Private Enterprise- To mars

   HereForNow, you've got to check out what Bianca is posting in this thread:

VIMANAS USED QUICKSILVER.  Here's a link:

http://atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com/index.php/topic,1980.0.html

Mercury Vortex engines were apparently a electrical plasma propulsion system.  And apparently the design for the engine has been staring us in the face every time we go to a hospital or drug store.  (The symbol for the hypocratic oath, the two intertwineing snakes on the rod symbol)

Check it out.  Maybe we don't have to wait for the technology to be developed.  Maybe it's already been done, and we just have to reinvent it, LOL.