Should we relocate to Mars? How much is a rocket?

[veritas]

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If the Indians can do it, why can't we?

[veritas]

Looks to be around 500million... not bad.

[kadame]

Wouldn't you need a tad more than a rocket? Say a habitable environment, for example?

[veritas]

It might actually be affordable oneday to travel around space.. with better aircrafts, technology etc. we might be travelling around the cosmos oneday instead of just flying in a Boeing.

http://qz.com/153969/spacex-just-made-rocket-launches-affordable-heres-how-it-could-make-them-downright-cheap/

[veritas]

Kadame, there's no land tax on Mars. Whoever has the weapons wins. I'm talking militia style. Coup d'etat those American scientists. Hold them hostage to send us supplies. Once have enough go to other planets, collect food there.. calculate a map around the cosmos for guaranteed fuel and food. Like Europa that moon in Jupiter is apparently similar to Earth... I think we'd be genetically sufficient oneday so we don't need to eat so much, age quickly, or even need oxygen. We'd be half robot in some sense... maybe we can fly as well... no need for rockets. I wonder who in the brains will get there first. Medical scientists or rocket scientists...

[Olekoima]

Sure, there is plenty on nitrogen gas out there. May be we should adapt to breath this instead of the more scarce oxygen, but then shall we still be humans?

[kadame]

Sure, there is plenty on nitrogen gas out there. May be we should adapt to breath this instead of the more scarce oxygen, but then shall we still be humans?

LOL. You and veritas have some wild--should I say, ambitious?--imagination. Do we have a choice in the matter? We can just choose not to need oxygen anymore?

[veritas]

I think we can learn a lot from amphibians and fish. I'm sure there's a genetic sequence that can switch from oxygen to nitrogen systems. Even just a super filter which can constantly switch from nitrogen to oxygen.. you can virtually program anything with genes, more powerful than programming computers. Truly the finest creation from the Heavens. His signature all over it. Genes is like understanding a programming language the gods built.

OLK, let's not bring ethics/philosophy into this... that just makes it too complex..

[veritas]

Colonization of Europa... living like Atlantis on another planet.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Europa