*te boy. You go. We don't give a shit about space.

>>10304561
>Just me
Yep.
>a beefy ass computer
Nope, massive waste of resources.
>and a hydroponics farm.
Why would you have anything to do with one of the most important systems to the colony? You're the chicken soup dispenser repairman.

>>10304143
so about 200 pounds?

>>10304589
It's my 600 lb life, not my nearly 500 lb life.

>mars colony

JELLO BABIES!
JELLO BABIES!
JELLO BABIES!

>>10304052
>most free time is spent playing video games etc.

That is certainly not how it will work at all. "Driven," will be a key thing they look for when selecting people.

>>10304561
>No more worrying about privacy

You're kidding right? If you were on a Mars colony you'd be one of a few people in the solar system with the least amount of privacy to have ever existed. They will know the molecular make up of your urine and how many times a month you fapped. There will be, "live," streams for the public in many non-critical areas and every place will be plastered with cameras for control to monitor.

>>10304192
>work like a slave so some billionaire can rule an empire millenia from now
so not that different from earth then?

>>10304706
Privacy is still considered a human right, even on Mars
You can stop jerking off to your dystopian fan fiction now

>>10304935
>right

Oh that thing that other people pretend to allow you to have. Grow up.

>>10304935
Ah yes, because human rights are so well preserved, especially in unknown and dangerous situations!

And that's how you get the teenagers out of the woodwork

>>10303843
>The vast majority of New World colonization autists would return back to europe after spending a week in New World
Prove me wrong

>>10304995
First of all
>autists
conquistadors and similar folk are literally the opposite of you, virgin meet
second,
>unironically comparing a rich beautiful continent with a barren wasteland
they wouldve fucking returned if they saw a second Sahara instead of tropical islands, and America would be largely unpopulated as well
just look at Antarctica lmao

>>10305006
Thing is, people conolonized wastelands on Earth too.

But go ahead, believe that humanity soon reach imposible to break wall of science and enginering advancement to colonize anything beyond our planed ever in future. And that we will be always only on overpopulated globe.

>>10305051
>But go ahead, believe that humanity soon reach imposible to break wall of science and enginering advancement to colonize anything beyond our planed ever in future. And that we will be always only on overpopulated globe.
We are closer than ever before. We are still not that close.

>>10305051
>conolonized wastelands on Earth
where
>inb4 Saudi Arabia
literally a playground sandbox with cities built by fuck you money and easy access to resources and other cities

>>10305078
Greenland.

>>10305081
>Greenland
>population 56k
>they all live mostly in parts like pic related
>still abysmal living conditions
shit example.

>>10305105
I never said it wouldn't be worse than abysmal living conditions on Mars.

>>10305078
>>10305051
>>10305081
>>10305105
>>10305108
You have it all wrong. Colonization of Mars will be more like this than anything else.

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1547766839404.webm

>>10305170
>Mars dystopian tunnel rat society filled with drunk, jello baby, mongoloid, molemen complete with corrupt law enforcement, illegal tunnel digging, and economy based on clean air, water, electric, soil movement, drugs, alcohol, and sex.

Basically, Metro 2033 on Mars.

>All the soiboys and useless pricks fuck back off to Earth leaving only the real hard cunts

Fucking sign me up bros.

>>10305299
being on 4chan by itself automatically disqualifies you and any autists on this board from going to mars.
you need extreme dedication, intelligence, good social skills and physical fitness to go to space. all of these things are absolutely contradictory to a person who lurks 4chan regularly

>>10305312
>projecting this fucking hard

>>10305312
Great. I don't want to die on Mars for Elon musk

>>10303843
I doubt the people with the determination to get such positions would be the type to care about coming home, they'd literally be the "die in the attempt" types, ex-millitary and the like.

We'd be talking some very autistic, single-minded individuals on this one, the average person would probably get sick of it after a few hours though.

>>10305322
>y-youre just projecting
how regularly do you post to /sci/?

>>10305312
>good social skills

Yeah, we need to make a good impression on the Martians.

>>10305203
I like where this is going. How likely is the tunnel Mars compared to that stupid domed shit I see everywhere?

>>10305357
>I'm retarded
thanks for letting us know.

>>10304138
>it's better to imagine it like living in a submarine on a multi-year mission,
Mars has a lot of natural beauty, you can see stars, explore caves.Bases will have gardens and possibly things like small cinemas, saunas, perhaps swimming pools.

>>10305364
What you don't want to impress the Martian girls? Were the good social skills to keep one another entertained incase the in-flight movie goes down?

>>10305367
absolute kek

>>10305312
Speak for yourself mate.

>>10305367
And the red dust is a pretty colour.

>>10305370
if you don't understand why good communication and coordination skills are required for a multiyear Mars mission you are beyond salvation

>>10305363
Due to radiation it is a certainty.

>>10305363
100% except for greenhouses although even that seems unlikely given the engineering challenges presented compared to growing algae for fish and bird food in surface tubes and growing other plants in the tunnels with LEDs. The caveat to this would be if super duper radiation resistant clear metamaterials can be developed but that seems unlikely for now at least.

>>10305414
Well, gamma rays and such can't reflect in mirrors so there's at least one method to redirect sunlight to well covered areas. Something as simple as a light pipe with a bend in it can give a lot of light, albeit only Martian level sunlight to begin with.

>>10305669
Gamma ray flux on Mars is negligible, what's bad is the very high UV flux, luckily there exist many coatings and kinds of glass that are opaque to UV and are cheap to produce.

>>10304706
>*turns off the cameras*
now what?

>>10305725
No more supply shipments.

>>10303843
Is there any kind of glass that can block radiation like op's pic? Maybe not that big though.

>>10305741
Glass that can do that becomes useless for anything else like say growing plants and would need to be used for aesthetics or an observation port more than anything really useful. You're better off not having any windows that are meant to block primary radiation since secondary particles are the main problem anyway. Which is why shielding needs to be super thick.

>>10305363
Mars has plenty of lava tubes and domes, it was once geologically active.
They'd be an ideal spot to establish a colony because you don't need to worry about excavation of anything but your entry (assuming it's not partially collapsed, then you just need to seal up the open end.
Then you just need to reinforce and buttress anything structurally questionable. Then you inflate giant airbags in the cavern space and build your colony in normal air pressure. Set up your barracks, administration buildings, agriculture, cisterns, and all machinery needed to boot strap you into a position where you can begin expanding the colony and exploiting native resources to expand the colony.
Your first wave digs out space for the second wave. The second wave brings along all the things that you couldn't cram into the first wave, they help establish the self sufficiency of the colony, while still expanding it. Your third wave moves into a nearly functional colony, with their stores filled with tertiary equipment, luxury items, and new blood with the goal of growing the economy of the colony itself.
Once your population starts to get to a certain size, split some off to go start a new city.a few miles away connected by tunnels or surface roads.
Keep doing this until you've got a handful of closely connected cities that develop their own cultures and identities.
Save the surface domes for agriculture and recreational parks and nature preserves.
Knock some skylights into your underground cities if you want. Mars' day is close enough to earth's that it would be trivial to adapt to a martian day for the purposes of natural sleep/wake cycles.

>>10305377
>being this salty in a taiwanese chop, sweat, back to chop shop

>>10305770
>>10305377
forgot the check, at least you got dubs!

>>10305775
>>10305777

>>10305170
source plx

>>10305203
>>10304192
Sounds like Red Faction

>>10303993
8 to 9 minutes of latency under best conditions.

You would have to queue your data requests from earth, and deal with out of date locally cached web pages.

>>10303843
>Prove me wrong
You never got shipped off to summer camp, did you.

>>10305078
Salt lake city, utah.

>>10303843
>>10303852
>>10303855
>>10303860

It depends on the genetics of the Mars colonists. Watch this video that explains:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usk_xwlaWLg

Also read this chapter 11 a book called “Mein Kampf” which says that "Russians are a great people" in the text below :

http://hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv1ch11.html

>>10304192
This desu. I could only do it and not kill myself if I was with a wife who loved me

>>10305857
>>10306039
This thread is a perfect encapsulation of the mindset of marsfags: jobless NEET retards who haven't achieved anything in life and have an escapist fantasy of getting the honor to go to another planet and thinking it's gonna be like summer camp

>>10305203
>>Mars dystopian tunnel rat society filled with drunk, jello baby, mongoloid, molemen complete with corrupt law enforcement, illegal tunnel digging, and economy based on clean air, water, electric, soil movement, drugs, alcohol, and sex.

Sounds better than my life in London

>>10306289
>All dat projection

>>10306289
/thread

>>10305786
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc1lGoEVffJmXTrtd6GCn_A

>>10303843
>Prove me wrong

they'd have to wait for the next launch window.

>>10303843
>Prove me wrong
You don't think there might be training and psychological examinations as well as sunk costs involved with emigrating to another planet that might weed out the quitters?

>>10307991
kek

>>10303843
How would we set up an internet connection to Earth?

>>10303843
>Autists
>Passing up the opportunity to get paid for being alone/together with other autists

Massive underestimation.

>>10303843
hey, if i have internet im fine.
dont care how bad the lag is, i could wait 8 minutes for a video to load, or a webpage.
thats really my only stipulation about any situation; i need internet access so that i can read and debate.
without muh books and muh wikipedia as well as other info sites, i'd jump off a bridge.

>>10309536
>>10309544
>Martian joins the server
>Has better ping than the server Australian
Every time

>>10309536
theoretically you should be able to set up a satelite around the sun that could reliably/constantly connect to a satelite in a high earth orbit (north pole to south pole), this connecting to a satelite in geosynced orbit above mars

since we would use radio waves, it would take anywhere from 8 minutes to 9 minutes, depending on orbits, to reach the sun satellite, and the time for the sun satellite to reach mars could be anywhere between 12-13 minutes.
so you're looking at the request for information to take about 20 minutes, and the receiving of information to take about 20 minutes.
i'm sure ive overthought this, as you dont need this system, but for 100% reliable easy shit, this would work.

when the earth and mars are at their closest, in their orbits, it'd take about 3 minutes to receive data by just transmitting to the satellite above earth, or the one above mars.
at their farthest distance from each other, about twenty minutes.

Y'all niggas forgetting that there will be no internet. That means 99.99999% of the pop won't go, not without their instagram followers.

The flight won't happen anyways, because no black people are gonna take a "space cruise" and voluntarily live in prison like conditions.

Once that happens, there will protests about how raysis the flight is and it'll be cancelled.

I have been a neet for like at least 6 years now. Being in complete isolation is basically my fucking element. Steady supply of food and water and basically everyone else would be going mad while im meditating in a corner like the fucking Buddha

>>10309575
there'd be internet, it'd just be worse than dialup
though i think you could launch a shit ton of data at once, like ten terabytes of data.
its just a matter of lag.

>>10304052
Except that there will be little free time and lots of scrutiny. You will be broadcasted to billions of people daily, everyone will want to know exactly what you are doing at any given moment.

>>10309587
are they going to launch the space jews to stop you?
once you're there, you could really do alot, given you dont push your fellow martians too far.

I think the actual most important thing would be to bring a vast library of educational books both in physical and digital form.
Music too.

I think to be a pioneer you have to have some sort of specific mindset. I think people without religion or some sort of philosophy will be the first to go mad.

I think if that pic is evan plausible you will spend most of your day doing back breaking work to build larger domed cities, testing the martian surface for science, and figuring out a way to terraform the place

>>10309614
probably
i think, and i realize i could be wrong, that mars will be a place for minority ideas, peoples, and religions to try to reassert themselves.
there is no space on earth for a land that speaks latin; all the land is already taken and it makes far more sense to speak whatever language already exists

but mars? it has no convenience to any culture or language.

i secretly hope the U.N, or the colonists themselves, decide to revive dead cultures and languages on mars;
>second rome
>native american languages
>etc
of course its a longshot, but wouldn't it be incredible?

>>10309622
you sound like a weird autist.

Most likely everyone will be some sort of individualist scientist type and there wont be any prevailing ideology that unites them.

Possibly, English will most likely be the lingua franca

>>10309575
>>10309584
space colonization will just mean return of message board cultures on the net due to slowness of connection

>>10309632
you won't experience in your lifetime anyway so don't worry

>>10309631
now i know my ideas of a second rome is far off, but the ideology part is almost certain.
its just common historical fact that new ideas and concepts arise in colonies.

sure, its expensive so perhaps at first only those smart elite who can afford it and justify their presence would make the trip
but the elite are susceptible to new and radical ideas; would it be too surprising that a bunch of our elite, surrounded by themselves, would embrace different ideas than that of our earth, which governs all, not just the elite.
to institute the news ideas on earth is far harder, you have to convince entrenched people, entrenched cultures, entrenched religion, the average man, etc.
but in a colony it is much easier; there are few or no institutions entrenched.
we could see some elites with extreme views, such as john mccafe, go to mars with fellow like minded elites to try out their ideas of a new society.

>>interact with very few people

You will not be interacting with very few people, the space will be small and cramped.

>most free

Kek

>>10309731
Meant for
>>10304052

>>10309631
>Most likely everyone will be some sort of individualist scientist type and there wont be any prevailing ideology that unites them.

Doubt it, life on Mars would be relatively poor, extremely busy and would lack almost all the things we take for granted (like personal space).

It takes a certain kind of crazy to move permanently there.

Scientists will probably live there for a few years, then return to Earth.

>>10304948
>You think rights are real kid? Heh, nothing personal

>>10309746
>the first colony HAS to be a shoebox
No, fuck off
They indend to bring a fuckton of supplies and industrial mining equipment
It will be cramped for a month at best

>>10309575
>assuming 99.99999% of the population has internet

>colonize mars
>when you've got pitch black year long duststorms that blow away people like a tornado on steroids
haha nope

>>10309801

You understand the cost of lifting things into space? Then bringing them back down to Mars? They're getting the bare minimum and nothing more. If your "room" isn't part of critical infrastructure, the drill is needed for something else.

Maybe in 200 years there'd be enough of a civilization to afford leisure stuff like personal space, but until then you're living in a shoebox.

>>10309791

He's right though.

the first people sent to mars will most likely die and we will send a probe to learn why they died, its probably gonna go like that for a while until the technology is refined

>>10309644
I've already experienced message board culture on the net.

>>10310241

>>10303843
Literally the only reason I would refuse is a loss of regular meat consumption.

I don't want to be a vegetarian, and the bug eating meme is disgusting and stupid; the way you entice people to colonize a place is by making it seem desirable, not by forcing them to do things that sicken them.

Medicine and a Bowflex should take care of the bone/muscle loss.

>>10309820
>it's another "retard doesn't comprehend how long 200 years is" episode

>>10309811
>that blow away people like a tornado on steroids
>t. Redditors that just finished watching his favourite Reddit movie "The Martian" and thinks that this is how it actually works

>>10309575
It's not even that slow. Ok so there will be an extra half hour at the worst before you get any replies to your spicy meme. Just stick to slow boards like /out/, /diy/ and /ck/

>>10311150
Just bring an entire brf loaded with chickens. One advantage - chickens can fly in mars gravity so they will probably be much happier chickens than on earth and will not mind you stealing their eggs and eating them sometimes.

>>10311255
>it's another "retard doesn't comprehend how short 200 years is" episode

>>10303843
Na. I want 10 sex slaves then I can live there forever

>>10311517
>200 years from the steam engine and gas lighting to nuclear energy and spaceflight
>hurr 200 years is short durrr I'm fucking retarded

>>10303843
Do you think they would last as long a the retards on /pol/ talking about starting an "ethnostate" on the east coast of greenland. If you discount travel distance I'd say it would be a push.

>>10311579
>to nuclear energy and spaceflight
We're about 100 years from both of those becoming things. Progress can be damn slow.

>>10311589
0/10

>>10311579
yes, retards like you thought we would have moon bases by 2000. fact is, right now the cost benefit situation for extraterrestrial bases is like 1000:1

>>10311595
>don't wike it
>must be twoll
Grow up and face reality, we've had spaceflight for decades and we're not on Mars. Why?

>>10311646
because it's absolutely retarded and marsfags are delusional.
we could, but it would be an immense stupid effort for nothing

>>10311646
Oh so we do have spaceflight now?

>>10311652
When did that start?

>>10311653
>Grow up and face reality, we've had spaceflight for decades

This is such a shit troll

>>10311653
>>10311652
>>10311589
Oh wait I see, I'll reword: those technologies were first developed around a century ago. So >>10311579 is bs because while it's really less time between those things, we haven't seen significant development in the way some people would hope in decades and decades. 100 years is a short time and a long time.

>>10311659
No shit when pork barrel contractors have exclusive contracts it disincentives development.

>>10311664
Pork barreling was much more of a thing when they were developing space flight and nuclear power anon. That is not the problem.

>>10311667
Your post makes no fucking sense.

>>10311668
We'd all have flying nuclear cars by now if it weren't for gubmint right?

>>10311672
OK bud

>>10311678
>I don't have counterarguments so I'm just gonna say you're stupid
he's right, you know

>>10304052
imagine if the engines came on just as that spacesuit was passing by.

>>10311783
OK bud.

>>10304039
Stupid hippie faggot.

>>10304503
The Mudslime Pope guild literally made going to Mars haram a few years ago.

>>10309631
Hebrew was actually a dead language before Zionist joos made it the national language of Israel.

>>10313761
Well that's convenient
The perpetual nuisance will no longer be once we leave the earth

>>10304039
>It's physically and mentally impossible for people to be isolated away from nature in such way.
Most city dwellers live that way already

>>10303843
>>The vast majority of Mars colonization autists would return back to earth after spending a week on Mars and the few remaining will be the god tier of humanity and they will found a new civilization better than any that came before it because they'll have the foresight to leave the bullshit on Earth.

Fix'd

>>10305312
>HURR DERP! I CAN DIAGNOSE SOMEONE'S SUITABILITY THROUGH A COMPUTER MONITOR!!!!1111oneone

>>10303852
/thread

>>10304039
Fuck off back to redddit.

>>10305312
>says the autistic sperglord

>>10314381

This. So long as they have a desk to work at, a nightclub and a TV most normies wouldn't even know the difference between Earth and Mars. That however wouldn't stop them sending back selfies of themselves saying shit like "its soooo beautiful here!!! :) "

>>10305757

This is where you tards become so laughable.

Yeah colonize mars, underground, in tunnels bro!

Just so immensely retarded. There is absolutely no point to any colonization of mars. Go on, name one good reason for colonizing mars. Protip. There are none.

>>10306289

You forgot to add: Ignorant autards who have no conception of reality and live in some fantasy world.

But you know, in some respects, if we were to ignore the huge expenses, shipping all the autards off to mars would at least improve the average IQ and productivity of Earth.

I wonder what compels this guy to shit up every single space/mars/rocket thread?

>>10303843
Colonizing Mars is a meme.
There is no economic benefit.
No matter how bad things get on Earth, it will always be easier to build a habitat here than on Mars.

>>10314680
>no economic benefit
Money is a meme.

>>10314680
>No matter how bad things get on Earth, it will always be easier to build a habitat here than on Mars.
Wrong

>>10314708
Lol no, that's exactly what is true and the reason nobody really gives a fuck about colonizing space despite us having the technology to do it since 60 years.

The only way to kickstart space age is scanning near earth asteroids for mineability. Everything else is a meme, especially Mars.

>>10314720
Nope

>>10314680
>explode earth
>mars is intact
you’re welcome, stupid

>>10313105
Would be a good death, you would just blink out of existence in a moment with no way to reminisce about your life or existence. Just like how you suddenly came from nothing you would return to it

>>10309632
Only outside of your immediate area.
You'll have marsnet connected with all the other mars colonies.
Keep the most popular youtube videos constantly updating, and anything else that your colonist tend to show an interest in. Maintain an abridged Wikipedia or something.
I can't imagine bandwidth would be a problem if you have a ground based broadcast station and a network of satellites to earth.