Mars!
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This article was written for the SDC by the wonderful member Alan G.
There has been a lot of talk about colonising Mars recently, so I decided to find out more and to fill in the gaps – what they don’t seem to want to tell anybody.
A lot of us have seen or read The War of the Worlds and other movies that establish Mars as a planet actually populated by warlike aliens. Other movies see it as a ‘dead’ planet, much like the disused cement pits they pick to film the landscape.
Sometimes we see quite ridiculous movies about humans being able to actually live on Mars, breathing air and so on. There was a recent movie called The Martian in which Matt Damon was stranded on the red planet and had to find his way back to Earth. Just a couple of points here. Mars is a lot smaller than Earth, and the gravitational effect; notice I didn’t use the word ‘force’ – it’s not, according to Einstein, it is simply the effect of the curvature in Space-time as a result of a large object. However, we don’t teach that in most schools, although his theories date back to the 1900s!
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This article was written for the SDC by the wonderful member Alan G.
There has been a lot of talk about colonising Mars recently, so I decided to find out more and to fill in the gaps – what they don’t seem to want to tell anybody.
A lot of us have seen or read The War of the Worlds and other movies that establish Mars as a planet actually populated by warlike aliens. Other movies see it as a ‘dead’ planet, much like the disused cement pits they pick to film the landscape.
Sometimes we see quite ridiculous movies about humans being able to actually live on Mars, breathing air and so on. There was a recent movie called The Martian in which Matt Damon was stranded on the red planet and had to find his way back to Earth. Just a couple of points here. Mars is a lot smaller than Earth, and the gravitational effect; notice I didn’t use the word ‘force’ – it’s not, according to Einstein, it is simply the effect of the curvature in Space-time as a result of a large object. However, we don’t teach that in most schools, although his theories date back to the 1900s!
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