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One way trip to Mars

Would you take a one way trip to Mars

  • Sign me up

    Votes: 16 32.7%
  • Are you freamin insane?

    Votes: 33 67.3%

  • Total voters
    49
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:

If I wasn't such an old fart, I would be raring to go. This is something I have always dreamed about.
 
Thanks but trust me at 70, I have to check each morning to see if any of my body parts fell off during the night.
So now, my grand adventures are more inside my head than in real life. Fortunately, I'm a devoted reader and the right authors can get me inside their books and I can travel the universe while my mortal shell sits in the living room with a cat on my lap.




I know the feeling, I made 70 this last March myself.

40 years ago I might have signed up for this, but now I'll just try to live long enough to see it get going.

I'm not going to bet any money on this, but I do believe that it might happen.
 
If I wasn't such an old fart, I would be raring to go. This is something I have always dreamed about.

If reincarnation is possible, then I will go someday! It's been a long-held dream for me, too! :thumbs:
 
If reincarnation is possible, then I will go someday! It's been a long-held dream for me, too! :thumbs:

Mine too, it was a life long dream to go gallivanting all over the universe ever since I read my first Buck Rogers Comic book. I think back then they cost you a nickel. I loved those Buck Roger serials every Saturday afternoon at the towns movie theater with Buster Crabbe.
 
Oh it will be great all the liberals (like myself) can do whatever we want, we can make sure it's super diverse, lay around and do nothing all day but have sex and get free abortions as needed we would be the smartest nation in the universe no business no greed no hunger no jealousy no money and no work it's going to be the bestest utopia ever

You diehard Republicans are always up to some deception, eh? Who'd a thunk it?
 
Bullcrap.

By definition there is only one universe. Star clusters are merely parts of the universe.

Not a subscriber to the many worlds theory? I confess I'm skeptical myself but one can always hope for a life more fascinating than the one we get.
 
Someone has to take the leap and risk their lives. Won't be me, but I wish luck to whoever does. Still, I can't see anyone other than NASA landing on Mars in the next 20-25 years. Private space industry doesn't impress me. Though, I always see some people say NASA would have been there already if they had the federal funds and government support, but people say alot of things.
 
No, glad you aren't. Of the almost infinite directions science can pursue, you want to instead pursue fantasyland. The scientific theory of "wouldn't it be really super cool if..."

And when someone explains distances and how far it takes traveling in terms of light-year distances, you say, "yeah, yeah whatever, I'm not getting hung up on that. I mean, it really would be AWESOME if go to another planet like earth and ..."

Hey slick. You obviously aren't reading the topic.

You can blather on alllllll day about distances in light years. How far Planet X is, how far Pluto is for that matter. Or the other end of the galaxy.

The sad part is. We aren't talking about any of that. We are STILL talking about MARS. How many light years away is that? Oh. It isn't a light year away? It is 6 months flight time away. Oh.

A simple fact of science is that almost all of it is about: "wouldn't it be super neat if." I swear. The lack of imagination is staggering.
 
Not a subscriber to the many worlds theory? I confess I'm skeptical myself but one can always hope for a life more fascinating than the one we get.

I am not sure if we ever ran across life on another planet we would be able to recognize it as such. Who know what life would be based on out there, I am sure life can exist that isn't based on carbon. What about form or non-form, then there is space and time, perhaps it is all different to them. who really knows? Possibilities are infinite.
 
WHy do people always get so worked up about what other people are doing? I mean its not like anybody here is going to Mars or that it is your decision. If wealthy people want to privatize a Mars colony more power to them. It would be good entertainment.

I could see it happening and I can see the potential to make big bucks off of it. The residents a I am sure would be ambitious. Once they get a big enough working force things would pick up fast. ANd Mars having less gravity wouldnt necessarily mean a one way trip. But I do think that it would be wiser to start out on the Moon, the logistics would be simpler. And people could decide to go home if it didnt work out in the short term.


Actually it should go like this geocentric orbital station > Moon orbital station > Moon base > Mars orbital station > Mars base.
 
but be careful what you say there!

No one should have the right to say anything bad about Pres./king/God Obama. He is smarter then everyone and knows best for us.
 
WHy do people always get so worked up about what other people are doing? I mean its not like anybody here is going to Mars or that it is your decision. If wealthy people want to privatize a Mars colony more power to them. It would be good entertainment.

I could see it happening and I can see the potential to make big bucks off of it. The residents a I am sure would be ambitious. Once they get a big enough working force things would pick up fast. ANd Mars having less gravity wouldnt necessarily mean a one way trip. But I do think that it would be wiser to start out on the Moon, the logistics would be simpler. And people could decide to go home if it didnt work out in the short term.


Actually it should go like this geocentric orbital station > Moon orbital station > Moon base > Mars orbital station > Mars base.

I agree. 100%. Anyone with an issue about this is ignoring that it IS possible to focus our energies on multiple places at once. We have been, are still, and will continue to do so for a long time. Hell many recent discoveries in science have come from people doing crazy ass experiments in space, and that technology coming back to earth and helping mankind.
 
No one should have the right to say anything bad about Pres./king/God Obama. He is smarter then everyone and knows best for us.

He is at least smart enough to know the difference between then and than. ;)
 
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


EDIT: FREAKIN insane :lol:

Next reality show?
 
Say the word, and I can be packed and ready to go by 0500 tomorrow morning. :mrgreen:

Why would you need to pack anything other than your best suit?
 
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.

So this is a veiled attempted at population control?

Get rid of the stupid people first?

I could go for that.
 
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.

It is not about the destination but the journey.

That is because once you get there you are dead.
 
From what everyone else had been saying, their timetable is beyond ambitious. Let alone the risks.

Everybody going knows they are going to die, hence one way trip.

What risks would matter?
 
I am not sure if we ever ran across life on another planet we would be able to recognize it as such. Who know what life would be based on out there, I am sure life can exist that isn't based on carbon. What about form or non-form, then there is space and time, perhaps it is all different to them. who really knows? Possibilities are infinite.

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.

Suggested reading on this topic: Amazon.com: Midnight at the Well of Souls (Audible Audio Edition): Jack L. Chalker, Peter Macon: Books
 
There is nothing there.
That is an honest and accurate statement.
The only thing that can be said for mars is that it is not here. You would need to bring everything with you to live, food, water, air, fuel, shielding from radiation, cosmic dust and micro meteorites.
"Terraforming " is an entertaining sci-fi pipe dream... virtually impossible.

Don't be so negative though.

It is a great place to send stupid people.
 
So this is a veiled attempted at population control?

Get rid of the stupid people first?

I could go for that.

It is not about the destination but the journey.

That is because once you get there you are dead.

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.
 
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?
 
Think of living the rest of your life in a mobile home in the middle of the most horrible desolate and hot region on earth that you never, ever can leave. It's worse on Mars.

Any time they have tried to have humans in a small group live in a small space (cave, arboretum), they all quit within weeks.

Well yes there is that human nature thing.

They will just have to forget about that.
 
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