Originally created by SpaceNut on 2020-03-01 at 10:52:20 New Hampshire time...
Updated 2025/01/22 This update is Post ID 188
Anyone interested in joining the NewMars forum of the Mars Society is welcome to write: newmarsmember@gmail.com
An Admin checks the email every day at (or close to) Noon UTC.
This is a topic to place benchmark forum discussions to in hopes to attract new members.
A short summary of discussion or topic intent has been posted with main link to locate.
Thanks goes to tahanson43206, for suggesting a Recruiting Section for NewMars Forum:
While we encourage out of the box thinking we also need those that can run the calculations too in order to solve the issues that are presented.
Several initiatives are underway, and opportunities exist for volunteers with appropriate education, skills, talent, motivation and generosity of spirit:
We are striving to make the site a productive forum for garnering people to mars though discussion. We are developing Mars Society or NewMars mission or charter statement to allow for the sustainability of the forum that has been funded and provided by The Mars Society,
Lets use this engineering art, the knowledge of the 50 plus club as a introduction area for what area of expertise one might have to bring to a topic.
1) kbd512 recently initiated a proposal to launch a passenger carrying vehicle from Earth using US Navy style electromagnetic acceleration
electromagnetic launch with microwave propulsion
2) Calliban has been working for some time on an outreach goal of capturing/mining an asteroid. Recent activity includes cocoon wrapping.
Colonizing / terraforming small asteroids
2a) other possible destinations Near Earth Object (NEO) missions
There are many rocks that come as well as go to target inside mars orbit and beyond mars as well.
3) Calliban has also proposed the use of electromagnetic acceleration of mass from the Moon. This is NOT the Gerard O'Neill mass launcher.
Un-conventional ways to LEO
4) tahanson43206 with the My Hacienda, set up to encourage up to 2750 forum members to build a virtual business community to launch and provide a self sufficient plot with a trade business as plots established in Sagan City (2018). Each participant "claims" a square kilometer of surface, and shares below surface with the community, in the economy of a thriving interdependent free market, to provide at least one product or service for others to purchase.
My Hacienda On Mars
4a) possible test site location Testing My Hacienda On Mars Society Devon Island
4b) another possible site to test Testing My Hacienda on Svalbard Islands
Other plausible locations are probable for setting up a self sustainable colony using a drop of resources and just communication to make everything that one needs to survive as if they just landed on mars.