Topic: Mars-One: Human Settlement on Mars in 2023

squeegee !first/o5zA started this discussion 13 years ago #25,413

Mars One is a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to establish a human settlement on Mars through the integration of existing, readily available technologies from industry leaders world-wide. Mars One intends to fund this decade-long endeavor by involving the whole world as the audience of an interactive, televised broadcast of every aspect of this mission, from the astronaut selections and their preparations to the arrival on Mars and their lives on the Red Planet.
http://mars-one.com/en/

Think American Idol/Big Brother for astronauts. they figure it'll take 8 years to train people to go, and think that all the technologies we need already exist today. it's simply a matter of raising the funds and finding qualified people willing to go.
Sounds pretty cool, no? where do i sign up, right?
Hold on a minute, it's a one way trip.
What? You don't come back?
No sir. You live the rest of your life on Mars. Still sound pretty cool?

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Poll option	Votes	Percentage	Graph
fuck yeah, i'd go	1	100%
what you talkin' bout Willis?	-	0%

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later[^] [v] #387,613

@OP
That's a joke site, selling merchandise.

squeegee !first/o5zA (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #387,616

@previous (B)
no doubt, but the theory is sound. would you go if you couldn't return? would you even go at all?

Anonymous B replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #387,617

@previous (squeegee !first/o5zA)
no unless it was me and 7 hot chicks. Even then probably no

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #387,619

I would love to get my ass to Mars. I'm sure other people would too, even if they had to stay there. I don't think something like this is possible yet though. :(

squeegee !first/o5zA (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 13 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #387,621

@previous (C)
i like the companies that are wanting to mine asteroids. in 15 or 20 years we may have some kind of manufacturing infrastructure up there and then we can really start to look at having large scale colonies in space or on the moon.

i think it'd be awesome to go, even if i died doing it.
but i don't see any pressing need to send people to mars right now. robots are doing just fine.

Green joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 18 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #387,775

I imagine a war between earth and mars in the distant future.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #387,808

@previous (Green)
I imagine a war between your liver and all the beer you drink in the near future.

And I don't imagine your liver winning the war.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #387,816

@previous (E)

> I imagine a war between your liver and all the beer you drink in the near future.
>
> And I don't imagine your liver winning the war.

haha

TheSheep !kJ.A4PF7.k joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 59 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #387,817

Here is why I would go, used Coco Zurita's pic to explain.

Pic 1/2 - earth gravity.

TheSheep !kJ.A4PF7.k double-posted this 13 years ago, 40 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #387,818

Pic 2/2 - Mars gravity.

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