Science – From the article: "The project to design and build a European rover to send to Mars has passed an important milestone. Engineers have demonstrated a vented, or dead-beat, airbag technology that could be used to cushion the vehicle's landing on the Red Planet. An effective entry, descent and landing system will be critical to the success of the ExoMars mission, as it is known."
LOL, discarded beer can indeed. Hanyman, you're a riot. Why not go so far as to discover an ancient McDonald's restaurant?
:D
I'm in line to travel to Mars.
The real problem in the world is money.
Here he worried about economic callapse.
As if that would be the end of mankind.
Wrong that what they want you to think.
It would only mean the end of those who use money to control us in the first place.
Which would be a good thing! We don't need them.
News Flash :WE don't need money to survive.
Just one another,helping each other out without the need of money to do that.
We just have to organize ,work together.
Its profitable for the big corporatations to let this world go to ******.
It will be another way of squeezing the poor working class financually.
We will be the ones that gets the ******ty end of the deal.
The corporates will be laughing all the way to the bank.
That would be the true crime,if we just go alng with their ideas.
awesome stuff...hope to see a global space agency. would love to see a landing on mars. should probably be setting up a station on the moon first though, test out some low-g tech close to home. maybe create a shuttle route with solar sails fom luna to remis.
i shoulda been a sci fi writer, oh wait..
Make exploration of space a global endeavor,kind of a slap in the face to free enterprise,multiple companies chasing the same market creates innovation and lowered costs whereas a monopoly encourages stagnation and waste.A space race or a "friendly" competition leads to just the kind of creative thinking that we applaude from our friends across the ocean and we have seen the appreciation for our endeavors from everyone.I should think the free sharing of knowledge gained and to an extent unique resources like Hubble and the European space probes would be more palatable and profitable for all of mankind including poor nations unable to contribute so leave nations to slap themselves on the back and exploit the shared technologies and discoveries.
My what a waste of money and time.... millions of kids are starving... aids is killing millions... and we want to send a ship to Mars - what perfect waste of resources. What did we get from those billions spent sending some dudes to the moon? I would say Tang, but it turns out that existed before we even sent a dog to space so I truly can't think of a damn thing.
Take a look at the device you used to compose your message. Think about it.
actually computers were born before we ever considered space flight. Do a little research on the machine your using to read this and you'll see computer appear during WWII... lets see we didnt' even consider a moon landing until when? 20 years after the war. Nice try nccneon, but your historys off a bit.
Turns out a lot of myths surround what we got from the space program... Tang was one, as was computers and my favorite the velcro which some people seem to believe was a product of space travel... none of those great inventions were just lies from NASA to try and justify their spending.
Well, I know that!! But, they occupied ROOMS in WWII. It was the necessity to miniaturize the circuitry (and thereby the WEIGHT) for the space program that lead to ICs and then to microprocessors. ENIAC weighed 30 Tons! And, wasn't completed until the end of WWII if you wanna get specific.
Even in the 1960s most office computers occupied their own rooms, used punched cards and open reel tape and cost more than most houses.
Most people know Tang and velcro are not a product of the space program. You apparently do not know microcomputers ARE.
BTW, it wasn't NASA who put forth the Tang misconception, it was Tang's own advertisements.
What did we gain from the space race.
http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_spinoffs_0...
http://search.netscape.com/search/search?query=... technology spin offs&invocationType=net-home
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I'm pretty sure you wont.
Too many issues that can't be worked out with know science...
How do you block the radiation from frying the passengers on that long flight seems to be pretty hard one.
"How do you block the radiation from frying the passengers on that long flight "
With shielding.
Consider the amount of shieding it would take and the thickness of the lead and its just way to much to get up there. You would have to slowly build the ship while it was in orbit and considering the length of time it takes us to send a care package to the international space station I think we can safely assume that even if we used all future missions to build the mars ship - we would all be dead while they continued to send up shielding.
Shielding the shuttle or space station isn't as big a deal as a mars ship. The shuttle and space station is still give some protection by the earths magnetic field, a mars ship would not have that benefit.