Mars One

[newarenanow]

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Would any of you do this? I wish some of you would apply.

[Gaucho]

Nope.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I foudn this pretty interesting (from the MIT study link)

For example, if all food is obtained from locally grown crops, as Mars One envisions, the vegetation would produce unsafe levels of oxygen, which would set off a series of events that would eventually cause human inhabitants to suffocate. To avoid this scenario, a system to remove excess oxygen would have to be implemented — a technology that has not yet been developed for use in space.

I would never imagine that TOO MUCH oxygen would've been a problem.

[newarenanow]

What if it's like the time Bart brought the frog to Australia and upset the entire ecosystem and Mars blows up and then the galaxy goes nuts.

[DelPen]

If I had no family or close friends and spent most of my life researching how to go to Mars then absolutely. Since I meet none of those prerequisites then no.

[PensFanInDC]

Spoiler:

[Gaucho]

I foudn this pretty interesting (from the MIT study link)

For example, if all food is obtained from locally grown crops, as Mars One envisions, the vegetation would produce unsafe levels of oxygen, which would set off a series of events that would eventually cause human inhabitants to suffocate. To avoid this scenario, a system to remove excess oxygen would have to be implemented — a technology that has not yet been developed for use in space.

I would never imagine that TOO MUCH oxygen would've been a problem.

10% more oxygen on earth would mean insects big as cows.

[ulf]

What if it's like the time Bart brought the frog to Australia and upset the entire ecosystem and Mars blows up and then the galaxy goes nuts.

I've never seen that but it's funny because they brought cane toads in to control some population in the rain forests (can't remember what animal/insect) but now there's millions of cane toads in their rain forests because nothing eats them.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

What if it's like the time Bart brought the frog to Australia and upset the entire ecosystem and Mars blows up and then the galaxy goes nuts.

I read this in Ralph Wiggum's voice and it made me laugh.

[newarenanow]

What if it's like the time Bart brought the frog to Australia and upset the entire ecosystem and Mars blows up and then the galaxy goes nuts.

I've never seen that but it's funny because they brought cane toads in to control some population in the rain forests (can't remember what animal/insect) but now there's millions of cane toads in their rain forests because nothing eats them.

This reminds me of the Simpsons where Bart nurses the winged lizard, who eats all the pigeons, which makes springfield happy, but then the lizards reproduce and then the town is overrun with lizards, which then they introduce needle snakes that eat all of the lizards, but then get overrun with needle snakes, which then they bring in gorillas who will eat all of the snakes, but then get overrun by gorillas, which then Skinner says, "by that time winter will be here and the gorillas will just freeze to death" which ends the problem.

[Idoit40fans]

I dont even want to go on a flight that goes into the upper atmosphere. This planet beat all odds and supports life on its own, im good here.

[Letang Is The Truth]

invasive species suck. the economic impact of kudzo and the longhorned beetle alone is remarkable. zebra mussels. cottonfly. they are all terrible

[SolidSnake]

Sorry NAN I beat you Nah! Nah!
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[GSdrums87]

I'd 100% do this. We're kind of in a boring time in terms of discovery of new places. Too late to explore the world, too early to truly explore and step foot in space. I'd love to be one of the first people living on a new planet. That's huge.

[ulf]

invasive species suck. the economic impact of kudzo and the longhorned beetle alone is remarkable. zebra mussels. cottonfly. they are all terrible

I'd take them all in as pets if it meant no more stink bugs in casa de ulf

[Bioshock]

I foudn this pretty interesting (from the MIT study link)

For example, if all food is obtained from locally grown crops, as Mars One envisions, the vegetation would produce unsafe levels of oxygen, which would set off a series of events that would eventually cause human inhabitants to suffocate. To avoid this scenario, a system to remove excess oxygen would have to be implemented — a technology that has not yet been developed for use in space.

I would never imagine that TOO MUCH oxygen would've been a problem.

10% more oxygen on earth would mean insects big as cows.

Yeah, go back 300 Million years and you have just that. People fail to realize the earth's atmosphere hasn't always been like this.

[Shyster]

SpaceX's Elon Musk: "I think it would be cool to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Hopefully not at the point of impact."

[shafnutz05]

I read an article somewhere talking about the candidates for this mission. Let's say it wasn't flattering. I can see this ending in disaster if it ever got off the ground

[Hockeynut!]

I read an article somewhere talking about the candidates for this mission. Let's say it wasn't flattering. I can see this ending in disaster if it ever got off the ground

I'm surprised there aren't a plethora of wildly intelligent, experienced and rational people applying for a suicide mission.

[Bioshock]

I read an article somewhere talking about the candidates for this mission. Let's say it wasn't flattering. I can see this ending in disaster if it ever got off the ground

I'm surprised there aren't a plethora of wildly intelligent, experienced and rational people applying for a suicide mission.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I would do it only if I was guaranteed my name would be remembered like Armstrong or Aldrin.


Obviously that means I would have to actually step on Mars, have correspondance with Earth and be one of a small group (the more that go the less likely my name will be remembered). Since all three conditions are unlikely, I wouldn't do it.

But I'd they were guaranteed and my name was remembered and spoken in the same breath as Armstrong and Aldrin I would do it. I find there to be a poetic beauty in the concept of immortality through remmeberance.

And like Napoleon said: "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily"

[GSdrums87]

I would do it only if I was guaranteed my name would be remembered like Armstrong or Aldrin.


Obviously that means I would have to actually step on Mars, have correspondance with Earth and be one of a small group (the more that go the less likely my name will be remembered). Since all three conditions are unlikely, I wouldn't do it.

But I'd they were guaranteed and my name was remembered and spoken in the same breath as Armstrong and Aldrin I would do it. I find there to be a poetic beauty in the concept of immortality through remmeberance.

And like Napoleon said: "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily"

"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?”