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    Where will we be in space in 2049? A look at spaceflight over the next 25 years - Will we finally have a base on Mars — or perhaps even a city?
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    Where will we be in space in 2049? A look at spaceflight over the next 25 years – Will we finally have a base on Mars — or perhaps even a city?

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    1. Gari_305 on

      From the artcile

      >The next quarter-century promises to be action-packed as well, with humanity taking ever-greater leaps into the final frontier — perhaps all the way to [the moon](https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html) and [Mars](https://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html). Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, but let’s do so anyway. Here’s a look at a few of the big-picture spaceflight trends that seem set to unfold between now and 2049.

    2. Thatingles on

      We will definitely have a presence on the moon, mars and probably one or two of the asteroids. They will be mostly robotic and the big question is, how many humans do we send out there? Is it a mass migration or work crews who are there to do jobs the robots can’t handle.

    4. Bandeezio on

      I’d say zero chance of a city on Mars in only 25 years. We need much better technology to justify thousands of ppl on Mars.

      Humans can’t really live in low gravity safely for all that long. We don’t know what the exact effects of Mars .37g is, but it’s well under half of what humans and all their ancestors evolved to for billions of years. It’s probably way too low to have a long term colony other than cycling ppl out constantly, which more or less defeats the purpose of scaling up Mars research outpost to a city.

      Humans are SUPER evolved for Earth, so realistically we can’t live in space because we can’t change gravity in any practical way. We can find planets with Earth like gravity and make that work OR we can stay on Earth is more or less the options anytime soon. The radiation is comparatively easy to solve vs the low gravity, ppl just don’t like to admit it’s such a big problem because a lot of talk about space exploration like this is just to keep kids imagination going.

      I don’t expect we ever learn how to manipulate gravity much, so I expect artificial gravity along with warp drives to never happen and we have to change the way we’ve imagined space exploration.