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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.04.29 17:35:00 -
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Like Kryxtal stated, Mars-One has been around for quite some time and has been a subject of discussion multiple times in OOPE. Their approach is basically sending small groups of people on a one way trip to the planet to basically live in a couple of pods that are about as akin to 2 camp trailers welded together. Oh, and they'll be part of a reality show for the rest of their lives as well.
Personally I'm more akin to Space-X's approach, partially because they have an idea that is almost identical to a design my group made for our Capstone. The CEO wants to launch rockets to the planet first that will deploy a solar power biodome, which in theory will give astronauts not only more walking room but the ability to actually grow crops in Martian soil.
In our capstone, along with creating our own Biodome rocket we also created a orbiting space craft that would be capable of making multiple trips between Earth and Mars to ferry supplies and crew. We came up with the MTM. It's designed so that once it reaches it's destination it would launch 3 cargo containers from it's underbelly that consist of a main habitat (air tight inflatable structures would attach to it afterwards), a rover and communications array, and a supply bin. After that all drops the crew leave in 2 Apollo like lunar modules which they can use to return to the MTM at a later time.
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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.04.29 21:02:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Nometh Xergent wrote:Random McNally wrote:Waiting for the "send us one million dollars to save your spot...." line. A million dollars or not, what do you think about it? I probably wouldn't do it just because this is a private thing not looking for the best people so it's going to end in disaster
You have an issue with launching incompetent people off the planet? On a no return flight?
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Micheal Dietrich
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Posted - 2013.05.02 18:46:00 -
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Reaver Glitterstim wrote:That you find the idea of staying scary is what I find scary.
If only I were younger, or if the people I knew actually cared about this. Oh I would so be trying to get into that. Sadly, I have too much invested on Earth to leave permanently.
There's no such thing as too much invested to leave permanently if you really want it that bad.
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