Mars colony: SpaceX rival wants to build permanent colonies on the red planet - TomoNews
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MARS — The race to Mars has begun. SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk has announced that the company will send people to the red planet by 2024 and that he would reveal plans for colonization in September, the Los Angeles Times reported. Meanwhile, a nonprofit group also aims to establish permanent Mars colonies, sending the first group of astronauts by 2026. After Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in our solar system. It has similar natural resources, a temperate climate and an adaptable gravitational pull on its surface. Mars One — a non profit foundation founded in 2011 with a team of ambassadors and advisors including an astronaut, Nobel Prize laureate and the former NASA Chief Technologist — has developed a mission plan to colonize Mars. Mars One has already selected six teams of four individuals. The first team will begin training next year, according to the Mars One website. In 2020, Mars One will launch a communications satellite to the red planet. Between 2022 and 2025, a series of rovers will land and assemble the habitats. The colony will have livable habitats, a life support unit and a communications system. The Living Unit will house an inflatable living section and an airlock used by astronauts when leaving the sealed, habitable settlement. The unit will include materials for the construction of rooms, floors and electrical outlets, and comes equipped with shower and kitchen areas. Additional units will arrive and be constructed as new teams join the colony. The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is rigged with extra technologies which capitalize on the natural resources available on Mars. Thin film solar photovoltaic panels will be included to generate electricity. The ECLSS will be equipped with heating units to boil and extract water from ice in the planet’s soil, according to the Mars One website. The ECLSS will be connected to the Living Unit through a tube which will feed nitrogen and argon gas, extracted from Mars’ atmosphere, into the habitable space as inert gases. Once the astronauts have landed, it will also be in charge of the water purification and removal of waste gas such as carbon dioxide from the Living Unit atmosphere. The Mars colony’s communication system will involve two orbiting satellites: one around Mars and one around the sun. The satellite orbiting Mars will only be interrupted when Mars is positioned between it and Earth. To counter the lapse, the second satellite orbiting the sun will intercept and relay the transmission, allowing almost 24/7 communication with Earth. The colony will lose transmission only when the sun is between Mars and Earth and Mars is between its satellite and Earth simultaneously. Mars One will launch a team of four every two years starting in 2026. It will take a year after departing Earth for a team to land on the surface of Mars. The organization hopes to train and send new teams, even after the initial six have colonized the planet. ------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app:http://bit.ly/1sYjIzc Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus
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Space x more then Mars one lol
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This is great. I cant wait to see the feedback well get from this.
I imagine them having helmet cams and sending footage back to us from their daily living.
Whoever gets the Rights to that will have the best ratings on earth.
Also it will be one of the greatest accomplishments that we can all be proud of as Human beings.
Its hard to imagine how will all of this work, but its good to know we have brilliant minds working on this.
We will finally start conquering the universe as opposed to hoarding the earthly elements. Which
are limited and controlled by the 1%. #BURN BERNIE BURN# -
That's a fair plan but theres a few realities about mars its polar tilt in summer its sandstorms that erode paint and sand can pile up like snow very quickly....communication satelites you should have 3 around mars and 3 around the sun....the best trees to plant would be Siberian pine in strong solid domes that can withstand fierce wind sand storms for months at a time the best base location is at the pole to get ice...these astronoughts need food air and plants for real clean natural air
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Donald Trump Should be Killed YOU FUCKING RASSIST IDIOT !
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Looks like it will be misery for the first couple decades. They should utilize the geology. Look for caves and rilles. Less work, more living space. Work smart not hard.
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👍👍👍👍
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2024? id give it to 2040
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You guys should make a seperate channel called Tomo news tech to get into the latest tech news.
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Never gonna happen at least not for another 20 years
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well at some point well be able to travel into other planets and live there interesting we might be able to survive.
if earth is dying mars will be great doe i wonder will we be able to search of any ores there maybe something new and cool.
welp i can say right now in 100 years from now well be making actual spaceships witch can travel to other planets and hold a lot of people im watching you star wars you are nothing
NOTHING!!!!!!!
as well as the US army is testing lazer weapons hmm even more interesting.welp i hope we find actuall life on mars. -
Let's get out of here!!! Lol
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what about pets?........ I ask the dumbest questions
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Why in the hell would people move to mars
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I thought mars one was a scam. guess not
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Awesomeness XD
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Honestly the only use for Mars at this moment is mining minerals. Unless we find a way to jumpstart some geogical proceses in Mars, this planet will remain uninhabitable, for a long period of time.
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Mars one is not a rival of SpaceX. They would have to actually have money, technology or a viable plan. SpaceX on the other hand already has landed 4 first stage boosters, two of which came back from supersonic speeds to land propulsively. SpaceX has the technology and the will and the plan to do this, nobody else does.
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So old news 1
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Technomancer begins
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Isn't mars one a scam?
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