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Humans on Mars by 2026?
Topic Started: Jun 19 2014, 10:34 PM (194 Views)
CJ
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A very minor case of serious brain damage

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2014/06/18/elon-musk-aims-for-humans-on-mars-by-2026/

That phrase about “aiming for the stars” seems less like hyperbole when the discussion has to do with Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors who is more like Tony Stark than an ordinary CEO. Musk has a tendency of accomplishing unprecedented goals like commercializing space travel, solar power and electric cars, so when he says with a straight face that humans could set foot on Mars as soon as 2024, he may be one of the only people on Earth who can be taken seriously when making such a prediction.

“I’m hopeful that the first people can be taken to Mars in 10-12 years,” Musk said on CNBC this week. “I think it’s certainly possible for that to occur.”

But just getting to the red planet is not nearly enough for Musk, who says it’s more important to have “a self-sustaining city on Mars, to make life multi-planetary.”



Well, this is ambitious! What chance does he have of making it?
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Zero Revolution
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I wonder if this will actually happen then, or if it's just a slight possibility. I mean, who knows when a spaceship allowing for it will be available for use, or if we can even get that far, or etc.
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CJ
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There are still some obstacles, one of which is that we don't have a way to land humans there safely.

The problem is that Mars's atmosphere is too thin to use parachutes to slow a landing craft large enough to carry humans, but too thick to use a system like that used on the lunar module (which would create too much turbulence).
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