I was going by this quote from the original article:
"Mars One only asks that applicants be at least 18 years of age (they will be 28 by the time they land on Mars), speak English and don
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I was going by this quote from the original article:
"Mars One only asks that applicants be at least 18 years of age (they will be 28 by the time they land on Mars), speak English and don
You're absolutely right! And this is when I get to pull out my favorite excuse for brain farts of this magnitude: It's the brain tumor I had. It affected my ability to think clearly!But they're not leaving this year...
Just wondering if any of you who think you WOULD go for something like this, what do you think your life would be like? Do you think you'd go nuts after a while? I know I would. Wouldn't you miss what you've left behind? Knowing that it's not reversible, regardless of what happens to you, your mind, your family, whatever, how would you deal with that?
You're wrong. Mars already has inhabitants. I work with them daily.
Depends on whether I'd be able to get a 3G signal.
Yes, I see it much more as the latter. Kind of like being banished with no way back.But I guess it would be a bit like the first immigrants to make the move to North America from Europe, but worse. More like the English prisoners being shipped to Australia, knowing they can never go back.
So true, so true.But I'm sure that for some people it would be a dream come true - SPACE TRAVEL!!! And you could actually call yourself in all sincerity a Martian! It would be like living in a Ray Bradbury story!
Baaad plan: a place like that you'll need all of your resources to survive, so removing yourself will endanger everyone else.I wonder if individual doses of cyanide are included among the supplies each colonist will take with them...
How many hotties are going with me? Because I'm not going if its gonna be a sausage fest!
If not for the fact that I WOULDN'T want to spend the rest of my life on Mars, I'd go if the rest of the group was all guys. Of course, I don't know how much of a "hottie" I'd be considered at this point in my life... Disabled, out of shape, middle aged... Yeah, let's just scratch the whole idea. :laugh:How many hotties are going with me? Because I'm not going if its gonna be a sausage fest!
I see the point you're making, but suicide will SURELY be part of the aftermath of this project. Once the reality sinks in that there's no way home, you're stuck on Mars with its inhospitable environment, there's virtually nothing to do, almost no one to socialize with, etc., boredom and, most likely, insanity will follow. So if not pre-supplied cyanide, they'll find some other way.Baaad plan: a place like that you'll need all of your resources to survive, so removing yourself will endanger everyone else.I wonder if individual doses of cyanide are included among the supplies each colonist will take with them...
That's just it, though, @davoid. There's no way the infrastructure up there can possibly be ready for that kind of demanding use by the time the first colonists arrive. And there will only be a handful of them. So there will be neither huge numbers of people to socialize with nor the kind of entertainment you're talking about. And then what happens when their Internet connection goes down?! I'm in the technology epicenter of the world, California, and have had to go for as long as three WEEKS without Internet after rain caused a widespread outage.
What would happen to them if their power failed? or their water source? Of course there will be backup systems in place for everything but, still, redundancy is no 100% guarantee.
And if it does, I believe many FORMERLY enthusiastic would-be colonists will decide it's not really their cup of tea.I think perhaps the training on earth will involve isolating them for years so they get used to it enough.
I doubt that offspring and their potential problems will be an issue--because I can't convince myself anyone will live long enough up there to HAVE children. I'm just not seeing how the insanity factor won't kick in.The other thing I would wonder about is offspring. How would it be for the child/children growing up in such an environment. With the lower gravity on Mars, their physical development will be different than if they had grown up on earth. These offspring would have difficulty functioning on earth if they every came here as our gravity is higher than on Mars.
These offspring would have difficulty functioning on earth if they every came here as our gravity is higher than on Mars.
I'm down for a moon colony. Whose in?
Anyone ever watch that reality show "The Colony"? I actually enjoyed that
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