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If you could be a colonist on Mars, would you be willing to endure a year of traveling through interplanetary space?
Yes 42%  42%  [ 5 ]
Maybe yes 17%  17%  [ 2 ]
Maybe no 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
No 42%  42%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 12

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21 Dec 2011, 6:13 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Ambivalence wrote:
Wot, no VASIMR?


VASIMR wasn't being developed when Zubrin developed Mars Direct, it's just using chemical rockets. It could still have worked even with less advanced technology. We could have been starting the colonization of Mars back in the 70's even.


With a hefty dose of luck, yeah. :)


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21 Dec 2011, 6:28 pm

No, the lack of normal daylight is too depressing. What is different about Earth that it has sunny blue-skied daylight? The atmosphere?



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21 Dec 2011, 6:45 pm

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No, the lack of normal daylight is too depressing. What is different about Earth that it has sunny blue-skied daylight? The atmosphere?


Yeah, so what though? I'd be willing to give up the walking outdoors without an EVA suit and the blue sky and trade it for a new world with a red sky and lots of land to build upon and work to build for my family, plant and harvest food for my family. So what if it doesn't have an atmosphere? Most of the planets are completely uninhabitable, but Mars is technologically habitable and that's cool with me.