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Also, how will you address the issue of food? I'm assuming that settlers will need to be proficient in some sort of farming, as making food supplies dependent on the successful arrival of future missions sounds sounds pretty risky. Read more
How much is this going to cost? I would imagine that making these one-way missions is going to cut back on the end cost *dramatically*, but it's still going to be incredibly costly. Read more
Wow, that's quite a bit of time shaved off. Just out of curiosity, what do they project the transit time will look like by 2040? Read more
Psychological screening will obviously be a very important part of the training process. What sort of characteristics are you looking for in an ideal Martian astronaut? What sort of characteristics will you be looking to weed out? Read more
Do you have any idea how big the base will be relative to the one used for Mars500? One of the main goals of the Mars500 simulated mission was to assess how people handled cohabitating in such close quarters for extended periods of time, but the area they were living in was presumably larger than any spacecraft that… Read more
It took NASA's Curiosity rover a little over eight months to make the trip from Earth to Mars. How long do you think it will take to transport humans there? Read more
This is super badass. Read more
"Howard Hughes was one of the most colorful men of our time," Stan Lee has said in reference to his decision to model Tony Stark in the entrepreneur's likeness. "He was an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-billionaire, a ladies' man and finally a nutcase... Without being crazy [Tony Stark] was Howard Hughes." Read more
Undoubtedly. We're talking Favreau and the latest incarnation of Stark, to be sure. Read more
Tsk. Those launch delays. SOOOOOO ROUGH. /sarcasm Read more
I've seen it with and without the hyphen. Read more
I have seen the error of my ways. Thanks for the references below. Read more
I also wanted to point out that the dance between science and science fiction that Sagan mentions has been a uniting theme between the interviews in io9's "What Was It?" series. As Neil deGrasse Tyson told us, "Good science fiction inspires people to pursue science every time." Read more
Actually, the boat that the researchers were in was tiny compared to the whales. They happened upon the whales by accident, and reading accounts of the encounter, it sounds like the researchers were pretty frightened at the prospect of startling them. Luke Rendell, who led the team: Read more
Curiosity will be exploring Sharp's lower elevations, but it'll still be a pretty serious trek. Read more
In a press conference yesterday, mission manager Mike Watkins delivered my favorite quote to date on the subject of Curiosity's photos: Read more
That question was asked by boingboing's Xeni Jardin. She got her answer. Read more
The first tweet from Curiosity's twitter feed was almost as good: "I'm safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!! #MSL" Read more