Lets say by some miracle we get a colony up and running on mars or something within the next 50 years. What career choices should someone make now to get the best chance of being selected then?
What career paths would give someone the greatest chance of being selected to colonize space?
Leo Evans
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Benjamin Ward
Any engineering you cuck
Wyatt Gomez
>marine engineering
>Systems engineering
>Civil engineering
>Manufacturing engineering
>Naval engineering
>Software engineering
Yeah no.
Chase Baker
Anything related to using as few resources as possible as efficiently as possible. I'd recommend biology and food production broadly with that goal in mind, because most research in that field assumes massive inputs of given resources are available. Even if they're working on water efficiency, it's still on the scale of millions and billions of gallons. Start working on maximizing water efficiency in a closed loop system of 1000 gallons or something and you should be good.
Caleb Perry
A doctor.
Jackson Green
Software engineering will most certainly have a role to play in exploration and colonization-related spacecraft. It's going to be lower level than what the majority of mooks today know as "software engineering", constricting (embedded, no high level APIs to lean on), and far more complicated than what we deal with on earth (radiation hardening), but it'll play a pivotal role.
What it really means is that somewhere on the order of
Chase Adams
Join the Airforce and then go to med school.
You think I'm trolling but I'm not, you'd probably have an easier chance of being selected via this path than majoring in astrophysics at some shitty state school.
Alexander Morales
Or you just send an electrical engineer instead of trying to learn code monkeys stuff they're too stupid to understand.
Evan Adams
Why would anyone bother with software engineers for those tasks? Electronics engineers are better suited for them. You know, EEs don't just fuck with wires.
Camden Murphy
This. EEs nowadays don't fuck with just the wires.
Also, it's a lot easier to teach an EE the CS stuff rather than the other way around.
Ethan Martinez
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Evan Moore
An even balance of EE:SE can be incredibly beneficial if you're hiring engineers and not monkeys. As an example many of the upgrades SpaceX has performed on their Falcon 9 rockets have been software upgrades, which is great because it means critical bugs aren't physical, immutable flaws that just have to be lived with until the next round of manufacturing.
Software is leaned on far too heavily across all fields today though, I agree with that much. Things could be remarkably more efficient with just a little more hardware in the mix.
Christopher Foster
>A doctor.
And a geologist (perhaps rather called areologist since we are talking about Mars). A colony will need resources and need to know what resources are out there.
Alexander Thomas
>Engineers, either mechanical, electrical, or aerospace most likely
>Doctors and medical scientists/biologists
>geologists
>Communications equipment
>Space launch operations (think of some leadership position probably from the AF or former astronauts who have lead missions)
If you're thinking of a colony the size of something like the movie the Martian had, as few as possible with the most skills.
Jack Cox
But going that route won't give OP the best chance they want. There are a thousand excellent geologists, and a lot of them are looking for the same stuff on Earth that we'd look for on Mars, like water, so the advantages of specialization are reduced. It's too saturated to give good odds.
Isaac Foster
Planetary Geology
Elijah Bell
>What career choices should someone make now to get the best chance of being selected then?
Being a suicidal retard would help.
Ryan Ramirez
Get fit, join the air force and go to engineering or med school so this basically is the only sensible reply in this thread. LMAO at all you fat neckbeards who think simply being smart is enough to be a spaceman.
Grayson Adams
>There are a thousand excellent geologists
There are indeed thousands of excellent of any kind, be it geologists, physicists, medical doctors etc.
With competition like this I guess it is fair to assume you will need a PhD to be part of the competition. And have excellent health and excellent vision.
Landon Green
Not civil. Those guys are gonna be the first engineers to get automated
Benjamin Cruz
Why not just put a bunch of NEETS for space colonization. They are already used to living in small spaces for extended periods of time.
Thomas Reyes
That are however not used to cooperation.
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