/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2371092]

Alright, men of science, how close are we to the promises of yore; where men can fly in hover-cars, Mars is a tranquil terraformed planet of paradise, and virtual reality lets you escape to a world of wonderment all your own?

[pascal !n5Z3VuZapw No.2371118]

>asks men of science
>about feats of engineering
third thing might certainly be in the works, but the first two are stupid anyway
also, pascal

[Anonymous No.2371112]

never

[Anonymous No.2371129]

all of them a ridiculously unnecessary and thus will never be funded

[снайпер No.2371132]

>hovercar

Check

[снайпер No.2371138]

>hovercar

Check

[pascal !n5Z3VuZapw No.2371143]

>>2371118
You don't like the idea of hover cars?

[Anonymous No.2371144]

First find a way to pass through the Van Allen radiation belt.

After you accomplish that we can talk about the new McDonalds on Mars.

K?

[снайпер No.2371145]

>Virtual Reality

Check

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.2371147]

For everyone?
28 years, 8 months and 3 days away.

Individual technologies?
http://www.moller.com/
http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2030-2039.htm#full_immersion_virtual_reality

As for Mars, there will need to be a few technologies developed for terraforming it. One such proposal is heating it by shining extra light on the poles via giant orbital mirrors, which will require AI, space-faring droids that can rocket around, fitted with the ability to disassemble Phobos into the reflective material required (molecular assemblers). According to Wikipedia, raising the temperature of Mars by a few degrees Celsius would cause enough CO2 sublimation to raise the air presure to 300 millibars, which would mean humans would no longer requiire a pressure suit and it would be comparable to the pressure at the summit of Mt. Everest. Because the atmosphere would be CO2, this would cause more warming and more gas would be added to the atmosphere. Now there needs to be the technology to institute a planetary magnetic field around 50% as powerful as Earth's (as Mars receives about 50% of the sunlight that Earth does) as well as creating an ozone layer.
After this is completed plants can be spread across the entire globe and the oxygenation of the Martian atmosphere can begin.

[Anonymous No.2371152]

The science is there...
>>2371092
... it's the capitalism that holds the species back.

[снайпер No.2371156]

>Terraformed Mars

Che - no wait, still working on that one.

Well, two out of three ain't bad.

[Anonymous No.2371165]

>>2371152
meant to point at
>>2371129

[Christian Scientist No.2371177]

Can you make water and nature appear on Mars?

[Anonymous No.2371184]

>>2371177
Troll attempt ?
Weak troll is weak :(

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.2371185]

>>2371177
See
>>2371147

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Hydrology
>Liquid water cannot exist on the surface of Mars due to its low atmospheric pressure, except at the lowest elevations for short periods.[44][45] 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]

[Anonymous No.2371179]

>>2371177
I think this guy said it best.
>>2371147

[Anonymous No.2371204]

>>2371185

You got a wiki link about how to start up the planets core?

[снайпер No.2371213]

>>2371204
Oh that's easy.

Smash it into Venus.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.2371215]

>>2371204
I think that will be impossible for hundreds if not thousands of years unless we find some way of steering Ceres into Mars, but that would ruin Mars' potential for a life-sustaining planet.
An artificial planetary magnetic field is sufficient, powered by orbiting space-based solar and backup fusion power plants.

[Anonymous No.2371240]

>>2371185

Why did the planets water mass on the poles?

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.2371247]

>>2371240
Permanent cold temperatures, probably. At the equator liquid water actually exists for a couple hours a day in the summer, and sometimes it gets just a little too warm and evaporates. Add this over three billion years. it's quite possible there's massive ice deposits deeper down.

[Anonymous No.2371251]

>>2371240

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.2371286]

Bump for interesting thread

[Anonymous No.2371289]

>>2371147
Wow. That's pretty fucking sweet.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.2371307]

>>2371289
I hope to be on the team to terraform and populate Mars.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.2371383]

bump

[Anonymous No.2371387]

At least two more centuries.

[Anonymous No.2371392]

>>2371387
>Mars is a tranquil terraformed planet of paradise
Nevermind, make that another millenium from now. At least.