When you first consider the prospect of a mars colony, the first things that come to mind are only the positive outcomes. Only when you look deeper into this expidition do you start to see the enormous cost and extreme dangers associated with traveling to this planet. What people also fail to realize or comprehend are the political and socio-economic repercussions of furthering our advancement to colonizing the red planet. As a nation in this day and age, I do not think we should undergo a full scale colonization of mars. While this prospect is an optimistic and hopeful vision, we have issues that need to be resolved on our own planet before we start to inhabit another, lest the dilemmas of our homeworld should follow us to mars. The major proponent of the mars colonization program and the leading individual for aerospace engineering, Elon Musk, is an optimist about our current situation. Musk has envisioned what he calls the “Interplanetary Transport System” (ITS) as the vehicle that will transport people to Mars. The sheer cost of this endeavor is astronomical. And even if this project gets funded and built, who is going to pay for the colony on Mars? Will it be U.S. taxpayers or will it be privately funded by Elon Musk himself? In either case, Musk believes the cost of mars to decrease greatly, “But he offers neither sufficient technology improvements nor evidence of demand to add up to a $200,000 trip to Mars” (Pike 2).What he also fails to realize is that Moore’s law does not …show more content…
This could lead to potential infighting amongst the colonist, and without the support of Earth, they will have a hard time maintaining stability, even if they have advanced technology to help their colony prosper. In a perfect world, everyone would get along and cooperate. But humans are an emotional impulsive people, and hardly ever act on
Would you want to live on Mars? Some would say yes, others no, I am against going to Mars and think that we should stick to Earth and put our time, money, and energy into fixing this planet. I will show you all the reason why we can not go to that red planet.
Wasteful, useless, pointless – and many more colorful words have been used to describe the budget allotted to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States, NASA. You could almost make 24 stacks of one-dollar bills tall enough to reach space with the $17.5 billion that were budgeted this year alone. It’s a staggering amount at first glance I’ll admit, but there is so much more return in NASA’s work that many fail to see.
Headed by former NASA ‘Mars Czarr’ Orlando Figueroa, it will put together a framework for funding and planning smaller Mars missions beginning as early as 2018” (Reardon). NASA is fighting for this program and desperately wants to be funded. According to NASA this Mars mission is a top priority for them, and it shows by how hard they are trying to at least start the mission during this decade.
Elon Musk, NASA, and Nikola Tesla have all incorporated the first steps into the plans for colonizing Mars. Nikola Tesla let out his ideas to colonize mars and now Elon Musk and NASA are currently in the lead of many in the race to colonize this planet. There are ideas to colonize other planets but Mars and the moon are closest to our accomplishments. In 2011 a project was launched known as Mars One. The founders of this project, Bas Lansdorp and Arno Wielders, launched an official idea to send one hundred people to mars for a permanent vacation by the year 2020. Sarah Cruddas from the CNN website says, “The journey itself is expected to take around seven months and recent MIT studies found that, should explorers succeed in landing, using current technology they would likely survive only 68 days.” Crudas goes on explaining how the volunteers are ready to take on any risks for scientific purposes. Mars One is requiring the winning applicants years of training and isolation before being able to set foot on a spaceship that takes them to mars. Later in Febuary 27, of the year 2013 another idea based around moving to mars was proposed by Dennis Tito known as “Inspiration Mars.” The initial plan for “Inspiration Mars” was to send a couple into Mars. They require large funds that were never met and Inspiration mars was called off. The founders of project one had a backup plan known as “Plan B” which
NASA is a symbol of all things American, including the positive and the negative. NASA displays technical excellence, unflappable determination, and a sense of innovation that some could call uniquely American. NASA also shows a profound organizational malaise, an unwillingness to respond to new technologies, an inability to operate safely, and a bloated bureaucracy that refuses to stay on budget. NASA is quite simply, the best and worst of the United States, summed up in one organization.
In going along with this plan, there will be more demand for scientists and engineers alike. Engineers will build the manned bases and vessels, while scientists occupy them and gather data to benefit the world. In this way, NASA will be able to see if it is possible to make Mars the next “Earth”, making plans to help make that a reality if this does happen. “Through space exploration and innovative thinking, NASA has injected science and inspiration into our culture and projected us into the future” (Haberle).
One of the qualities of the human race is that humans love to explore and find new things, like how Christopher Columbus found America. With most of our planet documented now, where do we have to go? The answer is simply one of the only places we haven’t yet (or may never) explore all of: space. Wars may be waged over land on earth, as there isn’t any new land to find there. So, we can go into space where unexplored land can be conquered and colonized. And while it may not seem like it, in the near future, it may be possible to colonize humans in space.
“NASA Should Be about Space,” says that Obama has cut money off NASA, for Earth Science. Even though Earth Science has raised up to 63%, according to “NASA Should Be about Space,” NASA will have not enough money to send people to the moon or Mars. Since space has not controlled by anyone, really, the U.S should start to take into advance to complete mission no man has done back then. The state of Texas is willing to help fund NASA, and hope to find what is needed.
How would you feel if random people from another country came into yours and just completely took over and changed everything you had become accustomed too? In the mid-1800's Europeans took it upon themselves to colonize Africa. Since then, it is now 2030 and the US government is now debating whether or not to colonize struggling countries in South America. The US should not colonize these countries that are being considered struggling in South America because a sustainable lifestyle is able to obtain while living there that they do not need our "help" to survive. Also, a problem could arise between two countries or even multiple countries such as racism or even pollution during this colonization process.
With all the money required to travel to and live on another planet is we could end half of world hunger. Elon Musk even says "You can't create a self-sustaining city on Mars for $10 billion a person,"( http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-mars-colony-talk-iac-2016-9). This means that we would need more than 10 billion per person to live on mars. The amount of cash required is so tremendous that it would be nearly impossible to live on mars and not lose everything. Now, this is a reasonable complaint, if we don’t have the money we can’t do
Under a contract of $2.6 billion, SpaceX will continue to get the bulk of its money from NASA while continuing to develop their rockets. The competition is mostly European, with the two companies Arianespace, and International Launch services, have held a monopoly on space travel since the U.S. has removed itself from the industry in the 1980’s. As well as the current NASA contract, SpaceX has a $200 billion satellite industry with a 40-launch sequence set through the year 2018. SpaceX is currently headquartered in Hawthorne, California, and employs a total of 1,500 people. Its facility is an old factory that used to produce fuselage pieces for Boeing 747 airplanes. This is where parts for the Falcon 9 boosters, and the cone-shaped Dragon capsule that a year ago was the first commercial spacecraft to go into orbit and come back. What really makes this company shine are its prices: On the companys website it is advertised that Falcon 9 launch costs around $57 million, which adds up to a little less than $2,500 per pound to be put into orbit. As you can, that is quite a big difference than the $10,000 quote earlier stated. This year, Musk claims that the next rocket called, the Falcon Heavy, will try to lower to cost to just $1,000 per pound. Many observers may ask the question of how exactly the costs are driven down, but the secret is yet to be revealed. The company does not file patents as to protect itself from copycats like China who could use the technology for themselves. Currently the aim is to build huge rockets that are capable of multiple flights in out of earth to near planets, Mars in this case. But this asks the question, if SpaceX is working on this technology at a lower price, why is Congress forcing NASA to continue developing the less capable Space Launch System for much more? Space claims that it will develop a
SpaceX was founded in March of 2002 by multi billionaire Elon Musk. Musk and SpaceX's plan is to make humains multi-planetary. This may mean that the human race will be evolving and adapting on multiple planets. Such as, Earth, the planet most humans are on now and Mars, the 4th planet from the sun. Why mars, Mars has 25 hour days very similar to the earth's 24 hour days, Mars is also the only planet that is not too hot or cold. Mars has no o-zone, an o-zone protects the planet's surface from the sun’s radiation. This means the red planet’s surface is covered with radiation from the sun. But this will not stop Musk and his team. They have dreamed up domes that will protect us from the outside world on mars. He as also thought of a very ingenious
To say colonisation is realistic, we must first establish a reason for it. Capitalist nations such as the United States are notorious for only committing to such operations with the promise of a significant amount of money in return. With the Apollo missions, the reward was seen to be victory over the competing USSR. As the Earth is drained of natural resources such as fuels and more recently, water, mankind is to be stretched further to find materials to maintain its population. In September of 2009, NASA announced that it has discovered traces of water on the moon.
Sirens cast their spell, charmed we sailed through perilous seas to alien lands unknown. Centuries later they call again, but this time from uncharted worlds out among the stars. As dreams manifest to reality, the possibility of becoming a space-faring species looms just beyond the horizon. The concept of interstellar colonization will come to fruition in the very near future, beginning with the neighboring red planet. Mankind will greatly benefit from colonizing Mars because it will transcend conventional thinking and unite Earth as one people, provide access to unlimited sources of raw materials, and during an event of a global catastrophe preserve humanity.
Last night, Elon Musk unveiled plans in a speech given in Mexico City to start sending humans to Mars, thus making us an “multiplanetary species” by 2024. I understand that this is a big deal for many, but I mean really? Is this what we are turning to in today’s world where we are experiencing refugee crises, wars on unprecedented levels and scandals in the highest offices in the land? Let me start off by focusing on the financial implications of Musk’s venture. $200,000, according to Musk, would be enough for one interplanetary space ticket.