Mars!
We are coming
We
know you are not ideal to live in
You
have toxic carbon di oxide
Needing
to avoid the air to breathe
You
have low pressure
Necessitating
pressure suit
You
have no magnetic field
To
ward off the bombarding cosmic radiation
the absence of magnetosphere is like the
absence of mosquito net when mosquitoes fly around us
making it a merry free bite for the mosquitoes
just as the absence of magnetosphere leads to
free bombarding run of cosmic rays!
All that Needing
us to live off the surface
Underneath
in lava tubes and caves
As
on Moon to avoid the radiation
And
shelter the inhabitants
Still
there is charm in the red coloured you
Coloured
by the oxidised Iron on you
There
is charm to live off the Earth
Out
there in space colonizing you
Still
you have water ice a saving grace
To
make you livable, to produce oxygen
To
breathe, to use as rocket fuel
You
have red soil still found suitable
To
grow plants to fill our bellies
We
shall use your red soil, nickel-iron ore
In
meteorites to build structures, buildings
With
our 3 D printers at
No
traffic jams
No
high rise buildings
No
nature destruction
Colonising
you offer a fresh lease of life
For
the battered citizens of Earth
That is a great way to colonize and live on you
Still
there are some more challenges
The
launch window, the time to launch to you
Happens
only once in two years, chemical rockets
take
nine long months to get to you
More
fuelled strong rockets can reach you
In
six months still the journey remains long
Variable
Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket,
nuclear
rockets are there too cutting down the
journey
time to fourty four days and two weeks
and
the exciting propulsion can make it 72 hours
See
we are planning to get you quicker
To
make the incredibly colder you
We
are Terrafarming you
We
plan artificial global warming scenario
By
crashing Chloro fluro carbons(CFCs)
Perflurocarbons(PFCs)
payloads on to your surface
Raising
the climate warmer to live in comfort
We
plan to create artificial magnetosphere
Placing
super conducting rings around you
Then
we plan food,power, communication
Surface
vehicles for transport on you
With
all these seemingly science fiction plans
We
are coming to you
Yea
Mars! We are coming
To
colonize you, to live on you
To
make you our planet
Hope
to meet you in high spirits
To
welcome us, see you there!
-Mohan Sanjeevan
Pic: A cutaway view of a mars settlement showing horticulture gardening area, pic credit: NASA
I was very conversant with moon settlements inside out, as I was event mentor to the student teams during National space challenge 2011. Now I have become very conversant with the mars settlements as well adding to my expertise on colonizing in space. I also mooted the concept of using inflatable domes when the spacecraft is completely setting up a habitat somewhere in blank space for the crew losing the spacecraft