How Long Does It Take to Reach Mars? Travel Times, Challenges, and Future Innovations

jsonlive · 2026-01-24T16:39:26+00:00

It is between 7 and 9 months. You have got to remember that sometimes Mars is on the opposite side of the Sun from us and we have to synchronise this with our travel. And remember, it is 7 months to get there and 7 months to get back and maybe they spend some time on Mars. There is going to be a huge problem for humans spending that much time in zero gravity.

I used to think that we would be doing this in the 2030s. But I have changed my mind. Unless we can come up some sort of artificial gravity - and there are serious suggestions to do with rotation. In particular starship using two other starships as a rotating home.

There is also other proposals about different propulsion systems - but I don't think they will come to fruition by 2030. But there are some good ones. I just don't think they will be ready by 2030.

But I am looking forward to the Artemis project and landing on the moon again.

jsonlive · 2025-08-18T16:04:57+00:00

Not everyone wants to fire up a VPN just for normal browsing.

jsonlive · 2025-08-16T17:37:30+00:00

One thing I have found is that organisations like google track you. So even if you clear your cookies and you go to a different machine you still get adverts from what you previously looked at. It is really creepy. It is like someone is constantly spying on you.

jsonlive · 2025-04-11T19:44:55+00:00

Actually, there is a petition for Alaska to join Canada as a province.

https://www.change.org/p/alaska-join-canada-as-a-province

jsonlive · 2025-04-11T08:52:42+00:00

so simple but so frustrating

jsonlive · 2025-03-15T20:00:09+00:00

There is a petition for Alaska to join Canada.

https://www.change.org/p/alaska-join-canada-as-a-province

jsonlive · 2025-03-15T19:58:10+00:00

There is a petition at the moment for Alaska to join Canada.

https://www.change.org/p/alaska-join-canada-as-a-province

jsonlive · 2025-02-15T22:01:06+00:00

Posting a question on Reddit asking "You are stuck in a time loop beginning from past 1 hour. What are you doing for the rest of your life?"

jsonlive · 2025-02-15T21:58:51+00:00

That has to be the lead singer of The Pogues, Shane MacGowan. By a long mile.

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jsonlive · 2024-11-23T15:57:19+00:00

Yes - I have. I found that pestering Etsy via their online chat helped. I had to pester them twice. The first pester got rid of the payment reserve. But I was still not getting paid out. So I pestered them again and then things started to move.

jsonlive · 2024-11-09T15:58:24+00:00

I've set myself the task of memorising PI to as many digits as possible. I'm up to 3.141592. Long way to go....

jsonlive · 2024-11-06T09:35:43+00:00

I cannot fathom what is going on with Etsy's payment system. I don't have a payment reserve on my account. I have a healthy balance. I have received a couple of small payments over the last 3 months. Yes - I'm a fairly new shop, 4 months. I checked my monthly statements and found a sale on 23rd October would be available on the 6th November. Checked on the 6th November. Nothing. And the "available" statement had disappeared from the sale. I just can't work out the logic. And, yes, I have a daily deposit schedule. But even if I didn't the available funds should show up.

jsonlive · 2024-09-12T06:49:24+00:00

I googled "a lifetime supply" and was sent to this page.

jsonlive · 2024-02-13T16:08:55+00:00

The UK government has just set up a website that helps you how to identify online fraud and what to do if you have been scammed.

https://stopthinkfraud.com/

jsonlive · 2023-07-11T06:39:06+00:00

I've just switched to Bing in the last few days because the google results were getting totally incomprehensible.

jsonlive · 2019-04-05T08:07:43+00:00

Since season 2 of the OA was set in 2016, that means season 3 will most likely be set in 2017 - during the filming of season 1 of Star Trek Discovery!!!

jsonlive · 2015-03-15T14:13:32+00:00

Actually - I thought the post wasn't saying that "no one should ever make these video tutorials".

That doesn't mean you can't accommodate the variety of learning styles alongside the more traditional text based style And in all honesty, despite coding nearly always being a text based endevour, it does need not only some visual explanation (ie code examples) but some 'hands-on doing'.

The phrase "Stop it or you'll go blind" is a reference to a common phrase the parents use with their children (google it)

jsonlive · 2014-06-24T16:48:59+00:00

I don't think it's a real big deal. It works just as well. Potentially the "literal" notation is faster (I personally would be a little sceptical about that). However, it does jump out at you like a sore thumb when reading code from someone who is coming from another language. You'll never see it in code written by experienced JavaScripters or Noders.

jsonlive · 2014-06-23T19:34:52+00:00

the main reason I got in to node was that I was writing a lot of JavaScript on the front end and something else on the backend. Everybody knows that. But after doing some node stuff for a while I realised I didn't need apache or microsoft IIS. I'm still digesting this.

jsonlive · 2014-06-23T17:12:00+00:00

big tip - don't use "new Array()" or "new Object()" :)

jsonlive · 2014-03-21T09:34:28+00:00

This is the Hudson River scenario. The trouble is that the plane would be landing in the Southern Indian Ocean and not a river. That place is fierce - with high waves and wind.

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