Anyone want to move to Mars?

[Oceania]

i'd say so. i think most things are more comfortable in higher planes.

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interestingly, it doesn't seem to support 3D life... why is that? according to Ra our earth will support 3D life again after we've adjusted.

[AnthroHeart]

I can't wait to experience the higher planes.
I so get the trembles in the body while I'm here, as I'm very sensitive.

[Oceania]

yeah you're one trembly wolfie but very strong too.

[AnthroHeart]

I think I'm a fox-wolf. I've got more the curiosity/playfulness of a fox, with the feeling of belonging to a pack of a wolf. I think maybe 90/10, fox/wolf, but can't be sure.

Thanks Oceania.

Yeah, it's kind of ironic. I tremble at little things, but also recognize my cosmic godness. Love does that.

[Oceania]

i like the idea of part fox. when i divined my totem animal i came up with koala. but i have no idea what my anthrospecies would be lol. probably something fat and sassy.

uh anyway back to the Mars topic...

[Parsons]

Interesting... Increases in cosmic rays are limiting the duration of manned missions. It seems like it could get to the point that a manned mission to Mars may be impossible (using conventional transportation, of course ).

GROWING PERIL FOR ASTRONAUTS? NASA's successful test flight of Orion on Dec. 5th heralds a renewed capability to send astronauts into deep space. A paper just published in the journal Space Weather, however, points out a growing peril to future deep space explorers: cosmic rays.

The title of the article, penned by Nathan Schwadron of the University of New Hampshire and colleagues from seven other institutions, asks the provocative question, "Does the worsening galactic cosmic ray environment preclude manned deep space exploration?" Using data from a cosmic ray telescope onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, they conclude that while increasing fluxes of cosmic rays "are not a show stopper for long duration missions (e.g., to the Moon, an asteroid, or Mars), galactic cosmic radiation remains a significant and worsening factor that limits mission durations." This figure from their paper shows the number of days a 30 year old astronaut can spend in interplanetary space before they reach their career limit in radiation exposure:



According to the plot, in the year 2014, a 30 year old male flying in a spaceship with 10 g/cm2 of aluminum shielding could spend approximately 700 days in deep space before they reach their radiation dose limit. The same astronaut in the early 1990s could have spent 1000 days in space.

What's going on? Cosmic rays are intensifying. Galactic cosmic rays are a mixture of high-energy photons and subatomic particles accelerated to near-light speed by violent events such as supernova explosions. Astronauts are protected from cosmic rays in part by the sun: solar magnetic fields and the solar wind combine to create a porous 'shield' that fends off energetic particles from outside the solar system. The problem is, as the authors note, "The sun and its solar wind are currently exhibiting extremely low densities and magnetic field strengths, representing states that have never been observed during the Space Age. As a result of the remarkably weak solar activity, we have also observed the highest fluxes of cosmic rays in the Space Age."

The shielding action of the sun is strongest during solar maximum and weakest during solar minimum--hence the 11-year rhythm of the mission duration plot. At the moment we are experiencing Solar Max, which should be a good time for astronauts to fly--but it's not a good time. The solar maximum of 2011-2014 is the weakest in a century, allowing unusual numbers of cosmic rays to penetrate the solar system.

This situation could become even worse if, as some researchers suspect, the sun is entering a long-term phase of the solar cycle characterized by relatively weak maxima and deep, extended minima. In such a future, feeble solar magnetic fields would do an extra-poor job keeping cosmic rays at bay, further reducing the number of days astronauts can travel far from Earth.

To learn more about this interesting research, read the complete article in the online edition of Space Weather.

[David Junior]

you don't have to go to mars. who wants to go there anyway? i'd much rather go to sirius or my own universe.

Ashim i haven't been to disney land lol.

I believe we are a million years to late to find life especially Man on Mar's, A experiment that went wrong during Oh Siris's absence destroyed the planet otherwise we would have neighbors who would of now colonized the stars. This is why they call Siris Oh Siris. Siris's people have rebiult on planet Earth, One reason for our great population. 

I do believe that it is possible to visit Sirius b or rather Sirius five as this planet has rebuilt after being attacked by beings who are no longer. One sixth of earth's population are survivors from Sirius five.

[David Junior]

I believe that our friends from other worlds will build us the necessary mother craft/Tetrahedron/Under craft from pure iron asteroids hollowed and fitted out in orbit. I believe it to be called the second coming of an major armada force, The first time would be when they helped us build the pyramids some 6500 years ago, The pyramids are older than we are told.