Driven to MadnessCaptain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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And anyway, a "round trip of 18 months" is just plain wrong... since, if you took off as soon as you'd landed, you'd arrive back in Earth's orbit at the wrong time - Earth wouldn't be there. You'd have to stay on Mars till the alignment was right.
(, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 11:27, 1 reply)
Technically you could do it. The transfer orbit on one of the legs would be much less efficient, but I think that there was a mission profile proposed that had approximately 1 month on the Martian surface (near enough an instant turnaround). I think that they proposed using a Venus flyby to save fuel on the way back, but it would still have needed a lot more fuel than a normal transfer.
(, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 11:48, closed)
I accept your point, but a stay of one month still means more than 18 months total.
(, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:07, closed)
Very true.
(, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:21, closed)
...butis it the travel they're talking about solely? If so, and it takes 9 months to get there and 9 months to get back, then they are correct despite the length of the stay.
The narrator distinctly used the words 'round trip' so I guess this could be open to interpretation?
(, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:33, closed)
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