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So who wants to fly to Mars... one way?
So who wants to fly to Mars... one way? Mission for volunteers receives over 1,000 applications from budding astronauts before it was even announced
Dutch firm plans reality TV show to choose its team Plans to land four astronauts on the red planet in 2023, with four more arriving every two years By Mark Prigg PUBLISHED: 12:53 EST, 9 January 2013 | UPDATED: 08:56 EST, 10 January 2013 To boldly go where no man has gone before is quite a challenge. But to boldly go knowing that you will never return to Earth may be asking a bit too much. This has not deterred a Dutch-led research institute, however, which has launched a search for volunteers to take part in a one-way mission to Mars... where they would set up a human settlement. Successful candidates will have to undergo eight years of training before blast-off in 2023. The Mars One Institute pulled no punches yesterday: ‘They should realise that if this project is successful, they won’t be coming back.’ Former NASA researcher Norbert Kraft, Mars One’s medical director, said: ‘Gone are the days when bravery and the number of hours flying a supersonic jet were the top criteria for selection. 'Now, we are more concerned with how well each astronaut works and lives with the others – and for a lifetime of challenges ahead.’ Mars One aims to raise money to help fund the project through a long-running, global, reality TV show, which will select the first 24 candidates and follow their training. Viewers would vote for who should be on the first team of four to leave Earth in ten years time. By 2033 the colony would reach 20 settlers. Journey time to Mars, which is approximately 40million miles away depending on its position in orbit, would be around 200 days. Settlers would encounter a barren, cratered landscape, an unbreathable atmosphere made up of 95 per cent carbon dioxide and temperatures ranging from 35C to minus 135C. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...lications.html |
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I don't know of any "genesis" type of self contained object for something like that. I was assuming more along the lines of greenhouses which would require people on site to construct all types of buildings as well. Thinking they better like MREs and vitamin supplements.
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If they set up more then enough tools to help colonize it. Which would take forever and streamed me all sorts of entertainment. Sure.
But if the can set up a colony. They can set up a launch pad/air strip to get off. The first colonists should write roanoke on a rock to **** with the newcomers. |
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So somebody watched Defying Gravity on ABC a few years ago.
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01-10-2013, 02:57 PM | #67 |
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Actually I think this is a pretty brilliant idea. But I will not be going. Not leavin my family and not takin them on this trip. Maybe we'll try the road trip to wallyworld instead.
Prelaunch several supply pods before the 1st group of colonists arrive, so they can get to work immediately. Kinda like some pre-fab buildings to construct with solar/wind heaters and generators, tons of tools, greenhouse supplies with soil, h2o, seeds. Might work... |
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It was a great six episodes (in the US and five more in Canada and GBR).
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I'd create the ship in orbit here first, with a greenhouse that can grow food. Once it had been shown to be capible of growing enough food for 10 people on a sustainable basis, then I'd send it off toward mars. Then, when you get there, you have a greenhouse that can operate in Mars orbit, or it can be sent down to the surface. For that matter, food could be grown and sent to the surface for a year or two until the colonists on the planet are able to be self sustained.
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Finally! A show to send your ex wives on!
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Me too. Also the fact their diet would probably be mostly vegetarian would limit who would want to go as well.
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I would think in both instances Martian soil and moon soil would be insufficient to grow crops, even at the right temperatures.
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You would think they'd want farmers there right off the bat. If they will just establish a few sows I could supply the semen.
Which has me thinkin maybe they should send a female gorilla and we could send 3 idiots along and before you know it we would have established a planet of the apes. |
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