Thursday, 23 February 2017

Mars! We are coming


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


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