Recent content by Mental Avenger

I began this project over 12 years ago when discussions regarding establishing colonies on Mars inevitably resulted in "We don't have the technology to do that". I began looking into the relevant technology and what was being done with that technology at that time. Basically, the technology that...

About 12 years ago I researched the relevant available information and data, and developed a Proposal to build a viable self-sufficient colony on Mars using current technology. Because of the advancements in technology, that Proposal is even more achievable today. We have the technology, all we...

NASA is still wasting time, money, and resources on meaningless programs, instead of investing all that effort into designing, building, and launching the components for a viable, self sufficient settlement on Mars. Example: Collecting samples from Mars and returning them to Earth will be...

I disagree. IMO, the warping of “space” is a poor representation of gravity. It lends itself to many That’s easy. I did that about 12 years ago. This is the 3D segment from a larger explanation. In order for the wormhole/space travel concept to work, the wormhole would have to be a...

Ok, good points. Therefore I will revise my estimates IMO, the probability of life existing on Mars is about .00000001%. There may be a .00001% chance that there was once some very primitive life on Mars.

Based upon everything I have seen regarding Mars over the past two decades, I would say that the probability of life existing on Mars is about .000000001%, if that. There may be a .000001% chance that there was once some very primitive life on Mars, but I doubt it.

This isn't Pern.

Since the Universe, by definition, is everything there is, you cannot be outside of it. Since there is only one Universe, the term "universes" is illogical. Having said that, Isaac Asimov once described what he referred to as the Observable Universe. Consider that the Universe as we know it is...

I doubt that there is any way to determine the origin of something that far out. To date, we cannot even prove by observation the Oort cloud even exists. With current technology, it could take 10-15-20 years to get a probe out that far, and never be able to program it or control it to get...

There is no evidence that life of any kind ever existed on Mars. Actually, there is no reason to believe there ever was life on Mars. The conditions that supported abiogenesis on Earth do not appear to have occurred on Mars. Of course there are those who believe Richard Hoagland and his...

The term "mole people" is a pejorative term intended to elicit emotional response and therefore inappropriate in a scientific discussion. Mega buildings are becoming popular. They include apartments, company work spaces, entertainment, recreation, sports, and gardens, everything people need...

There is no evidence of that. The velocity of an impacting asteroid has nothing to do with the angle of the impact. There is no such “official narrative”. That is false. There is no such oil company conspiracy. There are very few, in any , interstellar asteroid impacts, and no asteroid...

False. The record of how often they hit and magnitude is irrelevant to what any future asteroid will do. The energy can be calculated when the asteroid is tracked long enough to determine the parameters. Asteroids have nothing to do with the oil supply or the oil market. There are no hidden...

I don't know what plans you are referencing. We found out the hard way what pure oxygen atmosphere leads to. Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee paid the price for that mistake.

Just the weight of the Regolith. I found the composition of the lunar Regolith and the corresponding material on Earth, and how much that weighs on Earth. Then adjusted for how much it would weigh per cubit foot on the Moon. This is all from memory of about 10-12 years ago.