Would you volunteer to die on Mars?

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: CopperHeart
Date: February 17, 2015 at 06:40 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

Mars One: 'We're all going to die, but it's important what you do before you die'
Mars One, a group that plans to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars, has announced its final 100 candidates. They have been selected from
200,000 applicants
and will go on to further testing later this year, which they expect to include team-building exercises and later, isolation.
Eventually, 24 will be selected to make up six crews of four, which
Mars One
says they hope to launch to the Red Planet every two years from 2024, with the aim of starting a colony there.
The Dutch non-profit hopes to use existing technology to carry out the mission. However, the planet has always been a difficult target for exploration, with only around half of all unmanned missions succeeding. The journey itself is expected to take around seven months, and a
recent MIT study
found that, should the first explorers succeed in landing, using current technology they would likely survive just 68 days.
So what kind of person chooses to go to Mars on a one-way mission?
Full article:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/17/tech/mars-one-final-100/index.html

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: CopperHeart
Date: February 17, 2015 at 06:45 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

I see the long-term value here, but personally, while I have a family to take care of, I couldn't imagine volunteering for this.
I, mean, it's not like Earth is running out of people. 200,000 people applied already.
This could be a good thing for the childless elderly, or the terminally ill.
I wonder how far we are from self-sustaining man-made biosystems.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: redd1
Date: February 17, 2015 at 07:15 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

I definitely think they should see if basic terraforming and other set ups are possible before sending someone that far. Hell even a colony on the moon to test proof of concept stuff before this.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: EnderWiggin
Date: February 17, 2015 at 07:29 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

If I didn't have a family, and if they expected to be able to settle there, then yeah. 68 days? No thank you. Leave family behind? No thank you.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: osubuckeye4
Date: February 17, 2015 at 08:26 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

Everyone is going to die at some point in time. Mars would be an interesting place to have it happen.
The only thing that would cause me to have said no back in my single days, is the 68 day projection.
If you gave me a 50/50 shot to live to 55 on Mars, and even a 1% chance to start a civilization on Mars... I'd probably have done it. If it's a 99% chance i won't make it to the 3 month mark? Hell no.
I really don't understand the point of this if there is virtually no chance to actually colonize the planet... is it just a really long suicide mission?

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: redstar
Date: February 17, 2015 at 08:27 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

Sure, why not.
I knew my days were numbered the minute I entered Uranus.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: mmablaster
Date: February 17, 2015 at 11:39 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

Only if I was guaranteed a chateau on Olympus Mons.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Spidy
Date: February 17, 2015 at 11:50 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

68 days. Time flies when you're havin fun. I guess it's all about the journey? About 280 days total. Hmmm, think I will just wait till the ancient aliens make their return visit and hitch a ride to Orion, if they offer

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Sapper
Date: February 17, 2015 at 11:56 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

If I was single, 100% I would have signed up. Family and kids, never going to happen.
Where I think this fails is it doesn't take into account how the world was colonized. It really only succeeded once more and more people went to the same locations. It's almost a sure thing that one of these missions will crash, and one will not even make it to Mars. A true colonization effort needs to be a much larger effort. I applaud those that want to go, and are selected... But I don't see this as a true effort to colonize Mars. I hope they prove me wrong.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: thedarkwingduck2k11
Date: February 18, 2015 at 01:24 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

sounds like a premise for a cheesy sci-fi. Just shortly after sending the 24 human colonists to Mars, the human population on Earth was decimated by an unknown and aggressive virus strain that turn them into "walkers" and in an ironic turn of fate, these "expendable" space colonists are humanity's last hope for survival and rebuilding. With no instructions from the mother planet, they must learn to navigate and survive on their own. Every weekly episode will show the trials and tribulations of the colonists as they settle down and get acclimated to the harsh and unforgiving Martian environment. They will also go at each other throats from personality clashes and a struggle for power slowly emerges.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: CopperHeart
Date: February 18, 2015 at 01:31 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

thedarkwingduck2k11 said:
sounds like a premise for a cheesy sci-fi. Just shortly after sending the 24 human colonists to Mars, the human population on Earth was decimated by an unknown and aggressive virus strain that turn them into "walkers" and in an ironic turn of fate, these "expendable" space colonists are humanity's last hope for survival and rebuilding. With no instructions from the mother planet, they must learn to navigate and survive on their own. Every weekly episode will show the trials and tribulations of the colonists as they settle down and get acclimated to the harsh and unforgiving Martian environment. They will also go at each other throats from personality clashes and a struggle for power slowly emerges.
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After which, they all promptly die from lack of oxygen.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: thedarkwingduck2k11
Date: February 18, 2015 at 03:32 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

CopperHeart said:
After which, they all promptly die from lack of oxygen.
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nah they'll probably figure out to acquire a self sustaining water and oxygen source by the end of season 1.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: princecharlestampon
Date: February 18, 2015 at 03:43 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

No MMA, no Mars.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Sapper
Date: February 18, 2015 at 08:16 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

princecharlestampon said:
No MMA, no Mars.
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You could stream it. There would be about a 5 min delay....

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: kungfu_ghetto
Date: February 18, 2015 at 09:14 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

princecharlestampon said:
No MMA, no Mars.
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+100

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Sedulous
Date: February 18, 2015 at 09:35 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

I think the 68 day projection will have changed drastically by the actual launch. The technology that will be available by 2024 or even 2020 will improve that significantly. I mean who knows, by then they could be regularly bio-engineering skin and lungs capable of surviving in the martian air. I probably wouldn't sign up at all but if I did and the same bleak predictions hold and are plausible by launch year, then I'd just bail.
Still, it's cool to think that in about 10 years, we could have people on Mars.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: cmvideo75
Date: February 18, 2015 at 09:49 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

thedarkwingduck2k11 said:
sounds like a premise for a cheesy sci-fi. Just shortly after sending the 24 human colonists to Mars, the human population on Earth was decimated by an unknown and aggressive virus strain that turn them into "walkers" and in an ironic turn of fate, these "expendable" space colonists are humanity's last hope for survival and rebuilding. With no instructions from the mother planet, they must learn to navigate and survive on their own. Every weekly episode will show the trials and tribulations of the colonists as they settle down and get acclimated to the harsh and unforgiving Martian environment. They will also go at each other throats from personality clashes and a struggle for power slowly emerges.
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How many boobs will the martian chicks have in this show?

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: CopperHeart
Date: February 18, 2015 at 09:59 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

cmvideo75 said:
How many boobs will the martian chicks have in this show?
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[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: cmvideo75
Date: February 18, 2015 at 10:03 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

CopperHeart said:
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Ha... Arnold's face is great! Makes the GIF

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Spidy
Date: February 18, 2015 at 10:06 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/would-you-volunteer-to-die-on-mars.65519/

cmvideo75 said:
Ha... Arnold's face is great! Makes the GIF
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If this colonization is a success, they will need aKindergarten Cop fer sure. Oh and it's a well known "fact " Martian women have 6 t---.