Astronauts to land on Mars

shane9689

Mars one mission
http://www.mars-one.com/

opinions anyone?


personally I love the idea, its like watching "2001" all over again but it looks abit sceptical. also id never do it myself unless there was a large colony or a possibility of return (that's right, its a one way trip)

Captain Chaos

It's like Europeans sailing to central America in the 15th and 16th centuries, it was a one way trip for many.

A sickening though enters my head of the rocket exploding on the pad with the first astronauts bound for Mars.

Jack Skellington

I was reading about the doctor who's willing to leave for mars and live out the rest of his days there. I just couldn't do it, never seeing anyone you love or care about ever again, but it's his dream so he says so fair play to him for having the courage.

suicide_circus

All I ask for is a Total Recall style plantation on Mars before I die.

Sir Arthur Daley

Would sky plus work up there?

Standard Toaster

Baby, you make me wish I had three hands.

smellslikeshoes

I have very little faith in this crowd doing what they say they are going to do.
Their co-founder was on Reddit recently for an AMA and he was thoroughly ripped to shreds because of how little they actually have concrete.

Hagar the Nice.

Captain Chaos wrote: »

It's like Europeans sailing to central America in the 15th and 16th centuries, it was a one way trip for many.

A sickening though enters my head of the rocket exploding on the pad with the first astronauts bound for Mars.

Ar har Cap'n,tham thar Europeans be 4/5 centuries too late,The Vikings were there first.

Sir Arthur Daley

Are they taking up blocks, cement and a mixer?

kneemos

Another scam?

fryup

who'd the hell would want to go mars

its a hole of a place, there's nothing there only a dismal barren landscape you'd be bored to tears

Sir Arthur Daley

fryup wrote: »

who'd the hell would want to go mars

its a hole of a place, there's nothing there only a dismal barren landscape you'd be bored to tears

They said that about Las Vegas and look at it now.

shane9689

i agree with the exploration idea of it, but the only way it would be useful is if there was a longterm goal of a return trip so we could mine the **** out of mars, otherwise its only a small step

anncoates

fryup wrote: »

who'd the hell would want to go mars

its a hole of a place, there's nothing there only a dismal barren landscape you'd be bored to tears

Are you implying it's a godawful small affair?

EdwardCastle

WikiHow wrote: »

Would sky plus work up there?

AHAHAAAHA! Nice joke!

EdwardCastle

WikiHow wrote: »

Are they taking up blocks, cement and a mixer?

AHAHAHAHA...you're on form there buddy!

Fox_In_Socks

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

I have very little faith in this crowd doing what they say they are going to do.
Their co-founder was on Reddit recently for an AMA and he was thoroughly ripped to shreds because of how little they actually have concrete.

Sure why would they need concrete? They'd probably be building their stuff out of lightweight metals and plastics.

:pac:

thee glitz

I suppose ther'll be a hospital and all up there.
They'll all be begging to come back but will have
to wait til the money's made back on the project.

Sir Arthur Daley

If the sky plus would work i would go, i couldn't live without Fair City.

Captain Chaos

If one of them dies what do they do with the body. Push it out an airlock?

fergiesfolly

Captain Chaos wrote: »

If one of them dies what do they do with the body. Push it out an airlock?

In a world without meat, I'm thinking they'd fire up the BBQ.

Ghost Buster

fryup wrote: »

who'd the hell would want to go mars

its a hole of a place, there's nothing there only a dismal barren landscape you'd be bored to tears

The very reason why the Romans didnt bother with Ireland

WoollyRedHat

They should take some Mars rock and sell it on ebay, they'd make a fortune! Or they could keep it in their house , and be like, Mars rocks yo!
Or! they could wear it as a necklace... got to get me to Mars!

Roger_007

I suppose we will have to endure the usual spectacle of crying mammies at the launch site complaining about their childer having to emigrate because the gubberment won't make any jobs for them here.:eek:

fergiesfolly

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

They should take some Mars rock and sell it on ebay, they'd make a fortune! Or they could keep it in their house , and be like, Mars rocks yo!
Or! they could wear it as a necklace... got to get me to Mars!

Can you imagine the delivery charges on that!!!

LordSutch

suicide_circus wrote: »

All I ask for is a Total Recall style plantation on Mars before I die.

Terraforming is what you need for Mars.

biko

Apparently an Irishman has been shortlisted for it.

Ben D Bus

Any boardsies make the long list? 3 people from Ireland make the last 1000 (from 200,000 initial applications)

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0109/496759-mars-mission/

shane9689

lol came across this by accident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6JiCJ5x3Qw
out this year!

i mean last year...keep forgetting its 2014

Captain Chaos

fergiesfolly wrote: »

Can you imagine the delivery charges on that!!!

If they could get rocks from Mars back to Earth they'd almost have solved the problem of getting people back.

downonthefarm

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Baby, you make me wish I had three hands.

You got a lot of nerve showing your face around here quaid

WoollyRedHat

fergiesfolly wrote: »

Can you imagine the delivery charges on that!!!

They'd be astronomical!

jamo2oo9

I am very interested in this but I couldn't do this when you can't return home to your family and friends. Maybe if return flights to Mars and Earth are available, I'd go for it.

_Redzer_

Such a waste of time. It's like the moon, a barren rock with nothing on it. They're just going to mars to say "well, we went to Mars, we're great, look what we can do."

Yeah, grand.

But it'd be so much better to divert all the research and funding to Europa, were there's a strong possibility of finding life.

Mars is only good for mining it of its resources so we can stop tearing our own planet apart.

UCDVet

Why not the moon?

Captain Chaos

It's hard enough getting people to Mars never mind Europa which will be next to impossible for the next 100 years.

Captain Chaos

UCDVet wrote: »

Why not the moon?

Been there and done that.

WoollyRedHat

UCDVet wrote: »

Why not the moon?

In this day and age, it would be pure lunacy.

UCDVet

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Been there and done that.

As far as I know, we've never established a colony on the Moon. The longest trip (again, as far as I know) was Apollo 17....and they spent three days on the surface. They landed on Dec 11th and left on the 14th. That's like a long weekend, not a settlement.

Rhys Essien

Id say this might never get off the ground because they have no money.As of now its just a big dream.They will need to raise €4 billion.They hope to do that by selling TV rights and have it like reality TV for when and if the people land on the planet.

You can also buy merchandise from their site here
http://www.mars-one.com/merchandise

Whether this 'Mars-one' mission will happen,its hard to know but the Russians,Chinese and the Americans have all plans to send people to Mars in the next 20/30 years.

_Redzer_

Captain Chaos wrote: »

It's hard enough getting people to Mars never mind Europa which will be next to impossible for the next 100 years.

Man doesn't need to go though. Let machines do it. There's 100s of km of ice to bore through to get to the liquid sea, so humans couldn't go anything there anyway.

_Redzer_

UCDVet wrote: »

As far as I know, we've never established a colony on the Moon. The longest trip (again, as far as I know) was Apollo 17....and they spent three days on the surface. They landed on Dec 11th and left on the 14th. That's like a long weekend, not a settlement.

The moon is a complete waste of time. There's no point spending billions doing all that. The space race was initially nothing but a dick measuring contest

Rhys Essien

_Redzer_ wrote: »

Man doesn't need to go though. Let machines do it. There's 100s of km of ice to bore through to get to the liquid sea, so humans couldn't go anything there anyway.

Why the need for drilling?.Can the ice not just be melted for water.

wotzgoingon

About time someone is coming to visit me. I've been lonely up here for years.

_Redzer_

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Why the need for drilling?.Can the ice not just be melted for water.

To drill down to the sea where the supposed life forms are. The surface is far too hostile to be habitable, and if humans wouldn't be capable of getting down to the sea (it'd be too dangerous anyway) it would be redundant to even have them on the planet. It could be a completely autonomous process carried out by machines.

Rhys Essien

_Redzer_ wrote: »

To drill down to the sea where the supposed life forms are. The surface is far too hostile to be habitable, and if humans wouldn't be capable of getting down to the sea (it'd be too dangerous anyway) it would be redundant to even have them on the planet. It could be a completely autonomous process carried out by machines.

The reality is that humanity needs to colonise other worlds.No questions about it.By all of us staying on little old Planet Earth,we are keeping all the eggs in the one basket.Humanity could be wiped out in an instant.The Dinosaurs prove that and there are a lot of ways it could happen,Comets,Asteroids,Super Volcano,Hugh Solar flares,Nuclear war,Virus etc.

UCDVet

_Redzer_ wrote: »

The moon is a complete waste of time. There's no point spending billions doing all that. The space race was initially nothing but a dick measuring contest

Fair enough - but how is Mars different?

_Redzer_

UCDVet wrote: »

Fair enough - but how is Mars different?

It's barren and lifeless. It's only good for mining.

shane9689

Rhys Essien wrote: »

The reality is that humanity needs to colonise other worlds.No questions about it.By all of us staying on little old Planet Earth,we are keeping all the eggs in the one basket.Humanity could be wiped out in an instant.The Dinosaurs prove that and there are a lot of ways it could happen,Comets,Asteroids,Super Volcano,Hugh Solar flares,Nuclear war,Virus etc.

humanity needs it, but the individual doesn't, and incase you haven't noticed, the general population dont really give a **** about humanity as a whole (i do agree with you though)

UCDVet

_Redzer_ wrote: »

It's barren and lifeless. It's only good for mining.

Isn't that true of the Moon too?
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/strong-case-companies-mine-moon-says-scientist-1431927

_Redzer_

Rhys Essien wrote: »

The reality is that humanity needs to colonise other worlds.No questions about it.By all of us staying on little old Planet Earth,we are keeping all the eggs in the one basket.Humanity could be wiped out in an instant.The Dinosaurs prove that and there are a lot of ways it could happen,Comets,Asteroids,Super Volcano,Hugh Solar flares,Nuclear war,Virus etc.

I agree, but Europa and Mars aren't good places to start. Mars is too small to hold an atmosphere so most terraforming would be wasted and Europa is too hostile for our type of species.

A suitable planet has to lie in the habital zone and have water reserves, as well as the basic building blocks for life.