Pete Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I see there are people competing to go to Mars and live there. I also note that this is likely a one way journey. So no hospitals and no one to care for you if you get ill. If you have a stroke or a heart attack then your on your own. No going out for meals or visiting friends. Years in a small place of living, Sand storms that can cover the planet for months and -20 c is as warm as it gets. If you get a leak in your space suit then you start to boil alive.On the plus side, there is plenty of rocks.Just wondering if anyone here would like to go if they got the chance. Link to comment
Seeker Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I was on the list, but I dropped out when I realised it was being run as a popularity contest and publicity stunt. Link to comment
Pete Posted February 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I was on the list, but I dropped out when I realised it was being run as a popularity contest and publicity stunt.Would you have gone if you had real chance of going? Link to comment
Seeker Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Who knows - the training will be pretty arduous and I might have bailed, but I definitely intended to give it a go. Link to comment
emalpaiz Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I have no desire to go to Mars in this incarnation.Hermano Luis Link to comment
Jonathan H. B. Lobl Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 In my younger days, I would have gone. Not now. Link to comment
LeopardBoy Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 I've had osteoporosis since the age of twelve so space travel has never been an option for me, whether I had any desire to go or not. Link to comment
Gwynn Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) I would like to travel and explore, but I would never take a journey that was only one way or took a great deal of time. I have a deep connection with my birthplace specifically and this planet in general, and I would prefer not to be away for too long . Edited February 26, 2015 by Gwynn Link to comment
panpareil Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 I would consider going if it was an act of homesteading. In other words, to claim the territory I explored for my own. Otherwise it is a waste of lives. What is to be gained for their families by the sacrifice of their lives. Explorers have usually been rewarded by a share of the discovery. Which in this case would be the property rights to Mars. Link to comment
Pastor Dave Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 20 or 30 years ago I would have been all over an opportunity to go to Mars. Now I don't think I would.Colonization is a job for the young, not so much for the young at heart.Personally, I think we need to set up "Moon Base Alpha" before we get serious about setting up shop on another planet. (JMO) Link to comment
Seeker Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 I see someone else came to a similar conclusion to mine...http://www.techspot.com/news/60071-mars-one-finalist-breaks-silence-claims-organization-total.html Link to comment
Songster Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 I have no desire to go to Mars in this incarnation. Hermano LuisNor the next!! Barren emptiness may be some folk's idea of Paradise, but I'll pass, thank you! Link to comment
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