• One way ticket to Mars. Applications imminent.
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[QUOTE=HellSoldier;40311246]Good luck assembling the necessary launch platform on Mars while being shipped parts from Earth. It would take an incredibly long time.[/QUOTE] We seriously need a space elevator or something, shipping stuff into space by burning fuel isn't going to do
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40310316]Isn't this a reality TV thing and the company doing it has at no point laid out how they plan on actually making the trip happen[/QUOTE] All the contestants will think they're on Mars but really they're in a studio.
[QUOTE=alexguydude;40310327]My brother who is an astrophysicist said he would want to do this. Why the hell would you want to leave earth at this point? I can see if it was like 300 years from now and there's a huge city, but never going back to earth would be extremely depressing.[/QUOTE] Because as Americans, almost everyone is secretly in love with old frontier fantasies. I sometimes daydream about buying forest land in Canada or somewhere and building a cabin with ~~ my own two hands ~~ because the [I]real[/I] American Dream is about the Homestead Act and being a true frontiersman, not that pussy gold rush wild west shit. Basically I want to go all Wurm Online on Mars, because fuck, I would love to do that.
[QUOTE=DarkendSky;40311270]Because as Americans, almost everyone is secretly in love with old frontier fantasies. I sometimes daydream about buying forest land in Canada or somewhere and building a cabin with ~~ my own two hands ~~ because the [I]real[/I] American Dream is about the Homestead Act and being a true frontiersman, not that pussy gold rush wild west shit. Basically I want to go all Wurm Online on Mars, because fuck, I would love to do that.[/QUOTE] Wasn't the "pussy gold rush wild west shit" hand-in-hand with the Homestead Act?
I mean shit like axing down trees and clearing land by hand to farm, not stuff like genociding Native Americans in my insatiable lust for mining claims. [editline]16th April 2013[/editline] Little House on the Praire basically instead of murdering fools
I think I'll wait until we have vehicles which can make a return trip to obrit to meet up with those nuclear fusion rockets.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;40310706]400 years ago, travelling across the Atlantic was the equivalent of Earth to Mars today. Jamestown, Plymouth, St. Augustine, Quebec, Boston and Newfoundland were teeming with people willing to abandon their homeland and cross a sea where seldom others have bothered to cross. Many of them would never go back nor would they have much contact with their families or loved ones back in the Old World. There's never going to be a shortage of people willing to start anew.[/QUOTE]Except America had breathable atmosphere with pressure suitable for humans. Mars does not :v:
[QUOTE=dije;40311495]Except America had breathable atmosphere with pressure suitable for humans. Mars does not :v:[/QUOTE] I'd hardly call the East Coast suitable for humans in that time period, either. Jamestown was one of the least suitable places to make a colony. They essentially had to terraform in order to support agriculture anyways.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;40311506]I'd hardly call the East Coast suitable for humans in that time period, either. Jamestown was one of the least suitable places to make a colony. They essentially had to terraform in order to support agriculture anyways.[/QUOTE] There were natives living there already. I'd say it was suitable for humans, just not for Europeans who were accustomed to a different way of living.
[QUOTE=dije;40311495]Except America had breathable atmosphere with pressure suitable for humans. Mars does not :v:[/QUOTE] People used to think that the tomato was a poisonous fruit back then. I think modern and semi-future humans would be able to build colonies to sustain them on another planet.
[QUOTE=archangel125;40311513]There were natives living there already. I'd say it was suitable for humans, just not for Europeans who were accustomed to a different way of living.[/QUOTE] in some ways it could be considered almost an alien world, though. people went there without proper knowledge of the flora or fauna, and in a setting where their normal crops wouldn't be readily adapted to the environment. people went without much expectation of coming back, they were nearly completely on their own(in the beginning) with very little in the way of extra supplies. we have a major advantage today, though. we know what mars will be like and can plan a lot better for our arrival.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;40311531]in some ways it could be considered almost an alien world, though. people went there without proper knowledge of the flora or fauna, and in a setting where their normal crops wouldn't be readily adapted to the environment. people went without much expectation of coming back, they were nearly completely on their own(in the beginning) with very little in the way of extra supplies. we have a major advantage today, though. we know what mars will be like and can plan a lot better for our arrival.[/QUOTE] And we could probably send something there before we actually arrive.
[QUOTE=archangel125;40310311]I don't know if I'd go. It's a huge decision to make, you'd be permanently cutting yourself off from the people on Earth.[/QUOTE] Obviously you haven't read the website. [QUOTE=archangel125;40310311]No internet, no radio, no TV, no music, no phone calls to loved ones[/QUOTE] The deep space communication network would allow you to call earth, but with a massive delay (how do you think they control curiosity?) And thus internet is possible. [QUOTE=archangel125;40310311]Aside from the two or three people that'd go with you, you'd never meet a new person again.[/QUOTE] Read the website, these are just the first of many to go.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhUjzYBksRY[/media] Gus would do it.
[QUOTE=darkedone02;40311105]I don't think it's even a good idea, how the hell can we colonize mars when we don't got any equipment to begin with? no way to make fertile soil in mars to grow plants, no terraformation, you only probably only have stone unless you dig deep to see if their is actually any ore in mars. So life be tough in mars in the beginning.[/QUOTE] This isn't minecraft. We either take equipment with us or consustently ship it once we're there, as we do with every manned project in space.
Still waiting for Jersey Shore: Mars Edition
If I knew more about the project I'd go for sure. I mean, I'd be giving up everything here, but to lay the foundations for the future of humanity? To be the few first on Mars? Theres no better thing to give your life to, in my opinion.
[QUOTE=archangel125;40310311]I don't know if I'd go. It's a huge decision to make, you'd be permanently cutting yourself off from the people on Earth. No internet, no radio, no TV, no music, no phone calls to loved ones, you'd be reading the same books, and you wouldn't be able to wander far from your lander or risk running out of breathable air. Very little human contact - Aside from the two or three people that'd go with you, you'd never meet a new person again. For every last remaining day of your life.[/QUOTE] If you can settle for ebook readers with digital books and music "only" in 320Kbps MP3, I am pretty sure you could pack up more books than you could read in your entire life and enough music to last you for years, and there WILL be definitely some amount of communication between you and the planet, which will only broaden over time. It's true that it will never be real-time communication, unless we learn to break current physics, but you wouldn't be "cut off" either.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;40311998]If you can settle for ebook readers with digital books and music "only" in 320Kbps MP3, I am pretty sure you could pack up more books than you could read in your entire life and enough music to last you for years, and there WILL be definitely some amount of communication between you and the planet, which will only broaden over time. It's true that it will never be real-time communication, unless we learn to break current physics, but you wouldn't be "cut off" either.[/QUOTE] Actually, it would be real-time communication. Just with a big delay. But it is a delay that is constant and can be predicted accurately. The definition of the term real-time doesn't mean that something is super fast, but that it must guarantee response within strict time constraints. That is why it is possible for the rover to be controllable on Mars.
[QUOTE=Mr. Zombie;40310340]They say that people born on Mars (Martians) would never be able to visit Earth because of the differing gravity altering their bone structure.[/QUOTE] While it would take a few generations, essentially your statement is true. Martian humans would be able to visit Earth, but only in special exosuits which prevents Earth`s 1 G from crushing their bones. ( Arthur C. Clarke, " God`s Hammer " . He has written something about that. )
[QUOTE=Lycanthorph;40312304]While it would take a few generations, essentially your statement is true. Martian humans would be able to visit Earth, but only in special exosuits which prevents Earth`s 1 G from crushing their bones. ( Arthur C. Clarke, " God`s Hammer " . He has written something about that. )[/QUOTE] The anime 'Planetes' had an episode where the main characters go to the moon. There's a city there and everything, but there is one character introduced there that is as tall as the main characters, who are in their mid 20s, but she's like 8 or 9 or something. She says she was the first person born on the moon, and that her dream is to be able to visit the earth and that they're studying her to find out if thats even possible.
If Emma Watson signs up and decides to go, I'll sign up with no thinking. ...I mean we have to populate mars somehow...
If I were to sign up, I would sign up sometime after the first few trips(few years after) to see how the first bit goes on over there. edit: Crap, they have to dig up sand/soil and cover the living areas/domes due to solar winds... that seems like a ton of work at first...
I don't get it. There is literally nothing significant on Mars. We would be able to see it from here if there was something even slightly significant on Mars. It's the closest thing after the Moon that we can hardly reach, and suddenly it's the main point of interest in.. "space colonization" ?? Give it like 50 years or so and the scientists will have developed a laser which they can use to find out everything about a planet beforehand. Before going there and building tents with hundreds of billions. Give it a 4000 years and we can get there in a way unimaginable. Maybe.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;40310418]if we have the technology to reliably live on mars, and then travel back and forth, then no doubt we would have cybernetic limb enhancements for martians who want to go to earth.[/QUOTE] The problem is the fact that the heart will become weaker due to the lack of gravity. Well, unless they do some insane exercise that forces the heart to stay strong. [editline]17th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Gekkosan;40312638]I don't get it. There is literally nothing significant on Mars. We would be able to see it from here if there was something even slightly significant on Mars. It's the closest thing after the Moon that we can hardly reach, and suddenly it's the main point of interest in.. "space colonization" ?? Give it like 50 years or so and the scientists will have developed a laser which they can use to find out everything about a planet beforehand. Before going there and building tents with hundreds of billions. Give it a 4000 years and we can get there in a way unimaginable. Maybe.[/QUOTE] The reason we want to colonise Mars is the fact this it is one of the few places in our solar system that wouldn't fucking kill us outright. We can't live on Mercury or we'll fry before we hit the ground. We can't really live on Venus because you know, the human body disagrees with Sulphuric Acid. We already live on Earth so you know, kinda moot. We can live on Mars because it's not stark bollock freezing all the time and it's somewhat similar to some deserts on Earth. We can't live on Jupiter cause Jupiter and bone crushing gravity, we could live on a few of its moons but again, really far away. Everything else is a fucking absurd distance from us. So it's the Moon or Mars, and I'd rather live on Mars cause it can stay somewhat warm and has actual gravity.
[QUOTE=arleitiss;40312480]If Emma Watson signs up and decides to go, I'll sign up with no thinking. ...I mean we have to populate mars somehow...[/QUOTE] you and thousands of other men, I'm sure. I doubt this is some simple first come first serve thing
[QUOTE=SuddenImpact;40312294]Actually, it would be real-time communication. Just with a big delay. But it is a delay that is constant and can be predicted accurately. The definition of the term real-time doesn't mean that something is super fast, but that it must guarantee response within strict time constraints. That is why it is possible for the rover to be controllable on Mars.[/QUOTE] Well my personal concern is that it would mean only allow REALLY lazy virtual ERPs :v:
[QUOTE=bunnyspy1;40312766]you and thousands of other men, I'm sure. I doubt this is some simple first come first serve thing[/QUOTE] massive mars orgy
I'm sore that sadly there are enough people who would prefer to go to Mars instead of staying here.
Take all pedophiles from prisons, and send them to mars. Happy hunting.
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