Great News for a Mars Colony!

WJ-OSU-STEELERS said:
I didn’t know where to put this article but it dies relate to humans trying to colonize Mars or the moon.

Regarding various seeds and strains of diseases, I believe there is a seed vault called the Doomsday vault that’s houses some of the worlds most unusual seeds and preserves them from disease.

Just interesting stuff.

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Colonizing Mars is always "about 20 years away".

When we landed on the moon in 1969: "We will have humans walking on Mars by 1990".
NASA scientist in 1990: "With all the progress that we have been making, I am convinced we will colonize Mars by 2010".
Elon Musk in 2010: "Now that we have private enterprises (like SpaceX) in the space race, we should be on Mars by the 2030's".
2024: "Humans on Mars by the 2040's is very doable".

Any bets?
 
WJ-OSU-STEELERS said:
I didn’t know where to put this article but it dies relate to humans trying to colonize Mars or the moon.

Regarding various seeds and strains of diseases, I believe there is a seed vault called the Doomsday vault that’s houses some of the worlds most unusual seeds and preserves them from disease.

Just interesting stuff.

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I guess the Doomsday seed vault is a good idea, but I don't know enough about it. It's in a pretty inaccessible place: Svalbard, Norway in the Artic. Polar bears live on that island. I'm not sure how valuable it would be in a true human doomsday scenario.
 
We better be real careful bringing back any rocks from Mars! I don't want to become part of a bad Hollywood horror science fiction movie:

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Microbes Found Alive Sealed in Rock For 2 Billion Years

Deep underground, in the darkness far below the bustling activity on the surface, a community of microbes has been living their best lives in isolation.
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Deep underground, in the darkness far below the bustling activity on the surface, a community of microbes has been living their best lives in isolation.

What makes these organisms incredibly special is that they have been cut off for billions of years – far longer than any other community of subterranean microbes we've ever seen. This find of living microbes in 2 billion-year-old rock absolutely smashes the previous record of 100 million years.
 

Jupiter Has No Surface. Here's How That's Actually Possible.​

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There's nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship.

But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn't have a surface, what does it have? How can it hold together?
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Jupiter Has No Surface. Here's How That's Actually Possible.

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth.
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Are Asteroids Really Worth a Fortune? Here's What We Know.

Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers.
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The paper divides metals on asteroids into two distinct types – those that would be worth returning to Earth and those that wouldn't.

Really, the only metals judged to be worthy of returning to Earth are the platinum-group metals (PGMs), which are known for their extraordinarily high cost, relatively low supply, and high usefulness in a variety of modern-day technology. That includes catalytic converters, which is why they are commonly the target of thieves.

The other category would be metals used for in-space construction, such as iron, aluminum, and magnesium. While these might not be economically viable to send back to Earth because of their relatively low prices on our home planet, they are useful up in space for constructing large structures, such as space stations or solar power arrays.
 
Now this is really weird:

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Quantum Physicists Just Found Evidence of 'Negative Time'

Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it – an effect dismissed as an illusion caused by how waves are distorted by matter.
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Now, researchers at the University of Toronto, through innovative quantum experiments, say they have demonstrated that "negative time" isn't just a theoretical idea – it exists in a tangible, physical sense, deserving closer scrutiny.
 
Humans ability to work in difficult conditions just amaze me. This info could be helpful in someday man exploring another worlds concealed lake.

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Mysterious Frozen Lake Is a Time Capsule From Millions of Years Ago

A living time capsule frozen in the depths of Lake Enigma in Antarctica contains a unique ecosystem that has been isolated from the rest of the world since its surface permanently froze.
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Just be careful what you bring back. I don't want to be living a cheap SciFi channel movie:


NASA has unveiled a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program to increase the chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth. The agency will explore two different landing strategies simultaneously during the program’s development phase. This dual-track approach is designed to foster competition, spark innovation, and reduce costs and timelines.

Ultimately, NASA will choose one strategy to move forward with, as the program aims to unlock the mysteries of the universe and investigate whether Mars ever supported life. The final design and confirmation of the program are expected in the latter half of 2026.
 
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First steps taken toward developing interstellar lightsails

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner, known as the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, has been exploring the idea. The...
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The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner, known as the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, has been exploring the idea. The concept is to use lasers to propel miniature space probes attached to "lightsails" to reach ultrafast speeds and eventually our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.
 
Where there is water there is life:

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Jupiter's moon Callisto is very likely an ocean world

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured magnetic measurements near Callisto that suggested that its ice shell...
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