The story is here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110111/cm_ac/7586394_400_volunteer_to_become_mars_colonists
400 people would get to volunteer to take a one way trip to mars. ONE WAY. From what I've read, it's going to be a private funding so the volunteers could be anyone or one who has the pocket book to go on this trip.
What would it be like? the space, the adventure of a lifetime. The unexplored frontier that no human has ever embarked upon before.
Yet there is the looming doom that overshadows the whole expedition itself. What if it doesn't work out? something breaks or fails while in space. What if supplies ran out during the so many years required to travel to Mars?
The colony did not have enough equipment to create the oxygen needed on the red planet.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110111/cm_ac/7586394_400_volunteer_to_become_mars_colonists
400 people would get to volunteer to take a one way trip to mars. ONE WAY. From what I've read, it's going to be a private funding so the volunteers could be anyone or one who has the pocket book to go on this trip.
What would it be like? the space, the adventure of a lifetime. The unexplored frontier that no human has ever embarked upon before.
Yet there is the looming doom that overshadows the whole expedition itself. What if it doesn't work out? something breaks or fails while in space. What if supplies ran out during the so many years required to travel to Mars?
The colony did not have enough equipment to create the oxygen needed on the red planet.
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Being shot out into space, that's what'd happen on that lil video there. Which basically is the same thing on Mars since it's atmosphere is about the same as our atmosphere is at around 200,000 feet, although with a different composition. Aside from the fact that there's no way to send supplies to Mars for months at a time, it's no different than being on the space station.
Noteworthy is that there's no way for people to send us supplies here on earth. What we got is what we got. It's the same for mars. But that's a whole other planet too so there's no reason to think that oxygen, nitrogen, aluminum, iron, or anything else that we'd have here isn't there too. The problem isn't the materials, it's the infrastructure. As long as you have energy, you can break any and all things apart into their individual elements.