NASA looking for volunteers for mission to Mars. The catch, you don't come back.
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[QUOTE=ThePuska;25773287]not much biology on Mars, except what humanity brings with itself[/QUOTE]
If you honestly believe that then your statement belies your ignorance.
Biologists will be extremely valuable in colonizing new worlds. Who do you think is going to work to counteract any unknown diseases, viruses, bacteria, or parasites that might exist on the new planet? Who's going to modify earth-borne plant strains to adapt to the new alien landscape? To keep the humans healthy?
[QUOTE=tyanet;25773315]I would go, as long as my future wife/girlfriend came with me.[/QUOTE]
It'd suck if you had a messy break-up though, and not being able to get outside 100m of each other at most.
[QUOTE=Adbor;25769129]I believe this is an extremely important point: sacrificing human beings for the greater good, obviously in exchange for something, like wealth for their families. Humanity would develop much faster if a grand part of the moral burden of research was dropped, and governments weren't demonized for every death for science.
This makes me feel optimistic.
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As a man of science and someone who intends to actually become a scientist one day: you're wrong. Your opinion is wrong. There's nothing acceptable about sacrificing people for scientific knowledge. If they're dying anyway, sure, study them, but KILLING people outright to learn stuff is unacceptable.
As a person with an inch of common sense, they're not going to outright kill people, the only sacrifice that will be expected of the people going will be that they will never return to Earth. Otherwise they will live their lives until they die of old age, or a horrific and unexpected accident ends their lives prematurely. There is [I]never[/I] going to be a time when we live in a democratic, peaceful society that people are expected to die for Science.
I will go there, and claim all land for myself.
I shall be known as Scar Mars Germanicus Scipio the Great- Fighter for Sheep equality
I'd do it if I knew it wasn't going to be so god damn boring. You're going to spend the rest of your life on mars, and there isn't shit to do there.
Oh shit, the next Fallout game should totally be set on Mars. Where there's no nuclear war ruins but the base is falling to pieces due to the lack of shuttles from Earth and stuff. That'd be sweeeeeeeet.
[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;25774089]As a person with an inch of common sense, they're not going to outright kill people, the only sacrifice that will be expected of the people going will be that they will never return to Earth. Otherwise they will live their lives until they die of old age, or a horrific and unexpected accident ends their lives prematurely. There is [I]never[/I] going to be a time when we live in a democratic, peaceful society that people are expected to die for Science.[/QUOTE]
If that was in reply to my post I wasn't suggesting that NASA would do such a thing, I was just explaining that in general knowingly killing people for science is unacceptable.
[QUOTE=sltungle;25774349]If that was in reply to my post I wasn't suggesting that NASA would do such a thing, I was just explaining that in general knowingly killing people for science is unacceptable.[/QUOTE]
Fair enough, misunderstood what you said
I'd go as long as every major game is sent up there. I can't go without playing episode 3.
Why the hell are most of the people in the thread against this?
I'd like to sign up, after all, they will need someone to monitor water quality.
Too bad the initial crew is only going to consist of four people, who's life expectancy on mars is twenty years.
Okay, maybe not.
Source for article: [URL]http://journalofcosmology.com/Mars108.html[/URL]
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Instantly came to my mind.
I just read the article and... Wow..
I wouldn't go. Sure it means missing out on going out into space and colonizing a new planet, but I want to do everything I can do with my life on this planet first, which will probably take a good lifetime. Kudos to the people who eventually travel out and everything, they have my respect, but I just couldn't deal with knowing that my life would be shortened and I would never get to come back to Earth.
[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;25774800]I wouldn't go. Sure it means missing out on going out into space and colonizing a new planet, but I want to do everything I can do with my life on this planet first, which will probably take a good lifetime. Kudos to the people who eventually travel out and everything, they have my respect, but I just couldn't deal with knowing that my life would be shortened and I would never get to come back to Earth.[/QUOTE]
Well, you wouldn't just "go" per say, You would of course have to pass tests both mental and physical.
[QUOTE=ItsGary;25774829]Well, you wouldn't just "go" per say, You would of course have to pass tests both mental and physical.[/QUOTE]
Okay, even if I was old enough, and passed the mental/physical tests, if I was offered a great deal of money (or wealth for my family) I wouldn't even entertain the thought of trying for it.
While space travel is risky, the first astronaut to set foot on mars would be one of the most famous people in human history, even after he died he would be remembered for hundreds of years.
Send some emo kid up there.
Where. Do. We. Sign. up.
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Instantly came to my mind.[/QUOTE]
Does that thing have downs?
for those mentioning internet, it's be nearly impossible, even if a connection could be made, it'd be very slow and unresponsive, with a VERY high ping to anything on earth...
And there will be weight problems half way there, and force a group of people to jump out of the ship.
They all get into a fight, kill each other.
I would move into one of them pyramids there and become a true pharaoh.
Just give me food and 2 bitches to chose from and I'm ready to go!
Would be cool if I could also get some live internet stream there and solar powered laptops and shit and also get upgraded versions of laptops and hardware, sent to me every 5 years!
[QUOTE=dagoth_ur;25775309]for those mentioning internet, it's be nearly impossible, even if a connection could be made, it'd be very slow and unresponsive, with a VERY high ping to anything on earth...[/QUOTE]
Well then we'll just have to make our [i]own[/i] internet.
MWW - Mars World Web
[QUOTE=Fuhrer;25775195]While space travel is risky, the first astronaut to set foot on mars would be one of the most famous people in human history, even after he died he would be remembered for hundreds of years.[/QUOTE]
You'd be one of the most famous people [I]on Earth.[/I] You know, the place you can never return to because you'll be dead way before people start coming back?
I just had a thought - what's it going to be like for the people who are born on Mars and eventually come back to Earth? Holy shit, just imagining what a shock it would be to them... I don't know what to think.
You'd actually be cemented into human history. Like Christopher Colombus when he discovered the New World
[QUOTE=ItsGary;25774829]Well, you wouldn't just "go" per say, You would of course have to pass tests both mental and physical.[/QUOTE]
I'm sorry but...
it's "per se". It's latin, meaning "through itself". It perturbs the [i]shit[/i] out of me when people say "per say".
cheers
thanks for pointing out my typo telepethi
I can see this going wrong. Insanity setting in on the travel, for example.
Plus, the landing site would become a heritage site on Mars after 100 years and you could totally just scrawl random clues everywhere and leave treasure somewhere
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