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Anyone Volunteering for a One Way Trip to Mars?

DrewPaul

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It will be extremely difficult to get even a one way trip to Mars. The odds of just getting to Mars and successfully landing are foreboding. I doubt NASA will launch such a mission without better than even odds. If they do make it, its where they will die. Before they can attempt it, they have to find out if there is any water in the lava tube caves and throughly explore them. Yet people will volunteer and be subjected to insane testing.

The year long experiment in HA went okay apparently.

Year-long Mars isolation experiment in Hawaii ends

Six people who were isolated on a remote site in Hawaii for one year to help NASA plan for a mission to Mars emerged from their dome Sunday, happy to breathe fresh air and meet new people.
phys.org

They said the montony and isolation was the worst. They said bring books but I'm sure on a real trip they would have access to every book written and just about every movie. It will be a race to see if they send a team up in my time.
 
I would like to volunteer a few people.
 

No ****ing way.
 
Absolutely. Put me in, coach.
 
Hari Seldon said:
I would like to volunteer a few people.
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Some people have the pioneer spirit, others will love the lime light. As it takes them months to get there people will be hanging on every word. I hope someone goes I'd love the trip even by proxy. I'm certain I would go stir crazy. Still imagine coming down the ladder on Mars and scooping up some Mars dirt. Drinking water from Mars would be an experience.
 
Maybe all the progressives should take that journey. They could make that cold planet into what ever they like.
 
Nope. There's no little alien paw shaped button on Mars that will instantly terraform the planet, so that means that you're essentially going on a really long camping trip that ends in death. Add to it that there will probably be limited showers along the way, and I will submit an additional nope for good measure.
 
DrewPaul said:
This is a non-political thread...give it rest okay?
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Just as well you reminded me of that. I was just preparing a few joke lines about Trump and a 'pied piper' approach
 
Some alcohol before listening to Pink Floyd at the Hayden planetarium or a good SF book is as close as I will ever get.
 
Seems like somewhere very cold would have been a better choice to perform the test.
 
Integrityrespec said:
Maybe all the progressives should take that journey. They could make that cold planet into what ever they like.
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If you went would that be the "return" flight for you?
 
I agree its almost certainly a suicide mission. But at least they'll get schools and bridges named after them.
 
DrewPaul said:
I agree its almost certainly a suicide mission. But at least they'll get schools and bridges named after them.
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I've got a couple places that I really like to camp at. One of my rules for camping is make sure that you get home alive, though. There's nothing quite like the feeling of coming back to your house after a fun trip while not being dead.
 
There are easier and cheaper ways to commit suicide.
 
It would be possible to build a permanent colony on Mars using current technology. However, it would require multiple unmanned missions to prepare the location and provide enough resources to survive a Martian year (687 Earth days long). By "prepare the location" I mean building an underground shelter. It only needs to be about a meter underground to get adequate protection from solar and cosmic radiation, but the living quarters would need to be underground. While the radiation will not kill them outright, it will certainly shorten their lives. Mars' background radiation is ~700 times that of Earth.

The location would also be dependent on where we were able to locate subsurface water, or surface ice. At only 600 pascals of atmospheric pressure, Mars is incapable of supporting liquid water on its surface. Surface ice sublimates directly into a gaseous state.

Once an adequate underground living quarters was prepared, with atmospheric and subsurface processing for fuel and the oxygen that we will require, plus 23 months of supplies and a fully fueled return rocket, then we will be ready to send a manned mission to Mars.
 
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some experiment!
 
Go to Hawaii, they said. You'll have fun, they said...
 
nah, my kids are here.
 
I'd go.
 
Can we volunteer Elon Musk?
 

I think if we took all the money and time it would take to get humans safely to Mars and invested it in AI and robotics, we'd probably have superintelligent autonomous robots that we could send there instead of people, a lot sooner than we could actually send people.

And nobody would have to say goodbye forever to Mommy or Daddy.
 
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