[QUOTE=carcarcargo;39168430]Plus if you get a serious illness like cancer you're fucked.[/QUOTE]
It'll be very difficult not to get exposed to a lot more ionising radiation on Mars, and especially in space than on Earth.
The risk any long term space travel / settlement would have to deal with this and many problems like this.
Sure you might not want to as an individual, but its hardly a reason never to do it.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;39168531]It'll be very difficult not to get exposed to a lot more ionising radiation on Mars, and especially in space than on Earth.
The risk any long term space travel / settlement would have to deal with this and many problems like this.
Sure you might not want to as an individual, but its hardly a reason never to do it.[/QUOTE]
They can do it if they want and can find volunteers, I just think anyone who wants to go live on mars forever is totally mad.
[QUOTE=Hiccuper;39165479]If it's a reality TV show, what happens when you get voted off?[/QUOTE]
They probably airlock you.
Hopefully they'll allow people to bring games and consoles to the colony; give them some entertainment for downtime.
Also, I dunno if the colonists would technically be there 'till they die, since eventually when space travel becomes a massive thing again, the colony might end up having "shuttle ports" after a few decades, enabling some of the older colonists to travel on a return flight one day and finally go back to the world of their birth.
Also also, if and when we get an offworld colony, it'll only be a matter of time before the first human birth on Mars occurs; the first human to be born beyond the Earth.
I'd sign up if I weren't a fat, useless husk likely to die during the trip. I'd fucking love to be one of the first humans to see Mars with their own eyes and roll around in that Martian dirt.
I bet they will manage to send one unstable person that will beat someone.
[QUOTE=acds;39168287]Except you'd get stuck there, realize how hard it is, get depressed within a year then wish you'd never have done it, and there would be absolutely no way back.
Yeah I think people who want to go there just don't realize how it would be. None of you would chose to stay if you spent a year there, then was given the opportunity to return.[/QUOTE]
I'd do it I don't even leave me room except to pee and poo and i'm damn happy this way.
To be fair half of facepunch practically live in solitary capsules already. It'll literally just be changing the window view.
Oh man, we need some awesome vintage-style propaganda posters with clean-cut respectable men and women with huge letters saying "Join the space age! Sign up for the mars colonization program today!"
[QUOTE=NoDachi;39170222]To be fair half of facepunch practically live in solitary capsules already. It'll literally just be changing the window view.[/QUOTE]
Internets connections shit on mars though.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;39170466]Internets connections shit on mars though.[/QUOTE]
nasa already said they were testing internet on mars and the space, i even commented that it should be called "exonet"
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;39170466]Internets connections shit on mars though.[/QUOTE]
So send some Aussie FPers then, it'll be faster if anything
i have this thing stuck in my head.
Hows the gravity on mars? its like the one in the earth? less strong or stronger?
[QUOTE=autodesknoob;39170513]i have this thing stuck in my head.
Hows the gravity on mars? its like the one in the earth? less strong or stronger?[/QUOTE]
62% less gravity
[QUOTE=autodesknoob;39170513]i have this thing stuck in my head.
Hows the gravity on mars? its like the one in the earth? less strong or stronger?[/QUOTE]
Weaker I think, since Mars is slightly smaller I think
[QUOTE=The DooD;39170583]Weaker I think, since Mars is slightly smaller I think[/QUOTE]
and a lot less dense
[QUOTE=NoDachi;39170222]To be fair half of facepunch practically live in solitary capsules already. It'll literally just be changing the window view.[/QUOTE]
What windows view?
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;39170794]What windows view?[/QUOTE]
XP
Mars has weaker gravity (~37% of Earth's) therefore anyone going to Mars will have a regimented 3hr workout period, just like the Astronauts currently aboard the ISS.
I don't think many of you understand the sacrifices that would be required to go. You are NOT coming home. You are going to Mars to stay on Mars for the [u]rest of your life[/u]. If anything goes wrong on the outpost, it will be [u]8mo.[/u] or more before rescue and supplies arrive. Depending on which group you're leaving with you'll be stuck with the [u]same 4-12 people[/u] for the [u]rest of your known life[/u]. Granted, on another world. At first you and your comrades will eat nothing but dehydrogenated food, recycle and drink your own piss, use your shit waste to power the stations, and will shower with the equivalent of hand wipes you get from restaurants like KFC after your meal. The journey will require 8 months of living in a tightly confined space with 3 other people as you make the trek to Mars. The space available to each of you would equate to living in a mini-van for 8 months. [u]Never[/u] being able to get out. Communication (if any) with home would be delayed by 8 minutes and would be a One-way conversation. So you can't just call your family and discuss how things are going. Because it is a reality endeavor, you will likely be televised most of the time and be required to make regular reports and statements about your fellow crew, the life of living as an astronaut, and anything else they want you to produce. Granted, you're several million miles away so... who the hell is going to force you if you don't want to?
Just a few tidbits to expect if you really want to go.
I'm crafting up my resume, the required 1 minute video, and more.
Also; the world public will choose who gets to go from a pre-selected group of approved applicants. So y'all better start working on your Youtube charisma.
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;39162601]Planetes anyone?[/QUOTE]
it'd be like the von braun
aka nobody on facepunch would even clear the first preliminary
[QUOTE=Keys;39170862]Mars has weaker gravity (~37% of Earth's) therefore anyone going to Mars will have a regimented 3hr workout period, just like the Astronauts currently aboard the ISS.
I don't think many of you understand the sacrifices that would be required to go. You are NOT coming home. You are going to Mars to stay on Mars for the [u]rest of your life[/u]. If anything goes wrong on the outpost, it will be [u]8mo.[/u] or more before rescue and supplies arrive. Depending on which group you're leaving with you'll be stuck with the [u]same 4-12 people[/u] for the [u]rest of your known life[/u]. Granted, on another world. At first you and your comrades will eat nothing but dehydrogenated food, recycle and drink your own piss, use your shit waste to power the stations, and will shower with the equivalent of hand wipes you get from restaurants like KFC after your meal. The journey will require 8 months of living in a tightly confined space with 3 other people as you make the trek to Mars. The space available to each of you would equate to living in a mini-van for 8 months. [u]Never[/u] being able to get out. Communication (if any) with home would be delayed by 8 minutes and would be a One-way conversation. So you can't just call your family and discuss how things are going. Because it is a reality endeavor, you will likely be televised most of the time and be required to make regular reports and statements about your fellow crew, the life of living as an astronaut, and anything else they want you to produce. Granted, you're several million miles away so... who the hell is going to force you if you don't want to?
Just a few tidbits to expect if you really want to go.
I'm crafting up my resume, the required 1 minute video, and more.
Also; the world public will choose who gets to go from a pre-selected group of approved applicants. So y'all better start working on your Youtube charisma.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't sound much worse than when humans took months to travel across a country, had to send a letter and wait a year for a response to be sent across the sea by sailboat.
And most of those "negatives" sound good to me.
- Not coming home
- Staying on Mars for rest of life
- Not showering much
- nice cozy small living space
- almost no contact with other people
So as far as I can tell from what little digging I've done, this project is actually bullshit and not possible and Mars One don't actually know what they're doing.
I'd go crazy living in a cramped up space with the same people.
Mars one, i love you.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;39167616]Psst. They don't send all the applicants.
They train a multiplicity of teams and only send the one that works.
Think of it as the big brother winners prize. To get launched.[/QUOTE]
Oh. I guess I need to be a better reader.
[QUOTE=The DooD;39171621]So as far as I can tell from what little digging I've done, this project is actually bullshit and not possible and Mars One don't actually know what they're doing.[/QUOTE]
Then you haven't done much digging.
[QUOTE=Keys;39170862]Mars has weaker gravity (~37% of Earth's) therefore anyone going to Mars will have a regimented 3hr workout period, just like the Astronauts currently aboard the ISS.
I don't think many of you understand the sacrifices that would be required to go. You are NOT coming home. You are going to Mars to stay on Mars for the [u]rest of your life[/u]. If anything goes wrong on the outpost, it will be [u]8mo.[/u] or more before rescue and supplies arrive. Depending on which group you're leaving with you'll be stuck with the [u]same 4-12 people[/u] for the [u]rest of your known life[/u]. Granted, on another world. At first you and your comrades will eat nothing but dehydrogenated food, recycle and drink your own piss, use your shit waste to power the stations, and will shower with the equivalent of hand wipes you get from restaurants like KFC after your meal. The journey will require 8 months of living in a tightly confined space with 3 other people as you make the trek to Mars. The space available to each of you would equate to living in a mini-van for 8 months. [u]Never[/u] being able to get out. Communication (if any) with home would be delayed by 8 minutes and would be a One-way conversation. So you can't just call your family and discuss how things are going. Because it is a reality endeavor, you will likely be televised most of the time and be required to make regular reports and statements about your fellow crew, the life of living as an astronaut, and anything else they want you to produce. Granted, you're several million miles away so... who the hell is going to force you if you don't want to?
Just a few tidbits to expect if you really want to go.
I'm crafting up my resume, the required 1 minute video, and more.
Also; the world public will choose who gets to go from a pre-selected group of approved applicants. So y'all better start working on your Youtube charisma.[/QUOTE]
All it requires is extreme tolerance. Something not many people have. I do.
[editline]11th January 2013[/editline]
I can tolerate Justin Bieber and Dubstep so I'm fine.
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;39170429]Oh man, we need some awesome vintage-style propaganda posters with clean-cut respectable men and women with huge letters saying "Join the space age! Sign up for the mars colonization program today!"[/QUOTE]
Someone please make this happen.
I have the feeling I'd never even be considered to be elected as a candidate.
Even if I were, I'd probably fail at the last stage because the universe hates me.
:<
[QUOTE=wulfe8857;39176171]Someone please make this happen.[/QUOTE]
Does something like this work?
[IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbyl8j1hWe1qit26bo1_1280.jpg[/IMG]
I ordered a T-shirt with this on it. :v:
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