The Moon or Mars?

[Keanumoreira]

"..all of its gases, water, and other liquids never left the planet, they were just locked underground in ice sheets"

 

The atmosphere is believed to have gone because Mars gravity isn't strong enough to hold it against the solar wind. It isn't there any more.

 

 

Um, no, everything is still there, it's just locked under the ice. Maybe not the gases, but the liquids are. They can never leave the planet due to Gravitational activity.

 

"...burn carbon dioxide which is what we do everyday."

 

You can't burn carbon dioxide -- it's a combustion product.

 

 

Well, if you want to get scientific about it, then ok, you can't burn carbon dioxide. It was an expression; the buring of carbon dioxide simply means to release it into the atmosphere by way of combustion. Everyone in their right mind knows you can't burn CO2. >_>

Edited November 30, 2010 by Keanumoreira

[TheSwedishPancake]

I'm gonna have to go with Mars on this one. Sure, it would be ridiculously cold, but I like desert landscapes a lot. It would be great fun to just take a walk and explore the planet. I would go so far as to say that I think some of the sights there would be more worth seeing than anywhere on Earth, but that's probably just my desert-lover instinct talking.

[Keanumoreira]

LOL, no one chose the moon. How embarrassing for something that is part of our daily lives. :laugh: Edited December 1, 2010 by Keanumoreira

[TheSwedishPancake]

LOL, no one chose the moon. How embarrassing for something that is part of our daily lives. :laugh:

Whoa, I just noticed that. Weird.

 

Gotta admit, though. The moon isn't really that cool. It's just got big holes everywhere. And it's just and endless expanse of gray. Not really most people's idea of a good time.

[JohannesGunn]

LOL, no one chose the moon. How embarrassing for something that is part of our daily lives. :laugh:

Whoa, I just noticed that. Weird.

 

Gotta admit, though. The moon isn't really that cool. It's just got big holes everywhere. And it's just and endless expanse of gray. Not really most people's idea of a good time.

Yeah, not exactly prime real estate. But it does have lots and lots of titanium...

Also, one of the moons of Jupiter would probably work as an outsystem base, but you'd need some REALLY good radiation shielding.

Edited December 1, 2010 by JohannesGunn

[Keanumoreira]

LOL, no one chose the moon. How embarrassing for something that is part of our daily lives. :laugh:

Whoa, I just noticed that. Weird.

 

Gotta admit, though. The moon isn't really that cool. It's just got big holes everywhere. And it's just and endless expanse of gray. Not really most people's idea of a good time.

Yeah, not exactly prime real estate. But it does have lots and lots of titanium...

Also, one of the moons of Jupiter would probably work as an outsystem base, but you'd need some REALLY good radiation shielding.

 

Definetly Europa.

 

Jupiters pulling and tugging on it causes friction at its icy core, which forces heated steam out into the vastness of space here and there. This suggests that life may exist in a liquid ocean on this moon. If so, we should start there.

Edited December 1, 2010 by Keanumoreira

[AliasTheory]

Definetly Europa.

 

Jupiters pulling and tugging on the causes friction at its icy core, which forces heated steam out into the vastness of space here and there. This suggests that life may exist in a liquid ocean on this moon. If so, we should start there.

Just because life can exist on Europa doesn't mean we should be begin colonization here, although probably a good place to start. Water is a bigger factor here.

 

Are we going to start talking about how to get there now? We would need something like space-time distortion to close the gap, movement by solar winds or a miracle hyperdrive ripped straight out of a sci-fi movie.

 

Or use gravitational slingshots.

Edited December 1, 2010 by AliasTheory

[roquefort]

Elton John has actually noted that;

 

Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids

In fact it’s cold as hell

And there’s no one there to raise them if you did..

[Keanumoreira]

Definetly Europa.

 

Jupiters pulling and tugging on the causes friction at its icy core, which forces heated steam out into the vastness of space here and there. This suggests that life may exist in a liquid ocean on this moon. If so, we should start there.

Just because life can exist on Europa doesn't mean we should be begin colonization here, although probably a good place to start. Water is a bigger factor here.

 

Are we going to start talking about how to get there now? We would need something like space-time distortion to close the gap, movement by solar winds or a miracle hyperdrive ripped straight out of a sci-fi movie.

 

Or use gravitational slingshots.

 

For the search for life, yes. Mars is a very unpopular canidate for the journey of alien life at the moment. Europa would seem a more logical choice than some dusty, red iron, desert world.

[JohannesGunn]

Not to mention that if there's water, you can make oxygen and fuel. Also, ice turns out to be a very good insulator, and all you need to carve it out is heat.