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QuoteNext year, Mars One will hold a worldwide lottery to select 40 people to train to be civilian astronauts. That group will be sent to live in a desert simulation for three months, after which the initial pool will be whittled down to 10. By 2023, this group will be sent to Mars to form the first permanent human settlement.
Any takers?
If only I hadn't booked that holiday to Skegness next year...
I don't see what people who comment whine about. You can get proper people to go for a suicide run - not all of us consider the continuation of our own existence the ultimate ideology. If it fails, so what? Long and lonely death turned fireball... Not a problem. If people cut some corners - well... See previous point.
Hey! Let's send useless people to Mars as an experiment! :D
Needless to say, I'm all for it no matter how badly planned and unlikely to succeed it seems. It's gonna be interesting, and I don't ask for more from something proposed as entertainment.
Can Asmos get by on 0.13% Oxygen?
I don't wanna go, but I can think of plenty of people I would "volunteer" :)
I kinda wanna go.
I would go in a heartbeat, but I'm guessing they'll have a size limit which I will exceed.
Quote from: Firebird on July 27, 2012, 04:00:43 PM
I don't wanna go, but I can think of plenty of people I would "volunteer" :)
Politician, religious leaders, and conspiracy fanatics would be my preference. All of these herds need a good culling.
Quote from: hismikeness on July 27, 2012, 11:17:42 PM
I would go in a heartbeat, but I'm guessing they'll have a size limit which I will exceed.
I think I would need my legs back to qualify, oh well.
Quote from: OldGit on July 27, 2012, 04:00:33 PM
Can Asmos get by on 0.13% Oxygen?
As long as there is enough hate, despair and other misery to sustain them, they need no atmospheric gases, actually.
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Quote from: OldGit
Can Asmos get by on 0.13% Oxygen?
As long as there is enough hate, despair and other misery to sustain them, they need no atmospheric gases, actually.
But it makes it hard to store enough live babies and kittens for culinary purposes.
Hell yeah I'd go! The trouble would be getting me to come home when the mission was over. Something like the movie Mission To Mars I think. One guy, all alone, on a hostile planet with nothing more than a greenhouse tent to keep him alive. Now that sounds like a vacation
Quote from: OldGit on July 28, 2012, 09:38:23 AM
But it makes it hard to store enough live babies and kittens for culinary purposes.
Yes. The hardships of being an Asmo are... Hard.
I suggest that we send the whole Westboro Baptist congregation. On second thought they might not like it there because there will be no homosexual funerals to picket. But we could snooker 'em into believeing that they'd be nearer to god on Mars than in Wichita.
Quote from: hismikeness on July 27, 2012, 11:17:42 PM
I would go in a heartbeat, but I'm guessing they'll have a size limit which I will exceed.
And an age limit, which I probably exceed. But if I were young and healthy and had no dependants, I would be there.
I think I am too soft and squishy to go. They probably require that you can do a pull-up or push-up or something, which is a deal-breaker for me. :P
LOL me too! Though I like to think that I have enough fat stored to be able to survive in case something happened, haha. Plus the cold wouldn't bother me because of my "insulating layer of blubber"! But really, I'm 46 so I'd be out anyway. I would, however, like to at least get on the edge of space or orbit or something before I die. Alas, however, I'm not a millionaire.