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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
    49

If I wasn't such an old fart, I would be raring to go. This is something I have always dreamed about.
 




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.
 
Perotista said:
If I wasn't such an old fart, I would be raring to go. This is something I have always dreamed about.
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If reincarnation is possible, then I will go someday! It's been a long-held dream for me, too! :thumbs:
 
polgara said:
If reincarnation is possible, then I will go someday! It's been a long-held dream for me, too! :thumbs:
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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.
 

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

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

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.
 
specklebang said:
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.
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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.
 
joko104 said:
but be careful what you say there!
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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.
 

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.
 
lka said:
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.
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He is at least smart enough to know the difference between then and than.
 

Next reality show?
 
Gathomas88 said:
Say the word, and I can be packed and ready to go by 0500 tomorrow morning. :mrgreen:
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Why would you need to pack anything other than your best suit?
 

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.
 
Fiddytree said:
From what everyone else had been saying, their timetable is beyond ambitious. Let alone the risks.
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Everybody going knows they are going to die, hence one way trip.

What risks would matter?
 

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
 

Don't be so negative though.

It is a great place to send stupid people.
 
Mason66 said:
So this is a veiled attempted at population control?

Get rid of the stupid people first?

I could go for that.
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Mason66 said:
It is not about the destination but the journey.

That is because once you get there you are dead.
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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.
 
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?
 

Well yes there is that human nature thing.

They will just have to forget about that.
 
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