
our perceptions of who we are, what our future is, what is possible, what can be achieved all changes when we successfully colonize Mars. I think this is the greatest challenge, and the highest goal humanity can currently set for itself.Ĭolonizing Mars successfully means we can move beyond Earth, it means we are not limited to Earth, and this would change everything. Ken Burgess from Florida on June 21, 2019: I imagine somewhere in another galaxy there is a planet similar to ours, but we can't travel that far at this time. I can't quite imagine people living on Mars, even though they have solved some of the numerous problems. Pamela Oglesby from Sunny Florida on June 22, 2019: “Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology.” “Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars.” Nature Astronomy “Would you let a robot perform your surgery by itself?” CNN.com

The main reason to make it a hyper-loop is to avoid friction from the Martian dust. The hyper loop railway would have to go 55 meters per second, or 198 km/hour. If this circular track was 500 meters in diameter, then the car would have to go around the loop every 57 seconds, (say one RPM to round off).
#GRAVITY ON MARS PLUS#
So let's say we make an underground hyper loop railway on a circular track on an angle facing inwards (so when it is at speed, the gravity of the railcar plus Mars' gravity faces directly down to the floor of the car). (a = acceleration, T = Time to rotate once, r = radius.) There is a simple way to increase gravity within a major base on Mars. Increasing Gravity Inside Long Term Mars Habitations Plants have been grown successfully in zero gee, so it is likely they would also be viable in 38% gee. Although we could simulate Mars' gravity on the International Space Station using a centrifuge, (with some mice in a cage for example), this experiment has never been done. There is no medical evidence for the effects on Mars' gravity on Earth life. Mars' surface gravity is 3.711 meters / second^2, or about 38% of Earth's gravity.
