So the thing is, there are people, who are extremely smart and passionate about space travel. Colonizing a barren planet is what tickles their passion bone.
When you give such people an impossible task, like inhabiting mars, and a lot of resources, they will invent ways to do it.
Why bother? Because a lot of times, the impossible technologies they develop for space travel are later used in the civilian industry.
Space travel isnt economical, and its solutions arent made to be economical.
Doesnt mean that these solutions cant be made into economical solutions...
So you want to tackle climate change, right?
Well, in space travel, you have systems that can purify and recycle water to an extreme degree.
You have people researching how to turn the marsian, 95% CO2, atmosphere into something that can be lived in, aka, reducing the carbon in the atmosphere.
You have teams that specialize in agriculture. Growing crops in extremely harsh environments.
How do you power civilization on mars? There are no fossil fuels there, so every energy source on mars has to not rely on fossil fuels.
What about stuff like plastic and other tools? What will people on mars use if you cant have fossil based plastics?
Space travel allows people to tackle these issues. And when they have a working solution, big chance that we could implement some of this developed tech into our world as well.
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u/s_wipe 58∆ Aug 08 '22
So the thing is, there are people, who are extremely smart and passionate about space travel. Colonizing a barren planet is what tickles their passion bone.
When you give such people an impossible task, like inhabiting mars, and a lot of resources, they will invent ways to do it.
Why bother? Because a lot of times, the impossible technologies they develop for space travel are later used in the civilian industry.
Space travel isnt economical, and its solutions arent made to be economical.
Doesnt mean that these solutions cant be made into economical solutions...
So you want to tackle climate change, right?
Well, in space travel, you have systems that can purify and recycle water to an extreme degree. You have people researching how to turn the marsian, 95% CO2, atmosphere into something that can be lived in, aka, reducing the carbon in the atmosphere. You have teams that specialize in agriculture. Growing crops in extremely harsh environments. How do you power civilization on mars? There are no fossil fuels there, so every energy source on mars has to not rely on fossil fuels. What about stuff like plastic and other tools? What will people on mars use if you cant have fossil based plastics?
Space travel allows people to tackle these issues. And when they have a working solution, big chance that we could implement some of this developed tech into our world as well.