Would you like to live on Mars?

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More than 100,000 want to go to Mars and not return, project says - CNN.com

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(CNN) -- More than 100,000 people are eager to make themselves at home on another planet. They've applied for a one-way trip to Mars, hoping to be chosen to spend the rest of their lives on uncharted territory, according to an organization planning the manned missions.

The Mars One project wants to colonize the red planet, beginning in 2022. There are financial and practical questions about this venture that haven't been clarified. Will there be enough money? Will people really be able to survive on Mars? But these haven't stopped some 30,000 Americans from signing up.

You can see some of the candidates on the project's website, but they're not the only ones who have applied, said Bas Lansdorp, Mars One CEO and co-founder.
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I can see it now ... "Hey!!!!! You told me you all had a McDonalds here!!!"
 
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2022? They can try to have a colony built there. But I highly doubt it will be done in less than 9 years.
 
501 days in space with your spouse: Could you handle it? - CNN.com

(CNN) -- One man. One woman. Five hundred and one days in an RV-size space capsule. Will they still be speaking when they return?

The Inspiration Mars Foundation is seeking to send two people -- potentially a middle-aged married couple -- to space in a capsule that would pass within 100 miles of Mars.

Although no formal application process has begun, the Mars mission masterminds are already receiving résumés and technology ideas from interested people, said Jane Poynter, president of Paragon Space Development Corp., which is developing technologies for the mission that's hoping to launch in 2018.
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What if they discover halfway through the trip that they are no longer compatible? :shock:
 
I wonder if they will accept any Deaf Applications? I wonder if a Deaf school would be built on Mars, and if there will ever be MSL?
 
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Steinhauer said:
Babyblue said:
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2022? They can try to have a colony built there. But I highly doubt it will be done in less than 9 years.
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I am just thinking ... my son will live to see this .... :aw:
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Perhaps or your Grandson.... They haven't found out how to protect them from space radiation yet. Reading the article, NASA only allow astronauts to be out and exposed for a limited of time. They are still trying to figure out how to prevent such exposures.
 
God no! Mars is like a large frigid moon with a thin toxic atmosphere constantly nuked by the sun.If someone can pull off a life on our moon, then Mars is their next challenge.
 
Jess said:
God no! Mars is like a large frigid moon with a thin toxic atmosphere constantly nuked by the sun.If someone can pull off a life on our moon, then Mars is their next challenge.
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but the moon got NONE, it will have to be a greenhouse dome structure...the tricky bit is getting all the stuff over there...so i suppose...thats what you meant, but Mars have more to offer to sustain life, if it can be modified...moon no, it has to be entirely contained within a colony structure.
 
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Would you like to live on Mars?
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No, we have already screwed up one planet and now they're talking about screwing up another one. I hope we never make it to Mars or any other planets. Leave it to man to treat a planet as it deposable .
 
Laughed at this portion of the article:

Anyone 18 or older may apply, but the fee depends on a user's nationality. For Americans, it's $38; if you're in Mexico, however, it's a mere $15.
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Even in Mars they still need someone to do dishes and mow the lawns!
 
I think 2022 is way too soon because I believe the technology for living in space colony on Mars will not be ready at this time.

In addition, I think the number of 100,000 people is unrealistic.
 
Royale said:
I think 2022 is way too soon because I believe the technology for living in space colony on Mars will not be ready at this time.

In addition, I think the number of 100,000 people is unrealistic.
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agreed
 
Here is an interesting article :hmm:

Nasa's Curiosity mission probing Mars has just completed one year - and found favourable conditions for life having existed on the Red Planet. Aerospace engineer Anita Sengupta is part of Nasa's Curiosity team, playing a key role in the historic touchdown on Mars of the nearly one-ton Curiosity rover. Sengupta, who is of Indian origin and currently visiting to interact with Indian scientists, students and receive an award in Bengal, spoke with Laxman Srinivas about the significance of Curiosity, her passion for science fiction - and exploring life in outer space:
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Conditions existed for life on Mars â?? we may not be the only beings: Anita Sengupta - Times Of India
 
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