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Colonization Of Mars Practically Impossible, Says Greek-American Space
Expert
By
Paula Tsoni
February 11, 2023
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Dr Stamatios Krimigis in a TV interview with Nikos Chazinikolaou on Ant1 TV. Colonization Of Mars Practically Impossible, Says Greek-American Space
Expert Dr Stamatios Krimigis in a TV interview with Nikos Chazinikolaou
on Ant1 TV. Credit: Ant1News.gr
Greek-American space exploration scientist Dr Stamatios Krimigis told a
TV interview on Thursday that the colonization of Mars is practically impossible, at least for the next 200 years.
Speaking to journalist Nikos Chatzinikolaou on Greek private network
Ant1 TV, Dr Krimigis opined that Elon Musk, a passionate advocate of the colonization of Mars, hasn’t realized the actual difficulties of such a venture.
“Manned missions for visit and exploration, that is something else, but colonization, certainly not,” the acclaimed space expert said.
SpaceX, the rocket company co-founded by Elon Musk in 2002, has made it
an ultimate goal to send manned flights to Mars and eventually colonize
the Red Planet.
The billionaire businessman stated recently that a manned mission to
Mars could happen as early as 2029 when asked on Twitter.
Colonization of Mars not possible “in Elon Musk’s era”
This isn’t the first time that the Greek space exploration scientist
doubts the feasibility of human colonization of Mars. In a previous
interview with AMNA in spring 2022, he had called plans of a human
settlement on Mars a distant dream.
Dr Krimigis, who has a PHD in the ways that particles are diffused
during solar explosions, now went into more detail and explained to
Greek talk show host Chatzinikolaou that humans on Mars would be
completely unprotected in the event of a solar explosion due to the lack
of magnetic fields and an atmosphere on the Red Planet.
If they were to colonize Mars, humans would need shelters dug at least
one metre underground to protect themselves from such events, he added.
And while that could perhaps be feasible in 200 years from today, it
will not be so “in Elon Musk’s era.”
He does believe though that a manned mission to Mars could materialize
in the next decade.
Krimigis’s participation in space exploration programs
Born on the island of Chios, Dr Krimigis is a member of the
International Academy of Astronautics, where he serves on the Board of Trustees, per NASA.
He has built instruments that have flown to seven of the nine planets,
while he has published over 350 papers in journals and books.
In addition, Dr Krimigis has contributed to many of the United States’ unmanned space exploration programs of the Solar System and beyond, and
in 1999, the International Astronomical Union named the asteroid 8323
Krimigis (previously 1979 UH) in his honor, according to Wikipedia.
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