The class notebooks are all set up...
thats where your research notes etc should go |
Mars: Elton vs Elon
Let's start with a look at a Starship and a wee song:
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One of those two YouTube clips should work
Mars ain't the kind of place To raise your kids In fact, it's cold as hell And there's no one there to raise them If you did Elton John |
So we will be heading to Mars some time soon, it wont be cheap.... any thoughts about that?
That is pretty much the ISSUE... what do you think, should we be sending folk to Mars?
Your assessment will be based on how you research the issue and then justify your opinion
Everything should go into OneNote... It's all set up for you
First, these two clips
That is pretty much the ISSUE... what do you think, should we be sending folk to Mars?
Your assessment will be based on how you research the issue and then justify your opinion
Everything should go into OneNote... It's all set up for you
First, these two clips
Who is Elon Musk |
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Really.. could humans live on mars |
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Some stuff to get you underway....
There is some "helpful stuff" below...
There is WAY more than you will need but plenty to get you going
There is WAY more than you will need but plenty to get you going
Some things to think about... (there will be plenty more too)
Planning stage:
why go who goes who chooses how many ages physical attributes mental attributes |
Travelling there:
space ship fuel oxygen food water keeping fit & healthy waste radiation navigate communication who's in charge |
Living there:
food water oxygen housing conditions on Mars keep healthy / get ill growing crops communicate with home energy / fuel what will happen to them gravity what to do get home |
To guide your thinking:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html/2
- We could be wiped out by 6 or 7 things, what are they
- Explain the analogy of copying a document to a second hard drive
- Why 1 million people
- Why Mars as opposed to mercury or venus
- Life has been around for something like 38 million centuries... whats so special about THIS century
- Why is the present day "an extraordinarily unusual time to be alive"
- Apart from our mate Elon who are some other famous chaps that rckon space is the way to go for the survival of the human race
How to do it... maybe something to think about
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html/3
- "if there's a will there's a way"…... is that how Musk sees it?
- Summarise Musk's business plan, what is the link between PayPal and SpaceX
- What were the early SpaceX hiring ploicies?
- How does the Falcon 1 compare to NASA's Saturn V?
- Explain... "objects in low Earth orbit are not in zero gravity they are free fall" (diagam)
- Orbital velocity vs escape velocity?
- Do rockets go straight up
- In rocket launches getting things 99.9% right is good enough- yes?
Some more useful links.....
I don’t expect you to read them all but it should be a jolly good starting point for your reading/research
Elon Musk: Mars isn't for rich people, its for explorers who will probably die Link here
Seven minutes of terror Youtube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I8AoB1xgU
NASA … Mars FAQ’s http://www.nasa.gov/offices/marsplanning/faqs/
Mars for educators http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/classroom/
Why we can't send humans to mars yet http://www.wired.co.uk/article/getting-to-mars
Mission to Mars UK Space Agency https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/312190/space-uk-issue-40.pdf
Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/nasa/searchingforlife/mars-science-lab/a/why-go-to-mars?ref=physics_nasa
Guardian Newspaper https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mars-one-project-human-colony
I don’t expect you to read them all but it should be a jolly good starting point for your reading/research
Elon Musk: Mars isn't for rich people, its for explorers who will probably die Link here
Seven minutes of terror Youtube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I8AoB1xgU
NASA … Mars FAQ’s http://www.nasa.gov/offices/marsplanning/faqs/
Mars for educators http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/classroom/
Why we can't send humans to mars yet http://www.wired.co.uk/article/getting-to-mars
Mission to Mars UK Space Agency https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/312190/space-uk-issue-40.pdf
Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/nasa/searchingforlife/mars-science-lab/a/why-go-to-mars?ref=physics_nasa
Guardian Newspaper https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mars-one-project-human-colony