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One way trip to Mars

Would you take a one way trip to Mars

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    Votes: 16 32.7%
  • Are you freamin insane?

    Votes: 33 67.3%

  • Total voters
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I'm sure there are a few people in this forum that wish I would sign up for this but really I just can't imagine. Apparently there is no shortage of applicants though. Beats the hell outa me why.


"An ambitious project that aims to send volunteers on a one-way trip to Mars unveiled plans for the first private unmanned mission to the Red Planet Tuesday, a robotic vanguard to human colonization that will launch in 2018.

Mars One
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invited anyone over age 18 to apply to be an astronaut. About 165,000 people answered the first call for applications, which closed at the end of August. There will be four rounds of selection before the finalists are chosen.


Mars One unveils first stage of plan to colonize Red Planet | Fox News


EDIT: FREAKIN insane :lol:
 
I don't think I would do it, but human colonization on other worlds is a very important venture. I support this endeavor wholeheartedly and wish them all the luck in the world.
 
I'm sure there are a few people in this forum that wish I would sign up for this but really I just can't imagine. Apparently there is no shortage of applicants though. Beats the hell outa me why.


"An ambitious project that aims to send volunteers on a one-way trip to Mars unveiled plans for the first private unmanned mission to the Red Planet Tuesday, a robotic vanguard to human colonization that will launch in 2018.

Mars One
external-link.png
invited anyone over age 18 to apply to be an astronaut. About 165,000 people answered the first call for applications, which closed at the end of August. There will be four rounds of selection before the finalists are chosen.


Mars One unveils first stage of plan to colonize Red Planet | Fox News

Someone has to go first. We're using this planet up pretty fast. Mars is a high potential future home for humankind. Not so long ago, "going West" in America was a big adventure. Now, you can get cell service in the heart of the African jungle.

Progress.
 
Can I sign my wife up?

Jk
 
As long as I have the internet for Debate Politics/etc. and Satellite TV for sports/etc.
 
If I had no family commitments? Yes, I'd go.
 
Someone has to go first. We're using this planet up pretty fast. Mars is a high potential future home for humankind. Not so long ago, "going West" in America was a big adventure. Now, you can get cell service in the heart of the African jungle.

Progress.

Yeah but would you go?
 
Won't happen for many many decades, if at all.
 
Yeah but would you go?

Well, at my age - no. But when I was young, I went all over the world by myself seeking fame and fortune. I lived in Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Thailand before they got rich and while the wars were still on. So, yes, I very well might have but of course its easy to say that since I don't have to do it so I might be full of ****.

But I'm a lifelong Sci-Fi guy and I used to love adventure in my fearless youth.
 
I doubt that very much.


It could be done. Could have been done some time ago actually. Main problem is how expensive it would be using current tech. Risks would be considerable too.
 
It could be done. Could have been done some time ago actually. Main problem is how expensive it would be using current tech. Risks would be considerable too.

From what everyone else had been saying, their timetable is beyond ambitious. Let alone the risks.
 
A one-way trip?

Not sure about a one way trip, but we could definitely get there and come back.

The biggest problem would be food and water, obviously. It would take some great tech advances, but hell, we went to the moon in under a decade. I believe we as a species have the grasp to do this within a reasonable amount of time. It's all about having the will to do this though, that's the big challenge.
 
We should make Obama the king of mars and get him up there to set stuff up ASAP!
 
I disagree, we have the tech to do it. Hopefully the will to do it will make it possible.

We might have the tech but we don't have a planet that can be colonized. Mars is dead and has been for a billion years. It is too far from the sun, its atmosphere has been mostly lost into space. We would be better off planning a trip to the nearest Star with a suitable planet.
 
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