I signed up for this and got a huge media coverage on my behalf here in Portugal for no reason.
I've already isolated myself to my computer I'm set
I would do it just for the mars flagdog when I make a new account on fp from there.
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;41777300]This saddened me for some reason.[/QUOTE]
But think about it that way, if you have nothing to loose in your life, this is the occasion for a purpose. This is one for the history books, the first Martian colonizers, their names will be written down in the books as heroes who made heroic sacrifices in the name of the greater good - science. They will carve themselves into human history, to be there for ever and ever.
[QUOTE=EnlightenDead;41777400]What if you decided to reenact the red faction series?[/QUOTE]
I prefer Doom's story.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;41776749]What the fuck are you going to buy on the moon?[/QUOTE]
Think about it, if you were obscenely rich and you literally took all your material wealth with you then it could act like some kind've incentive. Like a treasure hunt. We'd have another space race to get all this money and objects perfectly preserved in the vacuum of space.
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;41778509]How are they planning on the first 4 surviving? Uhh, I don't know if they noticed but you can't exactly survive on a planet with no atmosphere, and we definitely don't have working biodomes and the rockets to boost that much weight out of the atmosphere here.
Is this just a scheme to get people to pay for something they won't get chosen for?[/QUOTE]
growing food and plants.
[QUOTE=Midas22;41778595]Think about it, if you were obscenely rich and you literally took all your material wealth with you then it could act like some kind've incentive. Like a treasure hunt. We'd have another space race to get all this money and objects perfectly preserved in the vacuum of space.[/QUOTE]
considering how many billions it takes to get there, you'd need to be obscenely rich to be able to collect the treasure in the first place, so you'd probably be fine just being obscenely rich on earth
[QUOTE]...But remember: You can never go home again.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Jad Hinto;41777275]Only 40 are going.[/QUOTE]
Hmm, they'll obviously choose the lucky 40 based on how suitable they are for living on the place, so hopefully it won't be so bad.
[QUOTE=MegaJohnny;41778792]Hmm, they'll obviously choose the lucky 40 based on how suitable they are for living on the place, so hopefully it won't be so bad.[/QUOTE]
technical expertise is important as well
if something goes wrong over there, it can go [I]very[/I] wrong
can you imagine if the water collection systems failed under something like a faulty generator?
and the 4 astronauts struggle to repair it but it's impossible without custom made parts? so, with video feed back to earth, they try and try, slowly running out of reserves of oxygen and water, with an emergency supply shuttle launched but a hopeless amount of time away, and the astronauts eventually die after running through their backup stores, and there's nothing the company could do about it from earth?
;_;
They are not able to get back on earth as their body can't handle our strong gravity after living less then a year on mars. (The reason why astronauts are training on ISS twice a day)
[QUOTE]After spending time on Mars' much weaker gravitational field, it would be almost impossible to readjust back to Earth's much stronger gravity, says Landsorp.[/QUOTE]
Also if someone gets a baby up there .. be prepared for a some bone deformation.
[QUOTE=DChapsfield;41778991]can you imagine if the water collection systems failed under something like a faulty generator?
and the 4 astronauts struggle to repair it but it's impossible without custom made parts? so, with video feed back to earth, they try and try, slowly running out of reserves of oxygen and water, with an emergency supply shuttle launched but a hopeless amount of time away, and the astronauts eventually die after running through their backup stores, and there's nothing the company could do about it from earth?
;_;[/QUOTE]
Well look what we've got here boys... A fucking jinx.
[QUOTE=demoguy08;41777418]The sponsor page for Mars One lists 6 companies, with [I]LulzBot [/I]being one of them. Good luck funding that multi-billion dollar project![/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.lulzbot.com/[/url]
it's actually one of the better consumer grade 3D printers, which if you think about it would be pretty useful. Someone's sending a 3D printer to the ISS, no?
I assume the ~lulz~ grade branding is what helped it spread so fast through reddit, it was the suggested brand when everyone went apeshit about liberators so I presume they've gotten a windfall of cash.
[I]On this night, we must journey, far beyond this world.
and you must know, we can never go back home again.
So now we'll say goodbye, because tonight we die.
So we say goodbye, so we'll say goodbye, goodbye. we die.[/I]
[QUOTE=DChapsfield;41778991]can you imagine if the water collection systems failed under something like a faulty generator?
and the 4 astronauts struggle to repair it but it's [B]impossible without custom made parts?[/B] so, with video feed back to earth, they try and try, slowly running out of reserves of oxygen and water, with an emergency supply shuttle launched but a hopeless amount of time away, and the astronauts eventually die after running through their backup stores, and there's nothing the company could do about it from earth?
;_;[/QUOTE]
Thats why they will send a 3D printer with them...
I wonder if they will give medical training to those going up.
[QUOTE=TNOMCat;41779209]Thats why they will send a 3D printer with them...[/QUOTE]
3d printers dont print from nothing
I had a dream where like 20 people (me included) were forced onto a spaceship headed to mars, given like a pip-boy camera thing, and forced to fight to the death roman gladiator style while music from a cheesy sci-fi movie played.
On a more serious note, Will the mars colony become like owned by a country, or will mars one itself essentially own the fucking planet?
I'd love to be in charge of sending people to Mars. I'd build a Hip Hop society(Hip Hop, the way of life and thinking, not "hip-hop the music genre"). Make a new civilization. Then again, we don't need another planet to create a new civilization. Our ancestors did it, why can't we?
I want my ashes to be rocketed to Mars inside an ICBM that detonates into a shower of raw sewage upon impact.
It shall be called the SHITMIRV.
[QUOTE=Chaoswolf725;41779254]I had a dream where like 20 people (me included) were forced onto a spaceship headed to mars, given like a pip-boy camera thing, and forced to fight to the death roman gladiator style while music from a cheesy sci-fi movie played.
On a more serious note, Will the mars colony become like owned by a country, or will mars one itself essentially own the fucking planet?[/QUOTE]
You know something, Nobody's officially claimed mars as their planet. I think we should take this opportunity to claim mars as a planet of Facepunch!
I would love it if the people we send up there just turn around one day and say: "No, fuck you, this is our planet now." When more people try to come.
[I]Somebody[/I] has to be first, I suppose.
I was thinking, if we just have one of those water purification places built on mars and then ship them gallons of seawater to convert into fresh water, they may start being able to sustain themselves.
Then the colony shall thrive so they can start harvesting the ores and creating jobs for people back on earth and creating frontiers on mars fighting martian natives for their land.
would suck if one of the dudes got both the girls
[QUOTE=Chaoswolf725;41779254]
On a more serious note, Will the mars colony become like owned by a country, or will mars one itself essentially own the fucking planet?[/QUOTE]
Since mars one does not have an actual claim on the planet they most likely would not own anything else than the colony itself.
What is not neccessarily ordained by law still follows rules of practice, the seemingly arbitrary borders of countries in Europe are a result of this; what is de facto will end up de jure given enough time.
I'm assuming Mars is up for the taking á America at the time of the discovery(or any non-christian part of the world), where companies would establish colonies here and there without support of an actual government.
If something goes horribly wrong, will the reality show just stop filming?
[editline]9th August 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=tr00per7;41779514]I was thinking, if we just have one of those water purification places built on mars and then ship them gallons of seawater to convert into fresh water, they may start being able to sustain themselves.
Then the colony shall thrive so they can start harvesting the ores and creating jobs for people back on earth and creating frontiers on mars fighting martian natives for their land.[/QUOTE]
That would be expensive and pointless as fuck.
[QUOTE=Irespawnoften;41780169]If something goes horribly wrong, will the reality show just stop filming?
[/QUOTE]
No that's when they show ads for big $$$
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