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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.29 19:42:00 -
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Everyone expected the mighty United States, the upstart Peoples Republic of the enigmatic Russian Federation to be first to mars.
Noone expected the return of the Nederlands-koloniale Rijk 
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
3165
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Posted - 2013.04.29 21:41:00 -
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Micheal Dietrich wrote:
You have an issue with launching incompetent people off the planet? On a no return flight?
Mayflower turned out quite well in the long term from some perspectives.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
3165
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Posted - 2013.04.29 22:51:00 -
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Kitty Bear wrote:There should be good mining opportunities there, which is probably the only way your going to interest private (aka venture capital) investment in a long term manner.
I'm not really sure how colonisable mars is as a long term venture, the lack of a magnetic field and significant atmosphere pose high risks to long term habitation.
Mining mars would require lifting material outside of its gravity well. Getting fuel there would be like marching in the desert, for a fraction if the logistics and capital you can strip mine asteroids. Unless theres a particular material on Mars we cant get economically from Earth/Moon or the Asteroids there's little reason to go there beyond science.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
3168
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Posted - 2013.04.30 01:46:00 -
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Kitty Bear wrote:That's the primary reason for the Orbiters and rovers out there atm. Gathering intel and mineral composition data. Don't forget Mars isn't very big, which means it has a lower escape velocity. A mass driver could be a feasible payload launch system. There's interesting research currently on going into rocket tech, but it's still a fair trek out there atm.
Still colossal compared to a NEA. You can escape orbit of a NEA by walking too quickly, the energies involved are orders of magnitude less, and its easier to haul back as its closer to Earths gravitational well.
Planets are the endgame, but we've not even gotten the board setup yet, still reading the "how to walk on the moon" rulebook.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
3168
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Posted - 2013.04.30 01:47:00 -
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Suddenly duplicate posts. Thousands of them 
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
3168
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Posted - 2013.04.30 01:53:00 -
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World most likely to be actually colonised is Uranus. Lots of Helium 3, closest gas Giant we can realisticly tap for resources, Saturn and Jupiter are too massive for long term construction, and Jupiter's magnetic field is too overwhelming. Also the time delay, that's what would make it more likely to have humans on hand.
I'm hoping in my likely naive, still an Undergrad way that I will be able to get involved in asteroid mining. It will probably end up going to an office somewhere in a medium sized city and doing work on computers to order robots what to do. I've made peace with it, but that's the mundane reality I anticipate.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
4025
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Posted - 2013.05.02 23:18:00 -
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Michael Stabb wrote:
Indeed. If that were the case, the only people that would sign up for this would be homeless people.
Or glory hounds, explorers, bored adventurous people, for Queen and Country ect.
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