One way trip to Mars anybody ?

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:37 am

I can't believe this, there are people queuing up for a one way journey to Mars.

As far as I am concerned they can have my place, I can always join them later, when they sort out the return trip.

Meet the five Brits on the Mars list

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:09 am

I heard about this on a local radio talk show yesterday. That's a long time to be in a confined space with folks you may not care for after a few months together...lol

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:38 am

I have a few names I'd like to put on that list.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:06 am

YZGI;1474376 wrote: I have a few names I'd like to put on that list.

In-laws?

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 12:23 pm

Bruv;1474386 wrote: In-laws?

Nah, inlaws are cool for the most part. Now if we're talking blood relatives?????

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:38 pm

YZGI;1474391 wrote: Nah, inlaws are cool for the most part. Now if we're talking blood relatives?????

Families...........who would have them ?

Post by **LarsMac** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:59 pm

I'd go in a heartbeat, but, I probably wouldn't qualify.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:07 am

YZGI;1474376 wrote: I have a few names I'd like to put on that list.

Spot ??

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 8:45 am

Betty Boop;1474438 wrote: Spot ??

:yh_rotfl LOL

Post by **spot** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:54 pm

I refer the thread participants to an earlier thread: http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/curre ... post882965

I've been on the UK Colony Volunteer List for the last fifteen years - it's the British Interplanetary Society's project. Who knows, I might be there within the next ten years. Once we're there we're meant to stay.

06-06-2008 04:28 PM

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 4:00 pm

spot;1474484 wrote: I refer the thread participants to an earlier thread: http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/curre ... post882965

I've been on the UK Colony Volunteer List for the last fifteen years - it's the British Interplanetary Society's project. Who knows, I might be there within the next ten years. Once we're there we're meant to stay.

06-06-2008 04:28 PM

OK.......Why ?

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:17 am

What's so incredulous about it? After all, you'll probably find there's far more nutters on the list of those waiting to commit suicide on command come the next day of the supposed Rapture.

Saint_ · Post by **Saint_** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:04 am

I'd love to go...but two things would have to be true first:

1. The technology would have to exist for people to live on Mars without resupply. It doesn't. Machines break, people get sick. Things would have to be manufactured, raw materials found, mined, smelted, and machined. Medicines distilled, water extracted, oxygen cracked, plants grown. One bad break, one accident, one plague and it's goodbye. No nation on Earth currently has the ability to resupply on a yearly basis.

2. I'd have to be twenty years younger.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:34 am

Excuses, excuses, and they need some old timers too you know.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:45 am

Saint, you left out cell phone reception.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:00 am

YZGI;1474610 wrote: Saint, you left out cell phone reception.
To say nothing of a decent Broadband connection.

Post by **spot** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:25 am

Bruv;1474487 wrote: OK.......Why ?

I can think of nothing more important than getting Earth's eggs out of the existing single basket. Staying on just the one planet is a death-trap.

I have come to the conclusion that each galaxy has a maximum of just one colonisation event. Within a million years of intelligent life starting to spread between star systems, the whole of one galaxy will be fully populated by that life. I can see no possible way, using known physics, of any life or meaningful information bridging the gap between galaxies, but I'm quite sure a galaxy can be populated.

Once it's been done, there's no way of disguising the presence of that intelligent life. That's why I'm quite sure it's never been done yet in this galaxy. We have the opportunity to do it now, and it's an opportunity that won't hang around indefinitely waiting for us to take it.

How could I not take part in establishing the first colony if I was offered a place - it's the most historic event this species will ever know.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:44 am

Yes but it doesn't have to be you in the first wave.

Post by **spot** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:47 am

Bruv;1474626 wrote: Yes but it doesn't have to be you in the first wave.

I am, I fear, past my first flush. Picking and choosing would be ill-judged.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:56 am

spot;1474627 wrote: I am, I fear, past my first flush. Picking and choosing would be ill-judged.

And so jumping on the first flight is not.....ill-judged ?

Post by **spot** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:31 pm

Bruv;1474630 wrote: And so jumping on the first flight is not.....ill-judged ?

I am insignificant. If my body can help lubricate the road to the stars then fling me on it and grind me down.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:42 pm

spot;1474638 wrote: I am insignificant. If my body can help lubricate the road to the stars then fling me on it and grind me down.

I may pop on to one of the later excursions when the likes of you have oiled the route sufficiently.

I may be insignificant in eternity terms.....but I am all I have.

Post by **spot** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:46 am

Nobody appears yet to have decided on a name for this first Martian Colony.

I propose Roanoke.

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:18 am

The idea of being truly the first humans to set foot where no other human has ever been is fascinating.

I am sure that they will only select people who have a very good chance of at least surviving the trip. That would preclude anyone who requires some sort of Pharmacology product to stay fully functional.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:58 am

spot;1474673 wrote: Nobody appears yet to have decided on a name for this first Martian Colony.

I propose Roanoke.
Marsbar

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:59 am

Bruv;1474649 wrote: I may pop on to one of the later excursions when the likes of you have oiled the route sufficiently.

I may be insignificant in eternity terms.....but I am all I have.

I wouldn't last through the launch..lol

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:22 am

LarsMac;1474690 wrote: The idea of being truly the first humans to set foot where no other human has ever been is fascinating.

Why ?

How about on a fresh beach after the tide has gone out...............that'll do for me.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:00 am

Just imagine the disappointment when you get there & discover that planet crust isn't made of chocolate with a caramel core.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:00 pm

flopstock;1474698 wrote: Marsbar

Rock four ages.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:33 am

spot;1474673 wrote: Nobody appears yet to have decided on a name for this first Martian Colony.

I propose Roanoke.

An inauspicious start surely? Roanoke failed!

Post by **spot** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:37 am

Bryn Mawr;1474827 wrote: An inauspicious start surely? Roanoke failed!

I was thinking at least this time we could find out why, that's all.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:50 am

spot;1474828 wrote: I was thinking at least this time we could find out why, that's all.

I always thought the colonists died out after supplies stopped coming from England?

Post by **LarsMac** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:58 pm

Bryn Mawr;1474829 wrote: I always thought the colonists died out after supplies stopped coming from England?

Still trying to figure it out.

Have We Found the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island?