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[Trogdor1123]

Only one third of Earth. Not enough to keep healthy and will likely have some sort of impact on fetal development.

I read about the concerns around that. It's rather interesting. It might take generations for the "mars" traits to come forward. The mortality rate would be high the first few generations

 

[jason10mm]

I've been hearing that sense 1990...

I wonder what will happen first:

First person on Mars
Winds of Winter Releases
The Doors of Stone Releases
Star Citizen Releases

Winds of Winter is just going to trail off into a hundred pages of "................................................" to represent the heat death of the ASOIAF universe

 

[Ballthyrm]

I doubt we will be able to colonize solar system before current civilization dies (Expanse style)...

There is a lot of hints that it can happen pretty quickly.
I think the biggest obstacle is getting out of the gravity well and it's being solved right now.

I expect Starship will fly regularly to space in the next decade.
It is quite close to the aviation sector after WW1. Loads of rich people in barely flyable planes.

Colonization will take a while because we will not need people up there for a while for stuff we can do with robots.
After a while we should get basic factories up there and that's when it will start to take off. When the value of building in space is higher than bringing rare metals or rare In space manufacturing down.

If I had to give an optimistic timeline :
- 2030s - Back on the moon - Private space station - Very High value manufacturing (medecine, etc)
- 2040s - One shot First steps on Mars - High value manufacturing (Fiber optics, Chips) -
- 2050s - Robot Space Mining for refueling - Commercial space flight for high earners
- 2060s - Space Mining for high value metals - Science station on Mars
- 2070s - Commercial space flight for average earners
- 2080s - Commercial space Holidays for average earners - Small commercial Holiday station on the moon
- 2090s - Space Mining for low value metals - Low value manufacturing (Steel)
- 2100s - Small commercial Holiday station on Mars
- 2110s - Start of run-away Colonisation of Space.

 

[Plies]

bro i thought we were talking about cooking steaks

It's all tied together.
Look:

1 - We need heat to cook steaks.
2 - If the universe suffers heat death, we will no longer be able to cook steaks.

You see, this a real issue we must solve!

 

[Rentahamster]

 

[Trogdor1123]

It's all tied together.
Look:

1 - We need heat to cook steaks.
2 - If the universe suffers heat death, we will no longer be able to cook steaks.

You see, this a real issue we must solve!

I am officially hit with your knowledge…

 

[Trilobit]

We're only a decade away from colonizing Mars.

Imagine being able to visit Mars. I really hope it becomes so cheap and commonplace that I'll be able to take a last trip there in my life.

 

[rm082e]

Not exactly what you asked for, but if you haven't heard about the idea of "Starlifting", check this out:



TL;DW: The math tells us we could build some giant lasers and knock material off the surface of the sun. If we did this in a calculated way, we could extend the life of the Sun, with it's current luminosity (i.e. no major environmental changes for Earth caused by the aging of the Sun) out to about 20 Billion years. That would give us plenty of time to establish colonies around other stars.

 

[Dr.D00p]

Imagine being able to visit Mars. I really hope it becomes so cheap and commonplace that I'll be able to take a last trip there in my life.

It's never going to be cheap to travel the solar system until we have small fusion engines with constant low G acceleration.

It's fascinating and mind blowing to know that when you apply a constant acceleration of something like 0.25G means you can go from walking pace to millions of KPH within 24hrs.

..and that is many decades away from being an engineering reality.

 

[HRK69]

I've always been fascinated by the theory that, in principle, everything in the universe is traceable. That every particle, every movement, every interaction leaves behind some imprint, no matter how subtle

So if you burned a book, theoretically, it wouldn't be lost forever. You could analyze the ash, the smoke, the heat released, and even the changes in the surrounding air molecules. In theory, you could reconstruct the pages

It's a faint hope, that somewhere, a billion years from now, someone might piece me back together and bring me to life

 

[nkarafo]

If humanity survives long enough for our Sun's death to actually threaten us... we won't need to save it. We will already be able to colonize other solar systems or even have massive spaceships to live in without needing a planet at all.

 

[Rentahamster]

bring me to life

That was quite a thoughtful paragraph to smuggle in an Evanescence reference.