Mars

Is the point that someday we have to leave this rock so we best get good at this.?

 

Wait til the 2022 lockdown due to the Mars variant.

 

I think

It’s in the hope of future colonisation but that might be too far fetched to be believed right at this moment.

they will study it over time to see if it is habitable but they will probably tell us something else.

 

Yeah that makes sense. It’s a subject I’ve never had any real interest in, so have never bothered to read much about it, apart from the history element and the space race etc.

 

I think they are looking for answers from the past, to know answers for the future. Ie was Mars a planet like Earth or did it hold some form life (due to the possibility of water), if it did, what happened, if it didn't why not....more questions than answers.

 

All this talk of space exploration has just reminded me of the recent George Clooney film - The Midnight Sky.

For anyone who hasn’t yet watched it, don’t ****ing bother, absolute dogshit.

 

The earth will die eventually, unless we speed it up too soon

So the long term future will be on another similar to Earth

 

The problem is that humans are a weak species, something that is clearly evident from covid, it takes but a simple virus to bring us down. Also our ability to travel is best described as prehistoric, within my lifetime, we've gone from landing on a rock called the moon, to landing a lump of metal on Mars, so at this evolutionary rate, things don't bode well. I think for life on another planet, we are going to have to travel beyond our solar system, and that ain't going to happen in the next couple of hundred years, unless its another lump of metal, which saves no one apart from a robot, but we can only but try and see where it takes us. If the universe decides to implode, then even the robot is fooked.

 

If and when we do leave Earth to colonise a planet in another Galaxy the Space ship will be piloted by robots and the humans will be in pods ready to be woken up at the end of the journey

 

Yeah, ok Doug.

Not happening mate, ever.

 

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Suppor...ting_astronauts_would_need_smaller_spacecraft

 

It won't be happening in the next few centuries that's for sure

But in the distant future

Look how far we have come in a hundred years

 

How do you know this?

 

We know the body has the capability of hibernating itself. An example would be of a skiing accident, I can't rememeber her name, but she fell in to an extremely cold lake. Now technically she could and should have been classed as dead, when she was eventually found, bobbing under the water! Thankfully she worked for a team of medical people, that knew about all this shhite. It took a very long time and a lot of experience to bring her back to life again. What it shows is if the body is dropped below a certain temperture it will hibernate to keep the core of the brain alive (I think, something like that anyway) - the process we have trouble with is bringing the body back to life again in any reasonable timescale and without harm. I can't remember the name of the woman to find a link to the story.

 

Just what I believe

 

Bit of a contradiction there duggie

Science is improving at an incredible rate and what we see as impossible today will be seen as normal in 10/20 years.

 

Frogs and even fish in desert areas can lay eggs that lie dormant until the rains flood the area

 

I wasn't going to fall into the trap of saying it will happen soon

 

Found it, this is the woman I was chatting about... https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/colinblackstock1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bågenholm