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In NewMars.com (forum) there is a post which is following Mars around the Sun. New Years on Mars occurred on Earth day 2019/03/24. Mars has passed longitude 180 degrees in its stately progression. The calendar is now on Sol 383 or later.
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In recent days, tahanson43206 has been working on building a virtual business incubator in the newmars.com forum.
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If you are interested, the concept is for a participant to take responsibility for development of a virtual plot on Mars, one kilometer square on the surface, in a community called Sagan City (2018).
Participants will interact with each other to specialize in one or more of the knowledge areas which will be needed to sustain civilized life on Mars.
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In addition, tahanson43206 is participating in a membership outreach campaign at NewMars forum. In an effort to build up a virtual business community focused upon Mars, messages are being send to newly registered members, inviting them to participate in the Hacienda topic.
In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.
The 2020 Mars Society Convention took place in the fall of 2020. There were 150 speakers, and 130 of the talks have been recorded as videos.
A discussion of the videos is underway in the NewMars.com/forums ... They are scheduled to change every two Earth days.
As of this posting, the video in review is Video #51. This video is another of a series of talks about a City-State of 1,000,000 people on Mars.
The next video, #58, is a review of the Artemis accords.
The NewMars forum Administrators have closed off registrations. More than 16,900 ID's are registered. The vast majority of these were created by Spam robots. A process is underway to prepare these fake ID's for use by real people. From now on (until policy changes again) admissions to the forum will be by invitation. Existing members are invited to nominate candidates. A mechanism for applying for membership is in use. (see below) As of 2021/01/18, the second By Invitation member was added to the roster.
If a reader of this post in The Knowledge Forum would have a nomination for a person being recruited at the NewMars forum, it is possible to communicate using the Signature line of the Registration Application record of this forum. No registrations are being accepted at this time, but I do check the latest registrations to see if they are from someone other than a spam artist.
There is an active search underway for a person who has many years of experience planning and supervising provisioning of a large cruise ship or miltary vessel. This person would assist RobertDyck in planning provisioning for the Large Ship to carry passengers in the Mars/Earth circuit.
Another volunteer opportunity would be for someone willing to help to plan space missions to Mars. There is an experienced (retired) aerospace engineer in the membership. A new member with interests along these lines would be welcome.
There is a discussion underway to see if the many materials prepared for computation of spacecraft orbital missions might be developed into a tutoral that would be open to anyone interested in learning how navigate a space craft.
There is a robust discussion underway of a Ballistic Package Delivery business opportunity for the Earth-Mars trade. This discussion has advanced to the point that experiments need to be planned, performed and evaluated to see if the proposition is valid.
It appears that if a package is slowed to 450 meters/second by passage through the atmosphere of Mars, a significant range of valuable materials can be safely delivered to customers on the surface of Mars. They'll have to dig the packages out of the regolith, but otherwise it appears that a well design capsule can deliver up to 28 kilograms of useful material.
The latest wrinkle is the beginning of discussion of how to build a landing pad for Starships, using the Ballistic Delivery method to deliver supplies, combined with telepresence from an orbiting space craft, to perform the construction.
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