Discuss The Knowledge

On Earth II it would take a long time to recreate the technology and infrastructure to replicate what we have on Earth. Would we want to, for example, go down the petrol/diesel engine route? Possibly we would choose electric/fuel cell methods for providing the energy for propulsion. It will take som...

I don't seem to have quite got the hang of this as I have just lost my input for the second time!!! Much of what is relevant here is described in The Knowledge, Chapter 4. Cooking is key and lighting a fire shouldn't be that difficult as long as we have Ray Mears along !!! We would need the proper c...

Objectives a) Bring together required Earth II characteristics mentioned in other chapters b) Review what is possible today from ground base observatories, orbiting satellites and spacecraft which have visited other planets in the Solar System Required Earth II characteristics An article in Astrono...

It would seem reasonable to choose an Earth II which had a similar year and day to our present home. Our bodies and any plants and animals we take with us might struggle to adapt to different cycles and we don't need to present ourselves with unnecessary difficulties. A future Martian colony would h...

A couple of posts under Book chapters/Chapter 3, Agriculture, have some relevance here namely, no-till farming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming) and the Svalbard seedbank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault). In addition the Kew Millenium Seedbank (http://www.kew.or...

Arriving on a remote planet your priorities are the same as in 'The Knowledge' i.e. shelter, food and water. It has been suggested that, prior to humans arriving in large numbers on Mars, some facilities could be landed ahead of time. This is also a possibility for Earth II but, without a detailed p...

The world, as we know it, could end abruptly in a number of ways as listed in Chapter 1 of The Knowledge - that it will end is without question. Our Sun has another five billion years to live until it runs out of hydrogen at its core. As its core contracts its atmosphere will expand until it reaches...

The website of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory can be found at http://phl.upr.edu/ - looks very interesting.

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Mars One, http://www.mars-one.com/, is a Dutch organisation with the aim of establishing a permanent human colony on Mars starting in 2024.

Mars is probably the one and only stepping stone between Earth and a habitable exoplanet so establishing a colony there is a wise move.

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How about just one 'commandment' which I picked up from a BBC TV program, 'Softly, Softly' I think it was.

'Leave it better than you found it'

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