One Way trip to mars?

[RKromwell]

Without, she would not come along until many years later.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Then the answer is no.

[Kelven]

This would be a lot like touring with the Army/Navy/Marines for the rest of your life, on another planet full of nothing. I'll pass.

[fuji]

Shouldn't we be concentrating our efforts on making a warp one engine first?

[Omnimorph]

Well as soon as we discover the dormant alien technology on mars and find the mass effect relay on the outskirts of our solar system, we'll be Golden... except for the first contact war... damn turians.

[Kava]

LOL Omni. Ahh Mass Effect... number 3, please hurry.

[mgellan]

Read "The Case for Mars" - we can manufacture return propellant right on the surface using gaslight era technology, so there's no reason why it should be a one way trip.

Regards,
Mg

[Jarnin]

Originally Posted by fuji [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Shouldn't we be concentrating our efforts on making a warp one engine first?

Warp drive isn't going to happen for a long, long time. The amount of energy required to warp spacetime is so great that we'd be better off using that energy to make things better right here in our solar system. That means making places like Luna, Mars, and the big moons of Jupiter and Saturn a bit more friendly to life as we know it; we might not be able to make them exactly like Earth, but we can get them to the point where people can live out their lives.

All our dreams of FTL space travel are at least a thousand years off. Better get comfortable with that idea.

[jyaku]

Jarnin there is still hopes of a friendly encounter with a advanced alien species to teach us the secrets of FTL travel.

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Jarnin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Warp drive isn't going to happen for a long, long time. The amount of energy required to warp spacetime is so great that we'd be better off using that energy to make things better right here in our solar system. That means making places like Luna, Mars, and the big moons of Jupiter and Saturn a bit more friendly to life as we know it; we might not be able to make them exactly like Earth, but we can get them to the point where people can live out their lives.

All our dreams of FTL space travel are at least a thousand years off. Better get comfortable with that idea.

lol
In a thousand years, we'll have magic, apparently.
From your link:
"A bubble macroscopically large enough to enclose a ship 200 meters across would require a total amount of exotic matter equal to 10 billion times the mass of the observable universe."
lol