Ovi magazine; Tuesday September 12th, 2023

The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday September 12th, 2023

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Establishing a human colony on planet Mars by Joseph Gatt

Earth is mostly oxygen and hydrogen when Mars is mostly Carbon Dioxide. So, if you were to settle on Mars, that would be the equivalent of trying to breathe in a smoke-filled room. Not the cigarette-smoke filled room, but a room where it’s all smoke and no oxygen. You couldn’t breathe.

To set up a colony on Mars, we would have to find a way to create an “oxygen and hydrogen” space on a planet where the air is 95% carbon dioxide.

How do you do that? Well there are science fiction novels and movies like Total Recall where the idea is to sett up a very large walled space on Mars, a thick wall where the carbon dioxide can’t filter in, and where the oxygen and hydrogen molecules keep reproducing, while absorbing the carbon dioxide that we humans exhale.

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Dear Grandpa #poem by George Cassidy Payne

“I never met you
You died by gunshot
Was it you who
pulled the trigger?”

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Tang & Ram #71 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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Ovi magazine; Thursday May 11th, 2023

The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday May 11th, 2023

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Perhaps Not Yet Mars by Jan Sand

As a kid back in the 1930’s I was fascinated by the literature of H. G. Wells. Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and the many others who described the possible adventures of travelling off this planet to spread human civilization elsewhere in this solar system and beyond. Actually seeing the initial phases of this possibility in my lifetime seemed impossibly remote in those early days, but the technologies post WWII moved very quickly to edge into actuality towards realizing what might be needed towards the first primitive steps in that fantasy.

As with much in the development of human technology, initial funding for rapid advance in the totally new required generous funding from military possibilities and space venturing was no exception.  This century has finally seen the growth of several civilian firms invading the technological field of space in supplementing the several governmental efforts in satellite launches and the necessary machineries of maintaining space stations and sending probes throughout our solar system and beyond. Elaborate plans and initial technology is moving along to establish bases on our Moon and to Mars but making that a profitable exercise is mainly theoretical since the financial requirements are immense and the unknown dangers of human space habitation can be quite severe and very difficult to ensure routine safety.

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Discerning #poem by Saloni Kaul

“Speaking up for others is grand, worthy and noble,
Indeed high public speaking in itself is quite an art!
How they in taking the part of others, feat or foible,
Wheedle, cajole, aim to convince heart or tilt cart!”

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Screws & Chips #60 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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