• Wanted: People willing to die on Mars
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[QUOTE=joshjet;39957165]If someone played videogames, they sure as hell had better like singleplayer, because the [i]minimum[/i] ping you would have would be over 480000 ms. I'm not sure if they would even have a constant connection at all though, because I would imagine power would be in short supply.[/QUOTE] when the news of this was first released a few months ago, people asked about internet usage. They wouldn't have access to a live internet connection, so they have to request the pages they want to see, which are then downloaded when the signal is strong enough and stored on a local cache for the astronauts to view later
[QUOTE=Trumple;39958095]when the news of this was first released a few months ago, people asked about internet usage. They wouldn't have access to a live internet connection, so they have to request the pages they want to see, which are then downloaded when the signal is strong enough and stored on a local cache for the astronauts to view later[/QUOTE] "I want ALL of TVTropes" "But sir..." "ALL OF IT." and by the time they die, they'll have been through about a third of it
Give them all the music they want, with Space Oddity on loop when they go to bed and when they wake up in the morning. :V
[QUOTE=koeniginator;39957233]space hookers[/QUOTE] [img]http://images.wikia.com/shatteredhorizon/images/2/2b/Shattered_horizon_Zero-G_Spot.jpg[/img] :v:
One-way ticket to insanity
if i could connect to a browser and have a top of the line computer outfitted with all the games i want to help me pass time, i would totally go to mars. i mean yea i would probably regret the decision big time, but i would still be a fucking hero. i would be one of the first human beings to ever set foot on an alien world. that's gotta make up for the boredom and discomfort, right?
If a handful of people did go to mars, and everything went well, I could see it becoming another 'colonial era' where the popularity of helping colonise a new planet grows exponentially. When you reach the point where you have a large group of people wanting to go, the idea of a colony becomes more and more feasible.
I feel like we would have a way worked out to bring them back before they died there. Like sure going there we might not have a way, but it would definitely kick-start an industry that might bring about the possibility surely before they died. It's not like they'd send them there and just stop bothering.
[QUOTE=DeEz;39958310]One-way ticket to insanity[/QUOTE] Some people can survive in isolation, it's not like you are even totally alone and after some more time I'd imagine more people will come to research and work on mars if this works out.
Actually there is a really,really,really expensive plan to terraform mars
[QUOTE=IPK;39958765]Actually there is a really,really,really expensive plan to terraform mars[/QUOTE] Mars is a failed planet with no working atmosphere. Good luck. EDIT: I like how people disagree without even knowing why.
[QUOTE=bIgFaTwOrM12;39957185]Naw, they could just start the coolest(and longest) lan party to ever grace humanity.[/QUOTE] [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1190350]2 years later and the camp is divided into 3 factions, all locked in eternal nuclear war, with survivors living with famine and constant fear of annihilation.[/url]
[QUOTE=NoDachi;39958778]Mars is a failed planet with no working atmosphere. Good luck.[/QUOTE] We can create one. Using science!
Sign my ass up! I want to find me some Prothean ruins
Is weed legal on Mars? I'd probably sneak in some seeds. Grow it in the greenhouse. That could be alright. 'hey man you want some on this? It's [I]space[/I] [i]weed[/i]'
If you don't go, you'll die on earth and be forgotten. If you do go you will never die
[QUOTE=NoDachi;39958778]Mars is a failed planet with no working atmosphere. Good luck.[/QUOTE] The plan is: 1. There is a goddamn shitton of asteroids close to Mars apperently 2. Draw the asteroids to mars 3. After all the asteroids fall,the planet should be much heavier,giving it a stronger gravitational field. 4. After a while,a athmosphere should form. 5. Send some of that special bacteria that hates oxygen and eats metals 6. After a while it should be fully breathable 7. Plant resilient plants,like ghetto palms 8. after it's fully habitable,place industrial zones in cold areas to produce greenhouse gasses required to make the planet warmer 9. Profit
Permanent? Sorry but no. I'd spend a couple of years there, but with no return ticket and no chance of ever enjoying a muscle car on a planet with A: no roads B: no gasoline C: no oxygen and D: nearly no gravity I'm not in any way interested in staying for life.
[QUOTE=IPK;39959204]The plan is: 1. There is a goddamn shitton of asteroids close to Mars apperently 2. Draw the asteroids to mars 3. After all the asteroids fall,the planet should be much heavier,giving it a stronger gravitational field. 4. After a while,a athmosphere should form. 5. Send some of that special bacteria that hates oxygen and eats metals 6. After a while it should be fully breathable 7. Plant resilient plants,like ghetto palms 8. after it's fully habitable,place industrial zones in cold areas to produce greenhouse gasses required to make the planet warmer 9. Profit[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure the lack of atmosphere has more to do with the weak magnetic field than the gravity.
[QUOTE=IPK;39959204]The plan is: 1. There is a goddamn shitton of asteroids close to Mars apperently 2. Draw the asteroids to mars 3. After all the asteroids fall,the planet should be much heavier,giving it a stronger gravitational field. 4. After a while,a athmosphere should form. 5. Send some of that special bacteria that hates oxygen and eats metals 6. After a while it should be fully breathable 7. Plant resilient plants,like ghetto palms 8. after it's fully habitable,place industrial zones in cold areas to produce greenhouse gasses required to make the planet warmer 9. Profit[/QUOTE] See you in a billion years.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;39959442]I'm pretty sure the lack of atmosphere has more to do with the weak magnetic field than the gravity.[/QUOTE] i also don't think it is very volcanically active. the atmosphere that is created ends up being blown away by solar winds faster than it can replenish.
i wanna go but i know there's always that one guy in films that snaps and kill, i'll end up the only one alive out of fear of that happening.
good thing this isn't a film then so it won't have necessary story structure to keep viewers interested because it's actually real life
[QUOTE=DeEz;39958310]One-way ticket to insanity[/QUOTE] At few hundred years ago, a corporation sent out a prospective group across a vast opening to an area where they previously thought was impossible to reach. Some place called Jamestown or what not.
[QUOTE=Andokool12;39959739]good thing this isn't a film then so it won't have necessary story structure to keep viewers interested because it's actually real life[/QUOTE] The project is a reality show.
[QUOTE=cheezey;39959928]The project is a reality show.[/QUOTE] directed by M. Night Shyamalan
They should send some death row prisoners up to see what happens.
better found Ultor now so we can be ready
[QUOTE=cheezey;39959928]The project is a reality show.[/QUOTE] This can only end well. "Camera pans to airlock as a insane crew member opens it, the vacuum of space sucks all the air out and the other crew members inside. The camera fades to black as the credits role."
I would bring a few seeds of hyper-carbon sucking plants and keep them out during the daytime just for the atmospheric shits and giggles.
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