Looks a lot some places on the third rock from the sun.
If it was yours, I'd like to have heard a little more about your trip...
Hey! That's mine! Could be Utah, or Arizona, or New Mexico, or...But a little short on air for those places! Looks like a cell phone shot!!
Layered rock, on an angle, but no water and not seismic...hmm.
If you look really hard you can see Elon Musk sitting on a boulder.
kpmac wrote:
If you look really hard you can see Elon Musk sitting on a boulder.
I noticed that too, Ken. He's so rich and powerful he doesn't even need a pressure suit or air supply! Must be nice!!
Yup Elon Musk and others can see us colonizing Mars in the future. I think not. The Martian atmosphere will not support life as we know it -- 95% CO2, 0.16% oxygen, and 0.06% CO. Earth animals would have permanent hypoxia and brain damage at those levels of Oxygen, and those levels of CO2 would be extremely toxic to humans. Plus there is no water. Why would any sane person think of colonizing that planet ???
Hereford wrote:
Yup Elon Musk and others can see us colonizing Mars in the future. I think not. The Martian atmosphere will not support life as we know it -- 95% CO2, 0.16% oxygen, and 0.06% CO. Earth animals would have permanent hypoxia and brain damage at those levels of Oxygen, and those levels of CO2 would be extremely toxic to humans. Plus there is no water. Why would any sane person think of colonizing that planet ???
Well, they're talking about terraforming. It's theoretically possible but it would take generations to make Mars habitable for Humans. There is water available underground, probably a lot of it! Locating it and making it available for use would probably be the highest priority.
In the mean time, they could live in dome habitats and underground. I don't think they would be having a lot of fun but they could sign up for a five year stint and do some serious science. They could always come back to Earth and spend all the Musk bucks they would earn!
As difficult as it sounds, it would be easier and cheaper than colonizing some Earth-like world light years away. I think both are feasible given enough time and money!
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