Extending humanity to other worlds in the Solar System is at the very limits of our modern technology. And unless there are dramatic discoveries in new propulsion systems or we learn how to build everything out of carbon nanotubes, the future of space exploration is going to require living off the land.
The technique is known as In-Situ Resource Utilization or ISRU, and it means supplying as much of your mission from local resources as possible.
And many of our future exploration destinations, like Mars, have a lot to work with. Let’s look at the raw materials on Mars that missions can use to live off the land and the techniques and technologies that will need to be developed to make this possible.
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typo alert 🙂
” The first clue this asteroid is a fake is its name: 2013 AZ5. Asteroids
are named for the year they are discovered, and since it is only 2013….
well, you see the issue. ”
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/100570/2014-az5-the-fake-asteroid-that-wont-hit-earth/#ixzz2MrvbTt5V
“The first clue this asteroid is a fake is its name: 2013 AZ5”. Um, surely you mean 2014?
Looking up nomenclature, I gather that 2013 A* would have had to have been the 130th minor planet discovered 1-15 January 2013. I used the links and founc there was no 2013 AZ5, but there was 2013 AZ118?! So I have no idea what’s going.
wait… From the article: “fake is its name: 2013 AZ5. Asteroids are named for the year they are discovered, and since it is only 2013”
But it is 2013!!!
Also 1000 feet = 300m, not 3k meters
Oh no, the author typed “2013 AZ5” instead of “2014 AZ5.” It must really be the end of the world!
So many people say the error, and it has now been corrected. An honest mistake by the authour. 🙂
Good… maybe I can recycle that flyer I made for our last music party? aka… “It’s the end of the end of the world party!” Only now it’s definitely the end of the end of the world! At least for fear mongers and sensationalistically inclined! “The end of the end of the world party.. Mk II?” How long will this go on? Until the end of time?
Well atleast its going to be a long PARTY and i love parties
All
this recent asteroid business reminds me of this novel I just read
called THE MYOSHI EFFECT which is about an asteroid headed toward earth
and how everybody reacts and the government tries to find a way to
deflect it. Granted the novel is humorous, like Dr Strangelove or
Douglas Adams or something, but how we just reacted to these last 2
space rocks is almost taken from the pages of the book. Fiction and fact
are fast becoming one.
Remember this asteroid’s name “Wormwood” it’s coming soon!