Musk will launch Mars immigration in 2030? Expert: Most of them are gimmicks and will be difficult to realize within a hundred years

Although humans have not personally visited Mars yet and have only sent probes to the red planet, human fantasies are endless. As humans learn more and more about Mars, many scientists and even NASA have begun scientific exploration of immigrating to Mars.

The Mars Immigration Plan is the plan to immigrate to Mars and build a community on Mars, which Elon Musk, president and founder of SpaceX, revealed to the media for the first time. His long-term goal is to move humans from Earth to other planets and make the process safe and affordable. Musk said: "If we control the cost for each person to move to Mars to about US$2 million, we can create a large market. It is estimated that 10,000 to 20,000 people on the earth are willing to immigrate to other planets, and people do not have to scrimp to buy a house on the earth. The money saved can be used to move to space. "

Since the program launched global registration, more than 80,000 volunteers from hundreds of countries around the world have applied, including more than 10,000 applicants from China. name. Registration fees have exceeded US$1 million.

Recently, the American architectural design studio Abib released a design plan, planning to build an interstellar city on Mars that can accommodate 250,000 people, and will give the city a Chinese name—— "Nuwa". Alfredo Muzi, founder of Abib Studio, said: "This project will be officially launched in 2054 and is planned to be officially completed in 2100." On the same day, Musk also tweeted: "Less than 2030, SpaceX The fleet will reach Mars!”

In this regard, Gou Lijun, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that planetary mining and Mars immigration are more of a commercial promotion gimmick. In fact, to make it come true, the time and technology required would be difficult to achieve within a hundred or two hundred years.

So, can humans immigrate to Mars in the near future?

A team of five people from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used data from the Dutch Mars One space launch company to analyze the mathematical formulas for oxygen, food and technology needed for human colonization of Mars, and completed a 35-page report , believes that given the conditions on Mars and the limitations of existing human technology, the plan to colonize Mars is at least currently impossible.

The report said that if Mars is really colonized, the plants brought from the Earth can only produce an "unsafe" amount of oxygen, and the oxygen content will begin to be depleted in about two months. "Within about 68 days, The first death may occur".

If humans are to colonize Mars for the long term, new technologies will be needed, "some form of life support system will be required, a technology that has not yet been developed in spaceflight," the researchers said.

It can be seen that it is not easy to immigrate to Mars.