Axios says that Robert Zubrin, who has spent a lot of time trying to promote a complicated way of getting to and from Mars, and a couple of other "space evangelists" got caught up in the excitement of the Apollo 11 celebrations by saying that actually, colonising Titan is a better long term for humanity. By 2069.
Ha ha.
I will write a post about the continual confusion about the aims of a space program sometime soon.
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Zubrin is straight disinformation. Promoting trips to Mars, out and back single-shot rocketry. You'd have to think of him as a loony-toon except that he's really there just to mislead the public that rocketry goes with space travel. Nothing could be further from the truth. Rocketry makes any meaningful space program ridiculous. He's a professional liar for the oligarchy. Apparently he's an Irishman so that figures right?
Agent Zubrin's motto is "Just lift and throw and let it go" ... The ultimate stupid approach to space travel.
These guys are hoping to use the water thats already under the ground in Mars. Plenty of water on Mars, underneath the surface. But there is a problem here. The water in the ocean is over 150 parts per million deuterium molecules. But water on Mars will be much higher in deuterium. So everyone will get tired and die pretty early on, although plants will sprout more easily in an high deuterium, high CO2 environment.
So if we were going on public pronouncements we are a very long way from a colony on Mars. But if they are using the technology they took covert in the 1950's thats an whole other matter. Because then they can get the gear to separate the deuterium depleted water from the heavy water and make a fist of things. Remembering always that you have unlimited electricity available on asteroids, and you may have it available on Mars, given its feeble atmosphere. Bear in mind that the daytime sky is black on Mars. Thats how thin the air is. The impression you have to the contrary is pure NASA lies.
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