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They would need to bring professional people I reckon, or have an extremely goddamn good space ship that is unprofessional/idiot compatible. I'd be up for going to Mars though, I'd bring suicide pills just in case something goes wrong but it'd be an amazing experience even if we all starve to death, go drifting into space, the ship blows up or some crazy stuff like that. People don't actually give enough credit to how amazing and unexplored Mars is, sure we've sent robots there before (Some Asian country did I think?) but there are large parts of it that could be studied in greater depth and complexity. Also I like that this would be privately funded, cause the US government and pretty much the whole world are already morons who are dealing with an economic crisis and we only have a short amount of time until the Earth becomes unlivable and we need to do more space research. | |
I understand the enthusiasm, but I don't think these people understand the gravity (ho,ho) of being stuck on Mars, of all places. | |
It wouldn't be too bad if they could have internet access; it would eliminate the possibility of extreme boredom and the feeling of disconnection. | |
So...Anyone can signup? Where do I sign in?! OT: Sending unqualified people into space? Yeah i can't see that failing. | |
well if NASA would ever want to do something similair in the near future there wouldnt be a shortatge of volunteers | |
"Imagine a world without animal cruelty: Mars! Because where there are no animals, no-one can be cruel to them." | |
And with no breathable atmosphere, water and its unlikely they will be able to prouce food. How long will they last ? Now unless they have people who can somehow get an atmosphere that people can survive in to go to mars, its pretty much pople joining to commit suicide in a cool way (seriously you get zero gravity, it has an upside, until you run out of air/food/water and die). | |
mmm social darwinism at work me thinks XD id say let them go. Whats the best that can happen? they succeed and establish an actual mars colony? the worst is they all die. | |
... Secondly, that oxygen generator will more than likely be a plant of some sort. | |
A very important question: will there be internet on mars? | |
You don't need a backup plan. You just need plenty of expendable assets. And if we can get 400 idiots today, I guarantee we can get 400 idiots tomorrow. Now all we need is an idiot with far, far too much money to fund the venture. | |
Pretty funny, but gov'ts better pull their heads out (ie stop bickering and fighting over the coins tossed by their corporate overlords) & consider what may happen if Mars, or any other body in our solar system, is reached by human expeditions that are NOT representative of humanity but rather, private or corporate interests. There's a reason nobody can own Antarctica or the moon. | |
and when they get to mars they awaken the evil aliens and have t stop them before they destroy them and the earth hmmmm yes that would be good i think | |
Where do I sign up? | |
Ctrl F: Ass *Excellent... allow me...* "Get your ass to Mars." | |
Hey there mister animal rights extremist, how would you liek to live in a world where no animals are beeing mistreated, and no-one eats real meat? Should be easy to sell the idea to them. | |
And send it to the sun. | |
Well the idea of a space elevator would be to make getting materials (and people) into space for cheaper than now. Now, you have to strap anything you want into space to a few thousand gallons of various chemicals and shoot it into space at insanely fast speeds. Those resourses are very expensive and you can only take up a few people because of that. If you made a space elevator, it would be much less expensive. You have to worry about meteor strikes and other debris in space all the time. The international space station is coated with 18 inches of kevlar for that reason. Yes, the elevator would be torn away if the space station left a geosynchronus orbit. So you wouldn't do that for that exact reason. If you are in a geosynchronus orbit, you are always above the same position on earth. So if you don't change your orbit, you can make a shaft that goes down to earth for an elevator. | |
Imagine the news in 20 years: "On the lighter side of the news, 400 of the would be martian colonists have all died. Early reports indicate suicide, since the only thing they brought for entertainment were copies of Dynasty Warriors and Jersey Shore seasons 1-42. Next, Sports..." | |
I would like to sign up the following list of people: | |
You haven't tried my tea! My tea is so good all my friends make me make them tea :D | |
Well this is one way of lowering the population... | |
Some things in life are worth dying for to some, and this is one of them. I wouldn't go though, no hot blue alien chicks :( | |
Well what did they expect? There was hardly likely to be a long line of unemployed astronauts... Besides, couldn't they train the candidates? Oh, wait sorry it's modern corporations so they expect everyone to already have experience even though they can't get the experience without being given a job, my bad. | |
i for one applaud this, they know what the risk is and if they still want to go ahead who are we to stop them? besides, most of the worlds greatest explorers were insane to some degree, you have to be to try and be the first to go to the places they went (ie: antarctica, everest, i could go on) and those explorers weren't exactly qualified either so its not like there isn't a precedent | |
But if the water filtration unit breaks, then we're all going to get infected by a living water organism and try to return to Earth to infect the whole planet! :< Personally, I'd rather just freeze myself for a hundred years and wait until there's a more viable form of inter-planetary travel. | |
To the story poster. Well aren't you full of poison. Yes, it is not a great idea to send idiots to Mars. But your response to their enthusiasm for this mission is to call the volunteers shmucks. You have issues.... | |
Shouldn't we be trying this with the moon first? I'm just saying.. EDIT: Also I don't understand the space elevator, the bit that it would be attached to is in space, there isn't anything holding it up there, it's just floating about. The moment that you stick a 5 ton carriage onto the cable attached to it and start pulling your way up, you're gonna pull your space station down to the planet no? Oh, Unless the thing in space is firing thrusters to keep itself in the same position the whole time, but then surely that's almost the same as using thrusters to send a ship up.. meh. | |
Welcome to Mars! Here's your sledgehammer. Thanks for working with Ultor! | |
I'd be much more concerned about dying from radiation poisoning on Mars, since it doesn't have the Van Allen Belts to protect my pasty white ass from all that radiation the sun launches out every time there is a solar flare or solar prominence. And no matter how much of a tan I get, my ass is still pasty white when it comes to radiation. | |
Like things tend to do, yeah. | |
He said "something cool". That aside, I actually LIKE that idea a lot. So then, in a couple (read: A LOT) years from now on, we will have Mars colony, who can then declare itself idependent, which starts a war that will lead to incredible bloodshed and ultimatly the invention of the deep-fried twinkie. On second thought..... letīs not do this. | |
Under qualified? What a stupid and narrow minded thing to say. Educate them! Then they'll be qualified. | |
you could make a reality show from this! the loser gets thrown out of the nearest airlock! we can call it: Big Brother NASA edition! | |
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