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Billionaire space pioneer announces plan to colonise Mars with 80,000 people in two decades
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Our future: A futuristic design of a protective dome on Mars shows a similar idea to Musk's that would be transparent and pressurized with CO2 allowing Mars' soil to grow life-sustaining crops. |
An ambitious billionaire has revealed his plans to colonise Mars - and charge 80,000 brave souls $500,000 to be flown there. Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, has announced his vision for life on the Red Planet. He says the settlement plan would start small, with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people, who he would take there on a reusable rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane. Musk, already the first private space entrepreneur to launch a successful mission to the International Space Station this spring, says what would begin by first sending fewer than 10 people could blossom 'into something really big.' 'At Mars, you can start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it into something really big,' he told the Royal Aeronautical Society in London last week while awarded the society’s gold medal for his contribution to the commercialization of space. Laying out precise details and figures to his 'difficult' but 'possible' plans, the space pioneer says the first ferry of explorers would be no more than 10 people at a price tag of $500,000 (£312,110) per ticket. 'The ticket price needs to be low enough that most people in advanced countries, in their mid-forties or something like that, could put together enough money to make the trip,' he said. Rather than lounging around on an interplanetary vacation, the passengers would be sent to work, carrying with them equipment to build sustainable housing on the dusty and currently barren soil for future generations. Immediate ground work would focus on building transparent domes pressurized with CO2 while possibly covered in a layer of water to serve as protection from the sun. With the CO2, Mars' soil would be capable of growing crops for food, he said. Additional equipment carried over could also produce fertilizer, methane and oxygen using the atmosphere’s natural elements of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and its surface of ice water. Musk believes one person out of every 100,000 people would be interested in making the journey with 8 billion expected on Earth by time his plans become reality. (Read by Brian Salter. Brian Salter is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
一個(gè)野心勃勃的億萬(wàn)富翁透露了他在火星上殖民的計(jì)劃——這需要8萬(wàn)個(gè)勇敢的人支付50萬(wàn)美金飛往火星才能實(shí)現(xiàn)。 私營(yíng)太空公司SpaceX的創(chuàng)始人、首席執(zhí)行官億萬(wàn)富翁艾龍?馬斯克已經(jīng)宣布了他對(duì)火星生命的宏圖。 他說(shuō),殖民計(jì)劃會(huì)從小起步,先送10人以下的先鋒隊(duì)去火星,他將用一艘以液態(tài)氧氣和甲烷驅(qū)動(dòng)的可重復(fù)使用的火箭運(yùn)送這些人前往火星。 就在今年春天,馬斯克已經(jīng)成為第一個(gè)成功完成國(guó)際空間站飛行任務(wù)的私營(yíng)太空企業(yè)家。馬斯克說(shuō)這個(gè)10人以下的先驅(qū)項(xiàng)目會(huì)發(fā)展成“宏偉大業(yè)”。 上周英國(guó)皇家航空協(xié)會(huì)在倫敦給馬斯克頒發(fā)了協(xié)會(huì)的金質(zhì)獎(jiǎng)?wù)拢碚盟麨樘丈虡I(yè)化所做的貢獻(xiàn)。馬斯克在表彰大會(huì)上說(shuō):“在火星上,你可以先建設(shè)起自給自足的文明,然后逐漸發(fā)展成偉大的火星文明。” 這位太空先驅(qū)列舉了他“艱巨”但“可行”的計(jì)劃的精確細(xì)節(jié)和數(shù)字,他說(shuō)運(yùn)送的第一批探險(xiǎn)者將不超過(guò)10個(gè)人,票價(jià)為每人50萬(wàn)美元(合312110英鎊)。 他說(shuō):“票價(jià)需要低到讓發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家的大多數(shù)四十多歲的中年人都能籌到的地步?!?/p> 這些乘客可不是去火星度假旅游的,他們是去干活的。他們將用攜帶的設(shè)備在火星當(dāng)前灰塵覆蓋的貧瘠土地上為未來(lái)數(shù)代人建設(shè)耐久性住房。 他們到火星后將即刻開(kāi)展的地面工作主要是建造密封透明的穹頂形二氧化碳增壓建筑,外表層可能會(huì)覆蓋一層“水墻”,以防止穹頂內(nèi)居民受到太陽(yáng)輻射傷害。 他說(shuō),有了二氧化碳,火星的土壤就能種植莊稼。 帶去的其他設(shè)備還可以用火星大氣中天然的氮?dú)?、二氧化碳和表面的冰水制造出肥料、甲烷和氧氣?/p> 馬斯克相信每10萬(wàn)人中會(huì)有1人對(duì)這次火星之旅感興趣,而在他的計(jì)劃變成現(xiàn)實(shí)之前,地球上將迎來(lái)80億個(gè)新生命。 相關(guān)閱讀 美"好奇號(hào)"昨登陸火星 探索火星生存環(huán)境 美國(guó)打造百年星艦計(jì)劃 宇航員將有去無(wú)回 俄科學(xué)家預(yù)測(cè)20年內(nèi)人類(lèi)和外星人相遇 英國(guó)人預(yù)測(cè)2025年人類(lèi)將登上火星 (中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 陳丹妮 編輯:Julie) |
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