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Started by Siz, July 27, 2012, 02:35:11 PM

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Siz

July 27, 2012, 02:35:11 PM
http://io9.com/5929213/up-for-grabs-a-ticket-to-mars-tryouts-start-in-2013?tag=astronomy

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...

When one sleeps on the floor one need not worry about falling out of bed - Anton LaVey

The universe is a cold, uncaring void. The key to happiness isn't a search for meaning, it's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually you'll be dead!

Asmodean

#1
July 27, 2012, 03:23:46 PM
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.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

OldGit

#2
July 27, 2012, 04:00:33 PM
Can Asmos get by on 0.13% Oxygen?

Firebird

#3
July 27, 2012, 04:00:43 PM
I don't wanna go, but I can think of plenty of people I would "volunteer" :)
"Great, replace one book about an abusive, needy asshole with another." - Will (moderator) on replacing hotel Bibles with "Fifty Shades of Grey"

Crow

#4
July 27, 2012, 07:07:54 PM
I kinda wanna go.
Retired member.

hismikeness

#5
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.
No churches have free wifi because they don't want to compete with an invisible force that works.

When the alien invasion does indeed happen, if everyone would just go out into the streets & inexpertly play the flute, they'll just go. -@UncleDynamite

markmcdaniel

#6
July 28, 2012, 06:12:17 AM
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.
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science - Charles Darwin

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the object of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a god, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. - Albert Einstein

Religion is a by product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity. - Arther C. Clarke

Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche

markmcdaniel

#7
July 28, 2012, 06:14:40 AM
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.
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science - Charles Darwin

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the object of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a god, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. - Albert Einstein

Religion is a by product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity. - Arther C. Clarke

Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Asmodean

#8
July 28, 2012, 09:32:22 AM
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.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

OldGit

#9
July 28, 2012, 09:38:23 AM
Quote from: His Gray Eminence
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.

jumbojak

#10
July 28, 2012, 03:18:02 PM
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




"Amazing what chimney sweeping can teach us, no? Keep your fire hot and
your flue clean."  - Ecurb Noselrub

"I'd be incensed by your impudence were I not so impressed by your memory." - Siz

Asmodean

#11
July 28, 2012, 04:13:00 PM
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.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

Icarus

#12
August 06, 2012, 06:40:31 PM
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.

Sandra Craft

#13
August 07, 2012, 03:42:33 AM
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.
Sandy

  

"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet."  Sarah Louise Delany

DeterminedJuliet

#14
August 07, 2012, 05:36:57 AM
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
"We've thought of life by analogy with a journey, with pilgrimage which had a serious purpose at the end, and the THING was to get to that end; success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you're dead. But, we missed the point the whole way along; It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing, or dance, while the music was being played.
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