Poll: Would you take a one way trip to mars?
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Assuming the living conditions there are adequate, you bet your fucking ass I would. I could live in a box so long as it had an internet connection.
I had to contemplate this one for awhile. For me it would be based off a few factors. I'm only 26 now, but say I get this opportunity at say age 70. You are damn right I would do it. Perhaps if I had terminal cancer, once again I'd do it.
I'd rather sacrifice a few years of being miserable in a nursing home or dying of cancer to be the first man on Mars.
I'd rather sacrifice a few years of being miserable in a nursing home or dying of cancer to be the first man on Mars.
If it was just me, I couldn't do it, there would be no point. BUT if there was a 5% of humans going there and my life was complete crap or if the Earth was doomed, I would go then.
But by myself, I don't think I could do anything. (least without internet and a girl)
But by myself, I don't think I could do anything. (least without internet and a girl)
I don't see why going to Mars has to be a one-way job. I mean, I'm no astronaut...or physicist, but I am a University student and not a complete retard.
Let's take the Apollo mission template. Shoot a spacecraft to the moon. the main bit stays in orbit while a lander goes down to the body and some dudes play golf, drive a funky car and possibly get eaten by moonrock spiders.
Why can't we have a large spacecraft that leaves the ISS after having been built in orbit with a landing/retrieval craft? Takes however long to get to Mars, and deploys the first martian colony buildings from orbit, including the lander.
Martianaut comes out, assembles Mars base 1, plays golf, drives a marsbuggy, presumably doesnt get eaten by marsrock spiders, gets back in his lander, shoots off back to the spacecraft in orbit, and sods off home again?
Yes it's probably cheaper to send somebody on a suicide mission to mars but who are you gonna get to sign up for that?
Let's take the Apollo mission template. Shoot a spacecraft to the moon. the main bit stays in orbit while a lander goes down to the body and some dudes play golf, drive a funky car and possibly get eaten by moonrock spiders.
Why can't we have a large spacecraft that leaves the ISS after having been built in orbit with a landing/retrieval craft? Takes however long to get to Mars, and deploys the first martian colony buildings from orbit, including the lander.
Martianaut comes out, assembles Mars base 1, plays golf, drives a marsbuggy, presumably doesnt get eaten by marsrock spiders, gets back in his lander, shoots off back to the spacecraft in orbit, and sods off home again?
Yes it's probably cheaper to send somebody on a suicide mission to mars but who are you gonna get to sign up for that?
On my own? No. I'd go nuts. On the other hand, as part of a one way colonization project? So long as my spouse and a reasonable number of people willing and able to make it work are also going? Hell yeah.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Then when humanity does finally manage to get to Mars safely and sets up colonies, they can give me a proper burial and build a statue of me on the spot where I died.Ando85 said:
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Then when humanity figures out how to get people to and from Mars safely and start setting up colonies, they can give me a proper burial and build a statue of me on the spot that I died.Ando85 said: