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

What if earth gets fucked over while you're there? "uh guys? Wheres our packages? Guys? GUYS?!"

[QUOTE=Chrille;25770868]ITT nerds wanna go to Mars because they have no life[/QUOTE] Just because some people find space travel and space itself interesting doesn't mean they are nerds with no lives. Must be hard to imagine doing something to benefit mankind as a whole and not acting in your own personal interests all the time.

[QUOTE=E104 Epsilon;25827973]Just because some people find space travel and space itself interesting doesn't mean they are nerds with no lives. Must be hard to imagine doing something to benefit mankind as a whole and not acting in your own personal interests all the time.[/QUOTE] If benefiting mankind [i]is[/i] within your personal interests, then you altruistic, for-the-greater-good sort of folk are a Scroogey bunch of hypocrites. Stop being so selfish, punk. [b]Edit[/b] Go be a pioneer in what might be the greatest scientific achievement of all time or something, ya loser.

just give me something to keep me entertained and I'll be fine. let's colonize this bitch.

Hopefully they don't forget to bring in some chainsaws.

[QUOTE=Murkat;25769533]The ping would suck on interplanetary servers.[/QUOTE] Not if we figure out quantum entanglement-based comm systems [editline]3rd November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=booster;25772762]Yeah, have fun with the 20+ years of astronaut training.[/QUOTE] You wouldn't actually be an astronaut though, more like a passenger.

Why is there no European program? We are better in colonizing then you Yanks!

The hell happens when they run out of air?

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;25815515]Jeez, just you and 19 other people for the rest of your lives? No way. Can't work. Imagine the rest of your life with contact between only you and 19 other persons. Their emotions would go out of control. Rage, jealousy, lust, grief, loneliness: these would be the real hurdles, not the environment. In order for a sustainable settlement on another world to even be feasible, you'd need to send a minimum of several hundred people, with an even ratio of men-to-women.[/QUOTE] I would imagine with the amount of volunteers they get (which I reckon would be a huge number, especially compared to 20), that when they are choosing applicants, they give them things like claustrophobic tests to see how well they act in a cramped environment with other people. Because if you think about it, there is space on Mars for people to move around, so they can at least walk away from each other. But in a cramped shuttle for 4 months or what ever the estimated travel time is, they're going to need to be able to cope with each other in far worse conditions than on Mars.

why dont they just send the return craft in spare parts? if they can send a constant supply of goods there, why not send people with the right skills and tools and build your own.

[QUOTE=ThePuska;25773287]not much biology on Mars, except what humanity brings with itself[/QUOTE] Finding out how microorganisms act on an alien planet is, I'd imagine, a microbiologist's dream. [editline]3rd November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Sirias;25836929]why dont they just send the return craft in spare parts? if they can send a constant supply of goods there, why not send people with the right skills and tools and build your own.[/QUOTE] To build a starship of that caliber on Earth takes a lot as it is, but on Mars with limited experience, resources and support?

I would love to travel to Mars' Moons, though I'd prefer Mars itself.

Honestly I disagree with people who said send prisoners Why the hell do they get to be king of mars king of marss

I will go if they give me one kilogram of cocaine so I can brag about how I did cocaine on mars to cocaine bag.

[QUOTE=Killowatt;25768871]And Internet[/QUOTE] Im sign up and setup a minecraft server on mars I would do this! Would not mind it at all as long as i get to bring a few weed plants

[QUOTE=Scar;25832084]Why is there no European program? We are better in colonizing then you Yanks![/QUOTE] How did those colonies across the pond turn out, anyways? :downs:

were do i sign up at ? Im not jokeing I will sign up

I think the biggest issue with this is that someone would probably end up raping another colonist which would likely result in other colonists killing the rapist. Then back on Earth, NASA would come under severe scrutiny and the program would risk being cancelled.

I Nominate Justin Bieber

Chilean Miners: Mars Edition

[QUOTE=The DooD;25833832]I would imagine with the amount of volunteers they get (which I reckon would be a huge number, especially compared to 20), that when they are choosing applicants, they give them things like claustrophobic tests to see how well they act in a cramped environment with other people. Because if you think about it, there is space on Mars for people to move around, so they can at least walk away from each other. But in a cramped shuttle for 4 months or what ever the estimated travel time is, they're going to need to be able to cope with each other in far worse conditions than on Mars.[/QUOTE] It's not claustrophobia I'm worried about, it's insanity. Say you send ten women and ten men. For a few years everything is going fairly smoothly, there are your typical squabbles and whatnot, but everybody is still able to get along fairly reasonably. But Jimmy and Cody both love Sally. Sally and Jimmy hook up, have a space wedding, and spend the rest of their lives in love. Cody now has to face the rest of his life with a woman he doesn't love, or hell, maybe one of the women dies and Cody has to face the possibility of spending the rest of his life alone. Cody would resent Jimmy, and possibly even Sally. Over the years that resentment and that burning jealousy would turn to hate, because there is nowhere else it can go, nowhere [i]he[/i] can go to escape from it. On Earth something as simple as being shot down by the girl you like isn't a big deal, because the world is full of fine women and new opportunities, but there are no opportunities on Mars--nothing new to look forward to. Cody couldn't escape from from it, and that resentment could turn to bitter hate, and terrible loneliness. Loneliness, jealousy, hatred, and isolation are a very bad combination, and the end result could be very nasty Cody, or for Jimmy or Sally, or for all three. Steven has nothing to do. He's bored. It'd be awfully easy for him to lose sight of the fact that he's a pioneer in one of the greatest scientific undertakings of all time after fifteen years of analyzing soil samples. His mind needs more input, and there's simply nothing to give it. What's the point of doing anything on an empty planet? It's not like Earth, where your ambitions can be achieved. Mars is an empty, dust-covered planet, and the knowledge that his actions might one day make it a second home for humanity would be little comfort after the monotony of his life became too much to bear. Maybe the idea that there will never be anything new in his life makes Steven a little crazy, and maybe he starts to lose sight of objective. Everything he does feels pointless, and so he stops seeing the point in living, and Steven clocks out early. Any tiny little worry or fear or distaste or whatever can bud into a psychologically devastating and all-encompassing idea if put in the right conditions. Spending the rest of your life on an empty planet with only a handful of other people is the perfect incubator for such insanity. Isolation, loneliness, monotony; and above all else, time: these things can destroy a perfectly healthy mind. And what can the other colonists do if one of their members [i]does[/i] go a little crazy? Or a lot crazy? What if one of them kills themselves? Or somebody else? The end-result of this project, as defined by the article, is death for everybody who goes. The only question is: how? If so few people go, none of them will die from old age. [i]That[/i] I can almost guarantee.

I love how most everyone is like "Hur I'd go if there was internet" The point of this isn't to establish a colony full of lazy guys playing Starcraft. The point is to set up a forward base to start actually populating and terraforming Mars. You'd be too busy to use the internet.

I would do it, provided there's the capability to produce some sort of industry.

Obviously they'll have a return shuttle some time before you die. You'll just be standing there and all of a sudden some Russian dudes pull up and are all like "Hey want a ride?"

You guys are talking about it like once they send one group they will never send anyone else, like the colony is quarantined from the rest of humanity. Unless earth gets assfucked by the apocalypse, they will send new people every couple years or so, and eventually once the colony really gets rolling, probably every year.

[QUOTE=Raneman;25863883]Obviously they'll have a return shuttle some time before you die. You'll just be standing there and all of a sudden some Russian dudes pull up and are all like "Hey want a ride?"[/QUOTE] No, you'll go to Mars and the russians will [i]already[/i] be there.

I would probably make an excellent candidate. I have few friends, my family is full of assholes, and I enjoy space. I'll never be important on Earth, so why not make myself important elsewhere?

I'd go aslong as we bring some people with us to set up our own network, get gaming pc's and shit, and the whole steam library, updated on each visit.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;25858319]giant post[/QUOTE] Well, perhaps to solve the whole "love triangle" dispute, you can send people who are already in stable marriages. To cope with the constant boredom, I'm sure that with the supply runs being sent, they can send some form of entertainment. Not only that, but there will most likely be more and more people sent up as the colony expands. Those first few original colonists won't be the only ones ever to touch down on Mars. But one of the things I'm really curious about is, how would they keep track of time? Would they stick to Earth-time, or would there be an entirely separate system developed for Mars?

It sounds really interesting, though I would never wish to volunteer for such thing