NASA looking for volunteers for mission to Mars. The catch, you don't come back. - Polidicks

[quote]IT'S the biggest dead-end job ever. NASA is looking for volunteers to fly to Mars - the snag is that you won't come back. It is actively investigating the possibility of humans colonising worlds such as the Red Planet. The settlers would be sent supplies from Earth but would go on the understanding that it would be too costly to bring them home. NASA revealed that it had already received more than $1 million to commence work on the project at its Ames Research Centre in California. Centre director Pete Worden, who claimed humans could be living on Mars by 2030 despite the inhospitable conditions, said: "The human space program is now aimed at settling other worlds. "Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars or get fired." Mr Worden told a conference in San Francisco that he had discussed with Google co-founder Larry Page the potential for one-way trips to Mars. Scientists say much of the cost of such a mission is associated with bringing the astronauts home - the price of sending 20 Mars settlers with a one-way ticket would be equal to bringing four astronauts back. Experts say a nuclear-fuelled rocket could make the journey in four months. Of all the planets in the solar system, Mars is the most likely to have substantial quantities of water, making it the best bet for sustaining life. But it is a forbidding place to set up home. Temperatures plummet way below freezing in some parts. The thin atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, so oxygen supplies are a must. Mr Worden suggested that new technologies, such as synthetic biology and alterations to the human genome, could be explored ahead of the mission. Writing in the Journal of Cosmology, scientists Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies envisaged sending four volunteer astronauts on the first mission to colonise Mars. A one-way human mission to Mars would not be a fixed-duration project as in the Apollo program, but the first step in establishing a permanent human presence on the planet, they said.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/nasa-mars-mission-a-one-way-trip/story-fn5fsgyc-1225945124330[/url]

I nominate my brother

I'd volunteer, as long as the housing was reliable. And there was some bitches.

I nominate Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers.

OH and if my family got a bunch of money too.

[QUOTE=Del91;25768855]I'd volunteer, as long as the housing was reliable. And there was some bitches.[/QUOTE] And Internet

I nominate Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and the entire jersey shore cast. [editline]31st October 2010[/editline] wait terrible idea

I would not go. Earth is my home!

This is too big of a decision tbh, I mean, for one, I would be one of the first people there, but I would also miss all of Earths technological advances for roughly a century before I die.

[QUOTE=Str4t0s;25768867]I nominate Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers.[/QUOTE] I'd throw them out of the air lock...Shit what would NASA do if there was Murder on Mars. :eek:

I'd go. [editline]31st October 2010[/editline] If it helps humanity, fuck yeah I'm going. Been sitting on my ass too long.

I would expect some brave terminally ill people would try and apply for this, seeing as they know they will die, why not do it for the benefit of humanity? But NASA would likely turn them down due to illness.

[QUOTE=JaegerMonster;25768876]I nominate Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and the entire jersey shore cast. [/QUOTE] Televise it, and I'd watch.

I'd do it. Mainly cause I got multiple mental health trouble and I could at least be useful before diying by my hand or by an hostile environnement

[QUOTE=Str4t0s;25768867]I nominate Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers.[/QUOTE] The martians will they're we're tools.

This would be a cool way to live out the last few years of your life if you were old or terminally ill. NASA probably wouldn't approve of sending a bunch of sick and old people to mars on billions of dollars worth of technology though.

'It would cost to much to bring them home however supplies would be sent from earth" How is that cheaper?

[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;25768954]The martians will they're we're tools.[/QUOTE] I... What the hell did you just say?

I would go just to kill all of the religious people.

[QUOTE=xianlee;25768984]'It would cost to much to bring them home however supplies would be sent from earth" How is that cheaper?[/QUOTE] First they have to send a spacecraft there that will put itself into orbit and drop some kind of shuttle onto the planet that the guys jump on. The spacecraft would have to pick it up and head back to Earth. Dropping supplies however, would just require getting something there, and nothing more.

[quote]new technologies, such as synthetic biology and [b]alterations to the human genome[/b], could be explored ahead of the mission.[/quote] p. sure I saw this in a movie once [img]http://www.scifiscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/pandorum_4.jpg[/img] oh yeah fuck you NASA

And then what have they going to do when they after of NASA?

It's not the fact that you're going to die on Mars, it's that you're gonna goddamn [B]live[/B] on Mars

[QUOTE=RayDark;25769009]I would go just to kill all of the religious people.[/QUOTE] Nice, bringing up religion in a scientific article about colonizing Mars.

[IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/vn1ht3.png[/IMG] Forever alone.

Signed up, Made a Facepunch flag and will plant it on the top of Mount Olympus. "First Facepuncher on Mars"

Hehe where do i sign? I have always dreamed about exploring Mars. Even with an possibility of never coming back it seems like a good thing to do.

This sounds like a really bad b-horror plot

I can imagine it now. They're leaving Earth then the planet suddenly blows up leaving them alone

If I managed to get into this and get sent to Mars and if i could somehow get rid of all the other volunteers, I would be the king of Mars the king of mars