Who wants to be a Mars colonist?

by **Conserative Morality** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 2:39 am

It'd certainly be interesting. Don't think I'm cut out for it, but it's a major step if they can actually get this project going.

by **Ovisterra** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 2:42 am

Count me out. Being cooped up in a ship with three other people for six months before being stranded, millions of miles from home with these people for the rest of your life is not my idea of fun.

My problem is, I don't get on with people that well.

by **Dromoda** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 2:47 am

il join

by **The Joseon Dynasty** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 2:48 am

No. I find Mars interesting, but from my armchair in the living room. Nothing more than that.

by **Conscentia** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 4:06 am

Ovisterra wrote:Count me out. Being cooped up in a ship with three other people for six months before being stranded, millions of miles from home with these people for the rest of your life is not my idea of fun.

My problem is, I don't get on with people that well.

There are far more people on Earth.

by **Sociobiology** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 6:00 am

Dracoria wrote:No way. Can you imagine the web latency?

yeah but think of the bandwidth you would have. plus no pvp laws.
I would colonize the shit out of mars.
I'd be the guy they would only see once every couple of weeks because I would be out looking for fossils every waking moment I could. plus I can tunnel like John Henry on speed.
"Look man, stop digging you're increasing the volume of the habitat faster than we can make air to fill it."

by **Czechanada** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 6:33 am

Ovisterra wrote:Count me out. Being cooped up in a ship with three other people for six months before being stranded, millions of miles from home with these people for the rest of your life is not my idea of fun.

My problem is, I don't get on with people that well.

Nonsense. Think of all the sex one will have in such a compressed environment.

by **The USOT** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 7:10 am

Ovisterra wrote:Count me out. Being cooped up in a ship with three other people for six months before being stranded, millions of miles from home with these people for the rest of your life is not my idea of fun.

My problem is, I don't get on with people that well.

Neither do I, but I look at it as an interesting potential to create culture. As a games designer who is interested in becoming a teacher, I feel like I could contribute to the culture of a new world/help with the education of a new generation of humans on the world. I may not be the most sociable person in the world, but the chance to have such an impact on history both as a colonist and as a cultural creator is (to me) breathtaking.

by **Czechanada** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:08 am

The USOT wrote:
Ovisterra wrote:Count me out. Being cooped up in a ship with three other people for six months before being stranded, millions of miles from home with these people for the rest of your life is not my idea of fun.

My problem is, I don't get on with people that well.

Neither do I, but I look at it as an interesting potential to create culture. As a games designer who is interested in becoming a teacher, I feel like I could contribute to the culture of a new world/help with the education of a new generation of humans on the world. I may not be the most sociable person in the world, but the chance to have such an impact on history both as a colonist and as a cultural creator is (to me) breathtaking.

Yeah. We could make our own language. Take the best features from other languages, like in how in Czech a letter is pronounced directly how it is written, and get rid of the inefficiencies in English, like all those damn homonyms.

by **Saiwania** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:13 am

What I want to know is how they will grow food and where their renewable source of water will come from. My expectation is that without continuous intervention from Earth, a colony on Mars is doomed to quickly die off.

by **Czechanada** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:16 am

Saiwania wrote:What I want to know is how they will grow food and where their renewable source of water will come from. My expectation is that without continuous intervention from Earth, a colony on Mars is doomed to quickly die off.

Not if we have enough power-ups in our Mars base:

by **American and Latin Territories** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:22 am

Genivaria wrote:
The Mars One organisation has revealed details of its plans to land four astronauts on the Red Planet in 2023, with four additional 'crew' arriving every two years.

The organisation said that it had had more than 1,000 volunteers for the mission, who emailed in via the foundation's website.

Selection of the astronauts will begin next year, the Dutch organisation says.

The trip to the planned 'colony' would be one-way - and the astronaut volunteers will live and die on Mars.

Mars One aims to finance a mission to Mars via donations from corporations, people - and by creating a reality show-style 'media event' around the training and selection of its astronauts.

The Dutch company is backed by Nobel prize winning physicist, Gerard 't Hooft - and by Paul Romer, co-creator of Big Brother.

Mars One also announced that it had become a not-for-profit foundation.

"With more than 850,000 unique visitors to the website, Mars One has received thousands of emails," the Dutch company said in an email today.

"Among those emails were more than one thousand requests from individuals who desire to go to Mars--well before the launch of the Astronaut Selection Program. Furthermore, Mars One is supported by a large groups of advisers and ambassadors, among them an astronaut, a Nobel prize winning physicist and several NASA scientists."

Bas Lansdorp, co-founder and President of Mars-One offers, “A foundation more accurately represents how the Mars One team feels about this mission, and how the world has embraced our plan, even in this early stage.

"We receive so many kind and supportive emails, people offer donations or offer to helpin whatever way they can. The conversion to a foundation represents that going to Mars is something we do as a united world.”

In the first half of 2013 Mars One will launch the Astronaut Selection Program, a search to find the best candidates for the 'next giant leap of mankind'. The search will be global, open to every person from every nation. As a Foundation, Mars One will be the owner of the human outpost on Mars, the simulation bases on Earth, and the employer of the astronauts, both in training here on Earth, and those on Mars.

Arno Wielders, co-founder and technical director of Mars One: “Sending humans to Mars has been my dream for twenty years. Evidently, I am not alone--we have received emails from over fifty countries."

"People in thirty seven countries have purchased our merchandise, demonstrating their support for Mars One. Regardless of their background, people are positive about this optimistic event that we believe will bring people of Earth a little bit closer together.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPh310i ... e=g-high-u
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/mars-one-finds ... 57378.html

It has BEGUN! First the Solar System, the the Milky Way, and then.....THE UNIVERSE!!!
Anyway so what do ya'll think? Excited about colonization attempts in your life-time? Skeptical that it will work?
Would YOU volunteer to spend the rest of your days on Mars?
I might, just so I can be on Humanity's new frontier.

Except that the Universe is expanding faster than light, which means we'll NEVER catch up until it slows down.

by **Kangaralis Varangius** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:23 am

Count me in! Where do I volunteer to be a Mars Colonist?

by **American and Latin Territories** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:29 am

Divair wrote:
Tmutarakhan wrote:Maybe the Israelis and the Palestinians can flip a coin for which group goes?

Or just send the entire Middle East to Mars. Should solve a lot of problems in the world.

Except then we'd all invade the uninhabited Middle East for oil and cause WW3!

by **Divair** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:29 am

American and Latin Territories wrote:
Divair wrote:Or just send the entire Middle East to Mars. Should solve a lot of problems in the world.

Except then we'd all invade the uninhabited Middle East for oil and cause WW3!

That's implying we don't send the oil to Mars with them.

by **Great Nepal** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:31 am

American and Latin Territories wrote:
Divair wrote:Or just send the entire Middle East to Mars. Should solve a lot of problems in the world.

Except then we'd all invade the uninhabited Middle East for oil and cause WW3!

Fine interest of preventing WW3, you can name me as supreme emperor of Middle east. We can then name it international peace zone and my personal property.

by **Czechanada** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:31 am

Divair wrote:
American and Latin Territories wrote:Except then we'd all invade the uninhabited Middle East for oil and cause WW3!

That's implying we don't send the oil to Mars with them.

That'd be hilarious if underneath the surface of Mars there were far more natural resources than in the Middle East.

by **Divair** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:35 am

Czechanada wrote:
Divair wrote:That's implying we don't send the oil to Mars with them.

That'd be hilarious if underneath the surface of Mars there were far more natural resources than in the Middle East.

Remember when someone said that Curiosity had found something historic last month? It was oil. The USA is just keeping it secret

by **Harkback Union** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:40 am

I can already See BP Drilling on mars.
A Few months later, Their tanker crashes into a satelite, and we will have a huge oilspill orbiting earth, blocking all the sunlight...
Awesome!

by **The USOT** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:41 am

Saiwania wrote:What I want to know is how they will grow food and where their renewable source of water will come from. My expectation is that without continuous intervention from Earth, a colony on Mars is doomed to quickly die off.

Farming can be done in biodomes. I dont know where the renewable source of water will come from admittedly...

by **Lindenholt** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:45 am

Is there internet?? so i can play NS while there

by **Lindenholt** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:47 am

The USOT wrote:
Saiwania wrote:What I want to know is how they will grow food and where their renewable source of water will come from. My expectation is that without continuous intervention from Earth, a colony on Mars is doomed to quickly die off.

Farming can be done in biodomes. I dont know where the renewable source of water will come from admittedly...

Water can be produced from the Hydrogen and the Oxygen out there actually it has everything to let us live there. We can terraform it VERY easily in 50 to 100 years.

by **Chinamerica** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 8:49 am

No thank you. I probably wouldn't like travelling 36 million miles away from Earth to a place man has never been to, with no air, very limited supplies of food and water and litle to no entertainment.

But God bless the brave ones who have volunteered. They're doing a service to mankind if they actually end up going.

by **Czechanada** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:06 am

Chinamerica wrote:No thank you. I probably wouldn't like travelling 36 million miles away from Earth to a place man has never been to, with no air, very limited supplies of food and water and litle to no entertainment.

But God bless the brave ones who have volunteered. They're doing a service to mankind if they actually end up going.

You get to live out Mass Effect. That is all the entertainment you need.

by **The USOT** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:06 am

Lindenholt wrote:
The USOT wrote:Farming can be done in biodomes. I dont know where the renewable source of water will come from admittedly...

Water can be produced from the Hydrogen and the Oxygen out there actually it has everything to let us live there. We can terraform it VERY easily in 50 to 100 years.

Correct me if im wrong but doesnt it take a vast amount of energy to synthesise a breathable atmosphere?

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