Re: Would you go to Mars on a one-way ticket?
I'll go on trip 10 or so. After heroic explorers have bravely discovered what we overlooked in the planning phase. Most likely by dying of whatever it was we didn't plan for. I suspect there is a good chance that those first colonists are going to end up like one of the early failed colonization attempts of the Americas... nasty, ugly failures that involve lots of deprivation, starvation and violence, with any hope of aid from home more than a year away. I really find the idea terrifying.
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