Would you go to Mars on a one-way ticket?

[Ensign Steve]

No no no no no. No t*nn*r stages in the mars thread. This is science, not cloaca.

[Sophia]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

No no no no no. No t*nn*r stages in the mars thread. This is science, not cloaca.

The science of the cloaca is serious business. Conspire together with bimbo subversives of any Tanner stage and it'll come back to haunt you...

[Ensign Steve]

Day of Remembrance NASA Administrator Charles Bolden participates in a wreath-laying ceremony as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, at Arlington National Cemetery. Wreathes were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/image...ture_1852.html

[Ensign Steve]

On July 18 of 1969, as the world waited anxiously for Apollo 11 to land safely on the surface of the Moon, speechwriter William Safire imagined the worst case scenario as he expertly wrote the following sombre memo to President Nixon's Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. Its contents: a contingency plan, in the form of a speech to be read out by Nixon should astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the moon, never to return, followed by some brief instructions relating to its broadcast. Luckily for all those involved, the memo was never needed.

It still brings a tear to my eye even though it never even happened. To die in the name of space exploration ... I swear to you guys, I'm so in.

Letters of Note: IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER

The Final Frontier
To Boldly Go
To Infinity and Beyond
Make it so.

[Ymir's blood]

Good thing that they weren't trapped on that moonscape stage then!

[John Carter]

Since I am already there, I'll make sure there's a warm Helium style reception for ya, ES!



Seriously though, assuming sufficient technology to give us a decent chance for survival is available, I'd volunteer for colonization of Mars in a heartbeat.

[Sophia]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

I totally would.

It's the one-way part that's the definite deal-breaker for me. From a world so rich, beautiful and alive where there is so much to do - and so much that needs to be done - to a cold and lifeless desert? With no turning back? Probably not a good idea. Might make an okay scifi pc game plot or something. For a pc game I'd probably just dl off piratebay rather than spend any money on.

[Clutch Munny]

Yo John Carter in the house!

[Sophia]

Originally Posted by John Carter

Seriously though, assuming sufficient technology to give us a decent chance for survival is available, I'd volunteer for colonization of Mars in a heartbeat.

So what happens if you're there, the novelty has kinda worn off, and you're really, really craving a hot delivery of hawaiian style pizza?

See, that kind of thing is why I'd say no.

[John Carter]

ES, your post on Apollo 11 is fascinating. I had no idea!

Hey Clutch!

[John Carter]

Originally Posted by Sophia

So what happens if you're there, the novelty has kinda worn off, and you're really, really craving a hot delivery of hawaiian style pizza?

See, that kind of thing is why I'd say no.

I'm pretty sure that we'd be a bit busy staying alive, preparing for the next group of colonists and various other research activities.

[mulebear]

See. Ensign Steve and John Carter are fully accepting of their Giant Gay Bear Robot Martian Overlords.

[Kael]

Hey, I was onboard way back on page 1. Let's do this already!

[Sophia]

I'd go if the trip could be two-way. Mainly due to just wanting the experience out of a sense of wonder.

[Deadlokd]

Originally Posted by Sophia

I'd go if the trip could be two-way. Mainly due to just wanting the experience out of a sense of wonder.

Hey, you're gonna die anyway right? Go live a little. Pardon the pun.

[Sophia]

Originally Posted by Deadlokd

Hey, you're gonna die anyway right? Go live a little. Pardon the pun.

Probably. I'm more sure that you will though - sometimes, a hunch is one truly to trust.

Based on my docs' estimates, the last time I was cancer free before I got the earliest stage glioma, I was a pre-adolescent kid. So, in a way, that's who you are picking on - a kid who got raped by a tumor. On some level, you've known this all along; that's why you and your spiritual fascist buddies mock me as being so 'slow' and all. What's certain is that you really don't have even the most basic decency.

I oppose capital punishment, but if you were to somehow accidentally fell neck into a noose, I can't say I'd be too broken up over it. Allegorically and archetypically, when I saw Anne Frank cut out the throat of the Nazi Monster, just after surgery, one of those two was you. Guess which one? Hint: It wasn't Anne Frank.

I'm not going to be inhaling any zyklon b, but you can swallow that, you fucking spiritual babyraper.

[Sophia]

Originally Posted by Deadlokd

Hey, you're gonna die anyway right?

Hey, you just gave me a great idea. Or helped bring one of my own back to the surface. Thank you.

Anyway, you'd better hope my viral treatment works!

[erimir]

Oh, veiled threats of violence.

You sure have changed a lot since last time /sarcasm

[Deadlokd]

Originally Posted by Sophia

Probably. I'm more sure that you will though - sometimes, a hunch is one truly to trust.

Based on my docs' estimates, the last time I was cancer free before I got the earliest stage glioma, I was a pre-adolescent kid. So, in a way, that's who you are picking on - a kid who got raped by a tumor. On some level, you've known this all along; that's why you and your spiritual fascist buddies mock me as being so 'slow' and all. What's certain is that you really don't have even the most basic decency.

I oppose capital punishment, but if you were to somehow accidentally fell neck into a noose, I can't say I'd be too broken up over it. Allegorically and archetypically, when I saw Anne Frank cut out the throat of the Nazi Monster, just after surgery, one of those two was you. Guess which one? Hint: It wasn't Anne Frank.

I'm not going to be inhaling any zyklon b, but you can swallow that, you fucking spiritual babyraper.

[Thanks] for the custom user title.

[Cliche Guevara]

So I wander in here to see if I need a visa and if there are any precautionary travel advisories for Mars, and what do I see? The word "rape", which seems to be on every fucking thread on this board at the moment. Rape, rape, rape, rape, rape.

I'm here for the Mars, arsehole! For. The. MARS.

Mars:



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Martians:

[Ensign Steve]

The Russians are already there!

The crew of the Mars500 simulated mission to the Red Planet have reached a key milestone.

The six men, sealed since June inside steel containers representing a spacecraft, have "gone into orbit" at their destination.

Three of the group will now "descend" to the planet, don real spacesuits and walk on the "surface" of Mars.

...

Mars500 is so called because it simulates the duration of a possible human Mars mission in the future using conventional propulsion: 250 days for the trip to the Red Planet, 30 days on the Martian surface and 240 days for the return journey, totalling 520 days. (In reality, it would probably take a lot longer than this.)

The six men are due "back on Earth" in November.

BBC News - Mars500 crew 'arrives at Red Planet' on simulated mission

...and 240 days for the return journey...

[Ymir's blood]

I heard that the simulated Martians were just sock puppets due to budget constraints. Lame.

[Ensign Steve]

Be A Martian Citizen!

[JoeP]

Awesome!

It wants me to install Microsoft Silverlight

eta: Tried to install (actually upgrade from silverlight 3 to 4) in a vm. Failed. Fuck Microsoft.

[Ensign Steve]

Private US company SpaceX hopes to put an astronaut on Mars within 10 to 20 years, the head of the firm said.

"We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."

SpaceX is one of the two leading private space companies in the United States and has won $75 million from the US space agency NASA to help its pursuit of developing a spacecraft to replace the space shuttle.

The California-based company last year completed its first successful test of an unmanned space capsule into orbit and back.

"Our goal is to facilitate the transfer of people and cargo to other planets, and then it will be up to people if they want to go," said Musk, who also runs the Tesla company which develops electric cars.

The US space shuttle program is winding down later this year with final flights of Endeavour set for next week and Atlantis in June, ending an era of American spaceflight that began with the first space shuttle mission in 1981.

When the shuttle program ends, the United States hopes private industry will be able to fill the gap by creating the next generation of spacecraft to transport astronauts into space.

SpaceX aims to put man on Mars in 10-20 years