Wayne Throop wrote:
: Sea Wasp
: If you assume each one starts with IDENTICAL equipment -- and that
: the equipment in both cases is optimized for the Moon -- then hell
: yeah, the Mars group is screwed.
: If you assume they each start out with optimal equipment for the
: mission in question, they should be roughly equal.

Equally unscrewed, perhaps so. Equally bankrupt, I very much doubt.
There is some vigorous handwaving in the "and then they make air
and fuel from easily available martian household supplies", among
other issues that provoke my skepticism.

( I note, I'm still pending your recommendatin of Zubrin's "Case for Mars",
so my skepticism is conditional/tenative )

Read that and get back to me on the skepticism. They did some demos
of the relevant processes using simulated martian atmosphere, and for
the most part these things aren't even using 21st century technology,
but late 19th -- early 20th.


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