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Reddit mentions of Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

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We found 5 Reddit mentions of Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must. Here are the top ones.

Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
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Found 5 comments on Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must:

u/yoweigh · 37 pointsr/spacex

Welcome to the Zubrin AMA! As you may already know, Dr. Robert Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars" was a significant early influence on SpaceX's Mars colonization plans, and his new book, “The Case for Space,” discusses how the entrepreneurial launch revolution spearheaded by SpaceX can open up a future of unlimited possibilities. His recent IAC2019 Mars Direct 2.0 presentation presentation also generated some good discussion here on r/spacex.

That's all, folks! Dr. Zubrin has signed off for today after answering questions for 3 solid hours, and he even plans to pop back in over the next few days to answer more! Thanks again to Dr. Z and everyone else involved from the Mars Society!

Also, thank you very much to the community for doing such an excellent job with the questions! There's been some great technical discussion in here.

u/INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS · 7 pointsr/Mars

How We'll Live on Mars is a book released by Ted Talks. A 100 page, short read about Colonization efforts through NASA and Space X

The Case of Mars came out in 1996, and was later revised when the Curiosity Rover landed on Mars. This is much longer and more in detail about the entire process of trying to go to Mars, the ideas with the International Space Station, potential lunar base and the space shuttle. Very detailed. A bit superfluous in detail, honestly.

There is also a short series by National Geographic called Mars. Half of it is interviews with said authors above and other officials, such as Elon Musk, and then the other half is a hypothetical narrative of what the first four years on Mars will be like.

The Mars One Mission is a bust. It's a really interesting dream but there is no way it will happen. Opening up space exploration to the private sector has jump started a new space-era for us. It is tangible, everyone is on fire for the next step.

NASA is sending a fly by mission to Mars in 2023, a husband and wife, to loop around the planet. This will be the farthest any human has been in space.

In 2028 tentatively, more likely 2033, we will send our first team to the ground on Mars. There it is likely they will set up a colony.

Elon Musks' ambitious dreams are that by the end of the century we will have a city of 1,000,000 people on Mars. It can happen, it's just a matter of physics problem and the support of the Earth population.

Getting to another planet drops our extinction rate to almost zero. Once we can planetary engineer (terraform) another planet, we will be sure to survive any cataclysmic event on Earth.

Here is Elon Musk on TED Talk discussing Rockets and the Future with Mars at about 30 minutes in.

u/PotentiallySarcastic · 2 pointsr/space

Here it is on the Kindle.

u/Ambiwlans · 1 pointr/spacex

This AMA is now over.

The mod team would like to thank Dr. Zubrin for his insights and inspiring words. And thank the Mars Society team for making this exchange possible along with everyone who participated asking well thought out stimulating questions.

To those showing up too late to ask questions, hopefully you'll find some of the many questions Dr. Zubrin has answered (for over 3 hours!) to be relevant. If not, there is a good chance he has already answered your question in The Case for Mars or The Case for Space. So if you haven't read them yet, check them out.

If you're interested in the Mars Society, be sure to check them out on Youtube, here on reddit or their site. Special shoutout to /u/EdwardHeisler and /u/Marsonaut for acting as our Reddit - Mars Society liaisons (even if it cost them event tickets!).

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/worldnews

Sure thing.

> Collaborators of University of Arizona Prof Jay Melosh... ...have published calculations showing that significant fractions of this material can find their way to nearby planets such as Mars within time scales that are very short compared to the demonstrated viable lifespans of dormant bacteria.

> Indeed 500kg/year of unsterilized Martian rocks are estimated to fall on Earth every year.

So, if we can find evidence of prebacteria on Mars, we can conclude that life either originated on Mars or was brought in from outside the solar system to Mars and then transferred to Earth.