RSS- The battle for Ocheretyne
- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Robert Zubrin proposed this 30 years ago. Even built prototypes way back then and formed the Mars Society.
Mars has comfortable gravity, but the atmospheric pressure is ~0.5% that of earth, and poisonous due to the high CO2 concentration. It might as well be a vacuum from the perspective of any living thing from earth. Aside from the temperature swings caused by the month long “day”, the moon would be an easier place to operate.
“producing fuel as a byproduct”
I get using this to purify the breathing air on the space station, but this sounds like a ‘research’ scheme that is only viable due to the regulatory structure and the tax funding. Two of China’s universities are listed as contributing to the project. How much is China paying?