NASA Mars mission a one-way trip...
 

IT'S the biggest dead-end job ever.
NASA is looking for volunteers to fly to Mars - the snag is that you won't come back.

It is actively investigating the possibility of humans colonising worlds such as the Red Planet.

The settlers would be sent supplies from Earth but would go on the understanding that it would be too costly to bring them home.

NASA revealed that it had already received more than $1 million to commence work on the project at its Ames Research Centre in California.

Centre director Pete Worden, who claimed humans could be living on Mars by 2030 despite the inhospitable conditions, said: "The human space program is now aimed at settling other worlds.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/wor...-1225945124330

Any volunteers ??

Who's coming with me??

why mars ? why not first test stuff out on the moon, learn some lessons there and move on to the next planet ?

Travelling to other planets is really tough without wormholes.

Besides who wants to go on a freaking suicide mission ?

I am sure they will find plenty of volunteers

Who says we aren't. We won't send anyone to Mars until 2030 at the earliest.

Because if they really try to go to the moon they are going to expose the bullshit moon landings of the 60's. I can't believe that the fact that man never landed on the moon is still being debated, it's clear as day that it never happened.

They have scaled back the plans to go to the Moon again. The USA seems to have lost it's yearning to explore the solar system with anything other than robotic craft.

I doubt a manned Mars mission is likely any time within the next 30 years. This article is just a Sunday beat up from the worst media organization Australia has.

I would go!
To go down in History as the person who set foot on another planet. [pose and look to the stars]

cant wait to see that play out and what more they discover about mars :)

Will I have access to THE INTERNET? If not, fuck that! :winkwink:

Can see that turning into a Lord of the Flies type scenario.

The big question is why?

The moon landings brought little real profit or advancement. Yes some of the technology used was helpful but it would of been developed anyway.

Putting up satellites orbiting the Earth is profitable and advances civilisation. And they put them up all the time. In fact it's getting crowded up there.

Don't see a Mars trip bringing the same benefits and unless they are there it will be a fad that passes. The robots up there aren't exactly sending back information there's some precious mineral on Mars we need so badly.

Spend the money on climate change and get some good from it.

Wormholes or the ability to fold space...

Maybe this is the point. Maybe they know that we have gone to far and the earth is doomed, so we need to seed another planet for the race to survive? Mar's just being the first test shot.

why to ask why? if we will not try our limits we will still be on trees ... now or soon, we will get somewhere :)

If that article is actually true, that's kick ass. Hopefully I'm still alive when Expedia begins offering vacation deals to Mars. :)

Because it's a well known (yet little talked about) fact that if we don't figure out how to live in space or on other planets within the next ~200 years, us humans are going to be extinct. Especially considering our population growth, and depleting resources, us humans simply can not sustain our species on Earth.

btw im going, i want to see kids of your kids living on mars and studying in teencats college and living in teencats southern crater suburb :)

Yeah, there ain't no WallMart next block to buy what you forgot or what broke :Oh crap
What happen if the few girls up there die (or the men)? They have to start from scratch all over again:1orglaugh

But seriously, i'm sure people will jump into this venture as weird as it seems. It will be one way trips for years and years until we have something "affordable" to bring people back and forth.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/200...11_468x310.jpg

That is the point :thumbsup

It's funny how some people think the earth is an unlimited space with unlimited resources. Here's how simple it is. If you use up more than you can replenish, you will eventually run out.

We have three choices. Conserve, replenish or expand our horizon :)

I would go. No question about it.

If they would make sure my closest family are taken care of financially, I'd go tomorrow.

:eek7:eek7

Pack me up with a couple of hot babes and I'll be more than happy to go colonize it :pimp

that would be a trip of a life :D

I'd only go if there is a need for some alien ass kickin'.

Will there be Internet? :)

agreed 100%.

ill do it! ill need 6 pounds of baby skunk and 6 tons of cheetos

you realize thats like giving a kid a nickel and telling him to go shop for an automobile.

All that is just appropriation money to keep some jobs and keep NASA occupied with something since the shuttle program is scrapped. It's nothing more than giving a kid a spongebob DVD to entertain him while you clean the house.

Most likely not. That would be one bad ass modem if there was.


If there was no coming back people are way less willing to go. And if you think of the type of people that are willing to go one way already, have no friends and probably have some kind of mental defect.


The volunteers would probably be mostly web masters. But i don't think they make XXXXXXL space suits. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

1 million? Are you serious? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh
They'll need a lot more than that.

again?:1orglaugh

Wrong. There is an isotope thought to be in the moon that is worth more than gold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
They only wish they could actually go there and get it...

I do :).........

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh No comment.

There are two invisible rings of radiation trapped by the Earth?s magnetic field in the upper atmosphere situated about 3,000 and 15,000 kilometers above the surface. These belts of radiation are named Van Allen radiation belts after the physicist James Van Allen who had discovered them in 1958. Van Allen belts contain high-energy, charged subatomic (electrons and protons) particles emitted by solar flares and carried by solar wind. If the Earth?s magnetic field had not trapped these subatomic particles and held them in the form of thick belts or rigs away from the Earth their radiation measuring 3,00,000 electron volt would have charred all the living beings to death. The astronauts going to the Moon have to go through these belts and the journey through these belts would have been fatal for them. Conclusion: Manned Moon missions have not taken place. End of debate:thumbsup