Like parasites, India is dead set on spreading its people across the world for financial gain, and Trump seems to be more than happy to open the Pajeet floodgates.
Canada’s Pajeet problem is so bad that even the leftists hate them, and Pajeet replacement in America has been ramped up significantly in the tech sector these past few years, and will spread to other sectors soon enough. I’m tired of all of this bullshit and the seemingly never-ending push for more cheap, incompetent Pajeet labor.
I'm not denying growing talent at home but being honest, we are MASSIVELY behind in space technology where we should be.
The principle reason to develop it, which seems forgotten or deliberately sidelined is colonisation and resource extraction. We get to Mars we can start focusing on setting up a second place for humans so population numbers aren't an issue.
We can start extracting resources from the belt, not only are any resource deficits gone overnight but the country/company that does it OWNS the world economy. There is an asteroid currently orbiting us that has more gold than ALL of the Earth combined, another that has enough Helium to make enough fibre optic cables for the entire world.
We develop space travel more, globalists lose immediately.
Not to put a damper on it but Mars isn't happening. It's not a long or even short term solution to anything. Can't sustain an atmosphere there. It's certainly not a solution to overpopulation.
That said I've been a long time advocate for asteroid mining. The first nation or group that manages to tow an asteroid into orbit wins the game.
An atmosphere would take millions of years to be stripped off by solar radiation, so we could simply produce it way faster than it depletes. Also there's already feasible ideas to put a giant superconductor at L1 to ward off radiation.
The real reason Mars isn't suitable is the best launch window is only every 15 years; at the 7 year midpoint it takes twice as much energy, and once every 2 years for any trip.
It's hard logistically. We'd have to go all-in on it and pay a huge price with overproduction or it'll take lifetimes to get the infrastructure set up.
One does not "simply produce" a breathable atmosphere, and no it's not millions of years either. Not in the quantities we're talking about here. Last I paid attention to it you're looking at ten years until potentially lethal degradation of atmospheric pressure.
Nor would a giant superconductor be without risk to the inhabitants either.
And yes the launch window is an enormous problem as well. One that is frankly not surmountable without basically inventing magic.
As far as logistics I mentioned it to the other guy and it bears repeating. The starting point we should be seeking is towing asteroids into orbit to be mined. This would essentially solve the resource portion of developing large scale spacecraft.
Over millions and billions of years, this solar wind gradually eroded the atmosphere
It's losing 100g/s which is nothing. A superconductor magnet at L1 would have no effect on the surface; the purpose is to deflect particles while they are far away so it takes less energy, not to encompass the planet (which would take ridiculous amounts of energy).
We can add more than 100g/s easily. Missing water and oxygen can be added from asteroids. It's not going to be easy or make it Earth 2.0, but we can certainly make it so if your suit gets a hole in it you can make it back to the dome.
Mars is less a DIRECT solution for overpopulation, more a testing ground on feasibility of terraforming.
I'll be honest, being able to mine in space I see more living in space on rotational space stations than on somewhere like Mars. I've heard some others saying Venus is more feasible to live in their atmosphere.
Those others probably include me. Mars isn't suitable long term or short term because it lacks a magnetic dynamo. Which is the thing that keeps our atmosphere in place.
Venus on the other hand isn't much more difficult than obtaining large amounts of a surface that resists sulfuric acid.
Genuinely livable planets on the other hand are extrasolar.
Well, the first group that manages to finance the towing of an asteroid into orbit wins the game.