People Sign Up to Die on Mars

[Quacker Jack]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/17/tech/mars ... index.html

I saw this crazy article on CNN yesterday, and was really perplexed by it. It reads that 100 people, 50 men and 50 women, are finalists to head to Mars in 2020, where they could survive up to 68 days with its radiation. Yet, even with knowledge of this, 200,000 people signed up to forget their Earth lives and go to Mars on a one-way ticket.

Would you do this? Or am I the only one who thinks this is one of the dumbest things I have read, as morally I feel that this is kind of wrong?

 

[Chris K]

I must agree with you, this is CRAZY! and morally I do feel it is wrong... I guess they KNOW they're going to die so they can sign up knowing at least. Perhaps people who have a terminal illness and are already going to die, then I don't see this being a bad idea. So I'm 50/50 with this idea.

 

[jacktheking]

I read a book about Journey to the mars and moon. And I heard of the One-way ticket suggestion. I can't believe they are actually planning to do it.

It would be alright if they have a two-way ticket. However, it is not possible as there is not enough resource (or the require technology) to make a rocket themselves and shoot back to earn. It would be better if the agency could came out a better idea.

It is too risky to sent human to a one-way trip to the mars. How long would the Human colony last?

 

[Quacker Jack]

How long would the Human colony last?

It isn't possible. Considering that an actual colony would need reproduction and a constant food/water source to survive, and we would require spacesuits that we cannot remove and we obviously do not know of a natural food/water source, I can't see that happening. Not to mention, there is two years inbetween groups taking off, and it is expected to take 7 months to get there and they can survive for 2-3 months when there.

If you keep watching videos, formers astronauts call this immoral as well, saying that it would of been easier to do a one-way ticket to the Moon, but that isn't how we did it.

 

[jacktheking]

From the book I read, it said that Mar do actually have water. It require heat to heat up the atmosphere (thus, having water). Once heated up, the atmosphere would be suitable for a normal human to live there. However.. I dont think 24 peoples would make a different to current Mar atmosphere.

Edited: Not sure.. I gonna dig up the book in from library again..

 

[Quacker Jack]

From the book I read, it said that Mar do actually have water. It require heat to heat up the atmosphere (thus, having water). Once heated up, the atmosphere would be suitable for a normal human to live there. However.. I dont think 24 peoples would make a different to current Mar atmosphere.

Edited: Not sure.. I gonna dig up the book in from library again..

I've heard it has sources of water that are frozen too, but like you said, we really don't have the methods to harvest it yet. ANd it still doesn't solve our food issue, haha.

 

[Alo]

Who knows? Love could be in the air '.'

 

[Kino]

Read this the other day. This sounds really cool. I am surprised that people are signing up, but at the same time I don't blame them. Not much to do on Earth anymore. Good for them.

 

[Twisted Fairytale]

My brother and a friend of mine signed up. Obviously, they didn't make into the Mars 100, but I think it's a good idea! I'm adventurous, and the idea is freaking cool to me, but I'm not convinced by the technology and procedures yet. 😛

I do want to go to the moon though. :great:

 

[ddoesmc]

My brother and a friend of mine signed up. Obviously, they didn't make into the Mars 100, but I think it's a good idea! I'm adventurous, and the idea is freaking cool to me, but I'm not convinced by the technology and procedures yet. 😛

I do want to go to the moon though. :great:

I agree 100% with you!

 

[Shole]

I don't see that the number is that crazy. Imagine there are a lot of people who basically don't have anything to look forward for, some maybe dreamed about going into space and trying the impossible.
200k isn't that much, if a million or more would apply then it would be a problem. But as Peter said, his friends applied to it, so it might be that out of 200k, 10-100k are joke apps .
The human mind is really a mysterious thing 🙂

 

[Luke]

This is essentially pathing the path for further human space exploration, if you're going to die eventually anyway (and 99.9999% of people will be forgotten), why don't you go down in history for doing something to further human space exploration? Even if you don't last long, you're doing something which hardly anyone else has done (unless you're the first there) and visiting a completely different planet. Sounds pretty cool to me.

 

[Chris K]

Just saw this on the news. It's bigger than I thought! Was showing rejected videos. It's almost disturbing...

 

[Cosmic]

I personally doubt that these people will ever actually go to Mars. It'll make a good reality TV series, though! 😛

 

[Luke]

I personally doubt that these people will ever actually go to Mars. It'll make a good reality TV series, though! 😛

I'm sure they will pretty damn well try, whether or not they make it is another thing, but we will eventually get humans on Mars.... it just might sadly take a few casualties to get there.

 

[Cosmic]

I personally doubt that these people will ever actually go to Mars. It'll make a good reality TV series, though! 😛

I'm sure they will pretty damn well try, whether or not they make it is another thing, but we will eventually get humans on Mars.... it just might sadly take a few casualties to get there.

I think it's a bit too early to try and put humans on Mars. I'm sure we can do it, but there's no real point, and it would be very, very expensive. I think the only way to colonize space would be to put a lot of hardware into orbit. We'd probably need to mine a good amount of resources from the moon, etc. in order to have enough material to build the kind of infrastructure we'd need to do anything other than wander around. The price per pound to get something out of Earth orbit is far from practical, unfortunately.

 

[MrDawn]

The whole Mars idea has always come off as a horribly bad idea.

I'm sure once all the colonist do get there, that is if it ever happens. They probably wouldn't last a day and want to come back to Earth.

 

[Thomasss]

Talk about going out with a bang, aye?

This is just plain weird. lol. I think they would get to mars but I just do not see any gains you get from going to mars to never be seen again.

And, well, talk about no internet. That's pretty much torture right there.

 

[Geoffrey]

I think people just signed up not really thinking they'd get picked to go, resulting in the large number of people who did sign up.

I would never go. I'd die during take off out of fear.

 

[Rebel]

Advancement sometimes takes sacrifice. I do believe there are really people crazy enough to leave this planet for good to go to Mars. I'm not sure they will survive but expansion of the human domain is not going to come without sacrifice and those doing what we all thought was undoable. I've been watching this project for years now and I am excited to see them start to finally narrow down their lists for training.