11-15-2010, 02:43 PM
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California Sober
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Silicon Valley
Gender: Bender
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Would you go to Mars on a one-way ticket?
I totally would.
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Two scientists contend human travel to Mars could happen much more quickly and cheaply if the missions are made one-way. They argue that it would be little different from early settlers to North America, who left Europe with little expectation of return.
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Davies and Schulze-Makuch say it's important to realize they're not proposing a "suicide mission."
"The astronauts would go to Mars with the intention of staying for the rest of their lives, as trailblazers of a permanent human Mars colony,"
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Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars - Yahoo! News
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