Timeline

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Timeline
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Mars 2050
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Government From the bottom up

• Communities
• 200 autonomous units
• 250-375 people
• Weekly political meetings
• Making Decisions through consensus
• Messengers
• Chosen from each community
• Present policies of communities
• Choose Six

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The Six

• Six people lead the dome community
• Serve two-year terms
• Chosen from Messengers by Messengers
• Make policies that effect entire dome
• Make policies between domes and other space
  settlements and Earth
• Several checks on power

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Social Class System

• Advancement by education and community service
• Incentives to advance through system
• Minimum educational and social standards

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Education

• Minimum educational standards
• Mars-Earth exchange programs
• Education centered in Core area, same place
  political meetings take place
• Personalized education Human teachers that care
• Knowledge-based exams as well as personal
  interviews

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Social Deviance Corrections

• Lawless society
• Communities deal with deviants as they deem
  appropriate
• Social re-integration encouraged
• Focus on simplicity and cooperation
• Social and peer pressure will deter deviance

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Family Marriage

• Family unit absolved
• Marriage strictly a personal commitment
• Children raised in community facilities, by
  professionally trained specialists
• Parents may have limited involvement
• Emphasis on community relationships
• Solves family-less and nepotism problems
• Encourages cooperation and social skills

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Religion

• Abolition of all religious activity
• Religion taught as a primitive tradition of
  Earth
• Antitheism to be indoctrinated at an early age
• Religion screened out for travelers from Earth

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Urban Design filler
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Mitigating Catastrophe

• Redundancy of critical systems
• Limited robotic intelligence
• Constant drug test devices (CDTDs)
• Subterranean shelter with trains
• Multiple-dome initiative
• Observatories with defensive modules
• Safe-haven lockdown of residence

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Water

• Where Its At
• and
• How We Get It

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Mars Not A Blue Planet
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Ice on the Martian Surface
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Dispersion of Hydrogen on the Martian Surface
Gamma Ray Spectrogram Image Centered on the North
Pole
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A I R
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A I R
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Creating Air To Breath Step One
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Creating Air to Breath Step Two
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Creating Air to Breath Step 3
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Food
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The Martian Diet

• Vegetarian
• No Meat
• Very healthy
• Very Plentiful

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How Food Is Produced

• Greenhouse domes
• Separate from the main dome
• Four separate greenhouse domes
• Approximately 2-3 km in diameter
• Connected to main dome with underground tunnels
  and surface tubes

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Food Production

• Environment of the greenhouse domes
• CO2 rich
• Pressure same as main dome 5psi
• Rich Mars soil

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How food is produced

• Genetic engineering
• Minimize the need for sunlight
• Better crops
• New types of crops
• More nutritious
• Elimination of the need for added fertilizer

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Types Of Crops

• Cabbage
• Spinach
• Radish
• Onion
• Carrot
• Chard
• Tomato
• Lettuce

• Legumes
• Potatoes
• Wheat
• Soybean
• Mushrooms
• Genetically engineered crops unique to Mars

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Preparation Of Foods

• Prepared by Robots
• Only way to satisfy the food wants of colony
• New cuisine developed - Mars Cuisine

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Work And Economics
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Work

• Main type of work is scientific
• Majority of the work force is engineers,
  scientist, and technicians

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Type Of Work

• Humans primarily do research and development
• Robots do most of the labor and produce most of
  the goods needed
• Humans secondary job is supervision and support
  of robots
• Work only takes up fraction of time

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Specialized Fields of Work

• Agriculture scientist
• Robotic technicians
• Computer programmers
• Engineers- robotic, mechanical, electrical, nano,
  etc.

• Sociologist
• Psychologist
• Astronomers
• Physicists
• Etc

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Economics

• No money
• No private industry
• As much as possible, we rely on in-situ resource
  production

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What is produced

• Decided by consensus
• - Council of six
• Based on demands of the settlement

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Distribution of Goods

• Air, Food, and Water freely available
• Other necessities also provided as needed
• Minimal difference in distribution of goods
• - Incentives
• C4- Learn to fly
• C5- Personal robots

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Communication On Mars
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Satellite Systems

• Approximately 100 satellites
• Low orbiting
• High Orbiting
• High speed / real-time data transmission

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Technologies Of Personal Communication Systems

• Nanotechnology
• Cybernetics

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Personal Communication Systems

• Very small and virtually unseen
• Everyone has one
• Always connected

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What Communication Is Like

• Less face to face communication
• Real-time

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How Communication Effects Information

• Storage and Access To Information
• Personal Information
• Community Information
• Information Transparency
• Dissemination of Information

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Artificial Intelligence and Robots
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Artificial Intelligence

• No Artificial Intelligence
• defined as sentient and capable of experiencing
  emotion
• Robots have LRI- Limited Robotic Intelligence
• Operate with minimal human interference
• Can learn only within programmed parameters

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Interacting with Robots

• Interact via voice commands
• Commanded primarily through personal
  communication system

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Community Robots

• Robot stations around the dome
• Sufficient number of robots for entire community
• Can be used by anyone
• Human presence necessary for robot to perform
  tasks
• Returns to stations after done using

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Personal Robots

• Available to C5/ up
• Personal Robots can perform tasks without your
  presence
• Personalized to suit ones needs
• Acts as personal database storage

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Use of Robots

• Agriculture
• Cooking
• Dome repair and maintenance
• Education
• Manufacturing
• Resource mining
• Personal assistants
• Scientific experiments

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Cybernetics

• Cybernetics The utilization of machines and
  technologies on or inside the human body in order
  to grant the user certain capabilities or enhance
  the value of daily life
• Cyborg from the phrase cybernetic organism, an
  organism that has been altered from its original
  state through the implantation of machines and
  artificial materials.
• Modify humans to fit the environment

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Cybernetics

• Muscle Grafting
• Genetically engineered muscle tissue is grafted
  into existing muscle, resulting in increased
  strength and capability.
• Employed by athletes, excavators, and those who
  work in dangerous or demanding environments

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Cybernetic Adaptation

• Skeletal and muscular modifications enhance human
  physiology, counteracting adverse gravitational
  environments
• Work in harsh Martian environment
• Recreational applications

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Cybernetics R D

• Cyber Adaptations
• - Corneal implants
• - Microprocessors that function in conjunction
  with the brain, networking device that
  enables telepathic communication with other
  networked cyborgs.
• Cyborgs are capable of making increasingly fast
  calculations and can communicate instantly with
  others from any location within the network.

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Cybernetic R D

• Neurotek
• Artificial increase in myelination (insulation)
  of key neurons to increase the speed at which
  signals are carried out.
• The addition or replacement of major nerve
  bundles with small fiber optic cables which carry
  out nerve impulses at the speed of light.
• Benefits computer-like precision to motor
  coordination such as quicker reflexes and better
  hand-eye coordination

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Cybernetic R D

• Nanotech skeletal enhancement
• Muscle development
• Muscle Grafting
• Genetically engineered muscle tissue is grafted
  into existing muscle, resulting in increased
  strength and capability.
• Employed by athletes, excavators, and those who
  work in dangerous or demanding environments

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Nanotechnology

• Rearrange atoms
• Products
• Precision and complex products/ material
• -Quantum computers
• -nanorobots
• Extended life w/ modules/systems replicate body
  functions
• New types of molecules and mechanics

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• Uses
• Cleaning unwanted chemical by-products and
  pollution
• Medical destroy virus, cancer cells, repair
  damage
• Precautions
• Over replication

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Waste

• Old Materials
• Recycled, Reprocessed in Recycling Centers
• Organic Waste
• Aquatic plants to purify wastewater
• Organic solids to be used as fertilizer or
  compost
• Recycled water to be reused in agri/ fuel
• Industrial Waste
• Broken/converted into simple chemical/ molecular
  components using nanorobots.
• Recycle and reuse chemicals

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Solar Technology

• Uses
• Generator/ power supply
• -Small vehicles inside and outside dome
• -Space suits

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Nuclear Fusion

• Isotopes collide and fuse together while
  releasing high energy neutrons
• 50/50 ratio deuterium and tritium as fuel in
  nuclear reactor
• Methods to heat
• Compress fuel in piston
• Force external electric current through it
• Bombard fuel w/ hi energy neutral particles
• Supply power from microwaves or lasers

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• Confinement
• Magnetic bottle
• Advantages
• No isolation of environment for geological time
  span or evacuation
• Helium

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• Nuclear reactor

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Flywheel Technology

• Rotor high mass cylinder made from carbon, glass
  fiber composite material.
• Specifications
• -10X longer than battery storage
• -no hazardous chemicals
• -tolerate temp
• -less maintenance
• -less mass/dense

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• Safety
• Welded shut w/ use of composite materials for
  easier containment

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Fuel Cell Technology

• Polymer Electrolyte Membrane or Proton Exchange
  Membrane (PEM)
• Small, light, high power density
• Operates at low temperatures
• Responsive to change in power requirements

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• Use only hydrogen, oxygen from air/water
• Less wear b/c low temp
• Platinum/ ruthenium catalysts b/c more resistant
  to CO
• Could use ethanol, methanol, natural gas
• Hydrogen/ oxygen separated by electrolyzer in
  water
• 1 gallon H2O 1gallon of gasoline
• Safety
• By-product water/nitrogen
• H2, O easily diluted

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• Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
• Hard, non-porous ceramic electrolyte
• 50-60 converted electricity
• Operates at hi temp
• Capture utilize system waste heat (co-generation)
  lead to 80-85 efficiency
• Sulfur/CO resistant
• Fuel source CO2 made from hydro and carbon

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Transportation

• For interdome mass transit we have elected to use
  subterranean mag-lev technology.
• Rover vehicles are used for transportation
  outside the dome.
• Interplanetary travel is conducted via large
  transport ships powered by nuclear propulsion
  technology.

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Interdome Transportation

• Interdome transportation system facilitates the
  mass movement of people.
• This is vital in the event of catastrophic damage
  to the dome.

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Intradome Transportation

• Bicycles
• Segway Human Intradome Transporters
• Bipedal
• Wheelchairs

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Segway Human Transport
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Transporting Goods

• Mag-lev trains are used to transport goods and
  materials.
• Trains are underground to allow for easy
  maintenance and repair (in an enclosed sealed off
  tunnel)
• Mag-lev trains are extremely efficient, the only
  friction they encounter is from the air.

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Recreation

• The Martian environment allows for the
  development of innovative types of recreation.
• Some forms of recreation have been imported and
  modified from Earth forms.

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Places for Recreation

• There are a multitude of places in which we enjoy
  ourselves
• Zero-G orbital recreation center
• Virtual reality palaces
• Inner- and outer-dome recreational centers
• Art studios

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The Zero-G Orbiting Play House

• There is a recreation center orbiting Mars that
  provides a zero-gravity play zone.
• Admission into this recreation center requires
  minimum social class of C-3

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Virtual Reality

• The next wave of computer-aided recreation has
  arrived. It provides fully-immersive and
  customizable virtual experiences.
• Any reality can be constructed, imagination is
  the only limit.
• Provides an outlet for the deves.