mars one plans suicide mission to red planet for 2023

[bcbm]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/24/is-mars-one-serious-about-suicide-mission-to-red-planet/

[Clifford C Clavin]

Can we send a Leninist?

[Book O'Dead]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/24/is-mars-one-serious-about-suicide-mission-to-red-planet/

As you know, Mars Science Lab, Curiosity, is only days away from landing on Mars:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

Even though I'm the most unscientific motherfucker in the world, I love science and space exploration.

I'm not in favor of human exploration beyond Mars and the moon (even those two make me wince a little at the potential cost and risks involved), but I think that robotic exploration is the way to go.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Can we send a Leninist?

Verbal warning for sectarian baiting.

[cynicles]

Can we trick all the fascists with free tight black t-shirts into going instead?

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I think that would be awesome and worth the chance. Live on a colony on Mars? Hell yeah. I'd love just to get into space, maybe a colony on the moon. It's the last frontier you know, people gonna die most likely.

[ckaihatsu]

inb4 'Anti-imperialists against the colonization of Mars!'


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[Art Vandelay]

There is no way in hell I would be down for that...

[Princess Luna]

Can we trick all the fascists with free tight black t-shirts into going instead?
they don't deserve the honor of being the first humans on mars


As you know, Mars Science Lab, Curiosity, is only days away from landing on Mars:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

Even though I'm the most unscientific motherfucker in the world, I love science and space exploration.

I'm not in favor of human exploration beyond Mars and the moon (even those two make me wince a little at the potential cost and risks involved), but I think that robotic exploration is the way to go.
I don't see what the problem with human exploration beyond mars and the moon is, assuming the people involved are comfortable with the risks. Of course robots should go first, but after robots have been sent enough times it is only logical to send an actual human being.

[Raúl Duke]

Other news sources that talked about "Mars One" did not use the term "suicide mission," although I'm not surprised Fox "news" did.

I like the idea, hell I'll go; this planet is depressing.

[ckaihatsu]

Other news sources that talked about "Mars One" did not use the term "suicide mission," although I'm not surprised Fox "news" did.

I like the idea, hell I'll go; this planet is depressing.


You, sir, will truly make it a *red* planet...!


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[Book O'Dead]

Other news sources that talked about "Mars One" did not use the term "suicide mission," although I'm not surprised Fox "news" did.

I like the idea, hell I'll go; this planet is depressing.

You think this planet's depressing? Mars is a fucking wasteland!
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[Book O'Dead]

they don't deserve the honor of being the first humans on mars


I don't see what the problem with human exploration beyond mars and the moon is, assuming the people involved are comfortable with the risks. Of course robots should go first, but after robots have been sent enough times it is only logical to send an actual human being.

The cost of keeping humans alive and well in outer space is prohibitive compared to the cost of robotic exploration.

For eaxmple, a one-way trip to Mars takes at least 8 or 9 months when the orbits are correctly aligned.
Upon arriving, another 10 or 12 months must pass before a return trip can be considered at conventional speeds.
So what you're looking at is a space journey and Mars visit of at least 3 years for it to have any meaning at all.

Imagine the cost and technology required to achieve this feat!

[ckaihatsu]

You think this planet's depressing? Mars is a fucking wasteland!


*Everyone* knows that they haven't even *heard* of Britney Spears...!

How backward is *that* -- ?!


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[#FF0000]

guys wait a minute

guys

what if a bunch of communists go and

guys

start a commune on mars

[ckaihatsu]

guys wait a minute

guys

what if a bunch of communists go and

guys

start a commune on mars


Dude.

No wait, just shut up for a minute.

Really. Dude.

Like what if -- no, wait -- really, now -- like a bunch of communists just like show-up Obama and show us what a Marxist *planet* is *really* like...!

Whoa....

[Book O'Dead]

guys wait a minute

guys

what if a bunch of communists go and

guys

start a commune on mars

That's the theme of The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, except it takes place on Anarres, a habitable moon of planet Urras, in another solar system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Dispossessed.html?id=fk8rAQAAIAAJ

https://public.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/dispossessed.html

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-dispossessed

[piet11111]

To help fund the project, Lansdorp says there could be a reality show based on the selection process and test colony. Paul Römer, the co-founder and executive producer of the show "Big Brother," is an adviser for Mars One. Other advisers include Nobel Prize winner Dr. Gerard 't Hooft and Brian Enke, an analyst at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who studies space missions.

Ok so we have reality tv producers and actual scientists who work on studying ways to make it possible to send small groups of people on long space trips.

My money would be on this just being a tv show with maybe marginal scientific use and the whole trip to mars as the lure for the people signing up for this.

[Comrades Unite!]

Chap has seen 2001 one too many times.

There is no chance anyone in their right mind would willfully go along with this.

[ColonelCossack]

Can we send a Leninist?

I would volunteer.

Seriously. Otherwise it's just monotony until you die. I wanna go out with a bang! But then I have been obsessed with space since I was 5.

[ColonelCossack]

Dude.

No wait, just shut up for a minute.

Really. Dude.

Like what if -- no, wait -- really, now -- like a bunch of communists just like show-up Obama and show us what a Marxist *planet* is *really* like...!

Whoa....

And it's the Red Planet! Guys! Guys!

[ckaihatsu]

I would volunteer.

Seriously. Otherwise it's just monotony until you die. I wanna go out with a bang! But then I have been obsessed with space since I was 5.


Y'know, now that we're talking about it, people have often *asked* me why I don't just relocate myself to Mars....


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Until now I took comfort in the fact that it was impossible, but *now*...!


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[Book O'Dead]

I would volunteer.

Seriously. Otherwise it's just monotony until you die. I wanna go out with a bang! But then I have been obsessed with space since I was 5.

I'd love to go up to the ISS and stay there for a few days. I'd love to experience micro-G at least once in my lifetime. It would be fascinating to witness with my own eyes and from a distancethe enormity of my home planet, Pachamama.

Just the thought alone of taking a long space trip away from home makes me homesick for Mother Earth. No amount of scientific curiosity could pull me away from this paradise.

[cynicles]

they don't deserve the honor of being the first humans on mars



Maybe they don't make it to mars. Maybe they have a little accident somewhere in the middle of space. Maybe they run out of oxygen and jet fuel. Maybe someone sabotages the mission. Maybe they die!