You have 2 options. If you believe that a "god" designed us, then any other life forms that god created might be completely different than us.
But, if you believe we evolved from bacteria (and we behave like bacteria sometimes) then the bi-pedal model is very likely. Look how complicated we are. Look at your hands and feet, all those bones and all in instant contact with your brain. This took millions of years.
So, I suspect that our out-planet brothers and sisters are fairly similar in construction with adjustments for their gravity level. We may be ugly, but our design is quite clever and explicable.
Now, are there hive-minds and energy-beings. I sure hope so but likely everyone is just as wonderfully simple and complex as we are. And I think there are lots of them, in various tages of development. In 1000 years, we won't look like we do now but the principle will remain the same.
I suppose. I could be wrong.
Now, if this is a god design, we might find terrific variances since god would not want all its eggs in our one basket.
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Yeah, look at those morons who went to the moon. And lived to tell about it.
It';s more like population expansion. Now, does the universe need more humans? I guess that's a POV thing.
Man's trips to the Moon were on TV and this will also be televised and recorded.
How to experience life on Mars.
1. Go in your house or apartment.
2. Stay there.
You are now experiencing living on a station in Mars.
To experience the trip, piles lots of food and water in a walk-in closet with a porta potty and potty bags. Go stay in it for 6 months. You are now traveling to Mars. Nothing is more exciting that a total void. :lol:
It is amazing for anyone to actually think that while we can't collectively manage earth, we could do so on a barren and atmosphere-less distant planet.
No one has given a reason, any purpose, to putting a station on Mars. Why not a station in a deep ocean trench instead?
How to experience life on Mars.
1. Go in your house or apartment.
2. Stay there.
You are now experiencing living on a station in Mars.
To experience the trip, piles lots of food and water in a walk-in closet with a porta potty and potty bags. Go stay in it for 6 months. You are now traveling to Mars. Nothing is more exciting that a total void. :lol:
It is amazing for anyone to actually think that while we can't collectively manage earth, we could do so on a barren and atmosphere-less distant planet.
No one has given a reason, any purpose, to putting a station on Mars. Why not a station in a deep ocean trench instead?
Whether you believe it or not, this will likely happen.
Wait and see.
You are really trying to compare the moon and mars?
Didn't your OP say it was a one way trip?
That would mean the first people going there would have to build living quarters with no resources and no air.
I think that is the definition of stupid.
Benefits of Space Exploration
5 Spinoffs from the Hubble Space Telescope
What are the benefits of space exploration
I can just keeping going down the line of google links to the benefits. Energy (fusion tech), electronics (small computer chips), medical (artificial heart), physics (required equations for such travel), navigation (GPS), emergency tech (jaws of life), and the list goes ON and ON and ON. What could be gained from traveling and colonizing other planets? We have no ******* clue. The historic results of our previous endeavors can be used to predict the outcome of future possible gains: such a wide variety of fields that have experienced gains that the only certainty we have is uncertainty in what fields will grow from future exploration.
Off the top of my head? What could we gain in sustainable technology? Well I would think an extraterrestrial base that could sustain life would benefit Earth in regards to MANY forms of sustainable products: food, water, energy. We could gain long distance communication technologies that we didn't know existed. Better fuel sources from research into more efficient systems. Better and longer lasting wires, batteries, smaller chips, medical technology that can sustain life, and I mean the list goes ON and ON and ON.
It is not my OP. Nor did I suggest that people just go there unequipped. I discussed terraforming earlier in the thread and got clled stupid for that.
So, some of us are more visionary than others. That doesn't make any of us bad. But to go to Mars will require a huge investment and planning. Christopher Columbus in space.
Why assume no resources and no air provided for? Are you just looking for an opportunity to be insulting? If so, why?
How to experience life on Mars.
1. Go in your house or apartment.
2. Stay there.
You are now experiencing living on a station in Mars.
To experience the trip, piles lots of food and water in a walk-in closet with a porta potty and potty bags. Go stay in it for 6 months. You are now traveling to Mars. Nothing is more exciting that a total void. :lol:
It is amazing for anyone to actually think that while we can't collectively manage earth, we could do so on a barren and atmosphere-less distant planet.
No one has given a reason, any purpose, to putting a station on Mars. Why not a station in a deep ocean trench instead?
I copied this:
Here are four examples of what it would take to send a canister about the size of a Shuttle payload (or a school bus) past our nearest neighboring star...
You have to understand what this will entail.
There is no breathable air on Mars so it has to come from somewhere. Everything has a weight to it in the space ship.
We are nowhere near this and won't be for a long time to come.
Please tell that to President Obama.
Let me stop you right there.
You are shifting the focus. The title of this thread said Mars. "Would you take a one way trip to Mars"
Do you see? MARS. Why are you trying to shift the focus? Come on joko. You know this isn't about going to another system. This is about MARS. PLEASE refrain from changing the subject to other systems.
I just think it's really funny that anyone discusses this as other than a pun-contest.
That it'd be great to have go on the most interesting vacation - for which you get on a train you can't get off of and will die on - but your children will live - and die on it to. Generation after generation of children live, grow old and die on that train. Finally 900 years later, finally arriving - no way back. Amazingly, found an inhabitable planet? GREAT - 900 years to find land to plow up and farm.
THAT is the ultimate travel plans to some people. To die on a train traveling thru a void they can never get off of and will die on.
We can't even figure how to have a government that can make a budget for this one year! A 900 year plan? Ain't gonna happen.
You have to understand what this will entail.
There is no breathable air on Mars so it has to come from somewhere. Everything has a weight to it in the space ship.
We are nowhere near this and won't be for a long time to come.
No, actually I think you may be trying to describe a Hubble sphere or something.No, when used in terms of science, "universe" has a specific and limited meaning. It is a sphere expanding outward from a single central point, commonly referred to as the point of the "big bang."
A common term for infinity is "the cosmos."
OK, Mars. Name anything a station on Mars can do that a probe can't? Anything at all.
Scientists stopped sending manned probes in deep oceans 5 decades ago. They don't send manned probes down into ancient ice. We don't send manned probes to the Moon for about 5 decades. All those could be done. Robotic probes do just fine. Why manually steer a machine there when you can remotely steer it from here?
SO... the reason to send a manned probe to Mars, rather than a robotic one is?
Mars is a big, rich planet. A great adventure. Unknown possibilities. A stepping stone for future FTL travel. Mars is only 35 million miles away from here.
In your lifetime, you will drive almost a million miles. By car. So, by rocketship, Mars is just down the road.