Mars People

[NDBoiler]

Just read this article:

Meet the Volunteers Willing to Go to Mars and Never Come Back

I get it if you were single, no children, and basically a loner where this might seem like a neat, adventurous way to make a major life change, to say the least. However, I cannot fathom the guy with a wife and kids who would be in essence walking out on his family in favor of his own self-fulfillment to do this. Why would your wife even want to stay with you knowing you were intentionally being put in a position by your husband to live on a countdown of time? I feel for those kids, what a terrible situation to be completely unneccessarily forced into. In the video he acts like someone is holding a gun to his head and making him choose "either go to Mars or stay on Earth with your family". It almost seems too unrealistic, probably a big hoax LOL.

What do you think?

 

[Grahambo]

I just read this too, literally like 2 mins ago. I'm like WTF at the people who have family.

Now, I am NOWHERE near semi-intelligent enough on this topic to even carry on a conversation about life on Mars but outside the discovery of 'life' is it enough to start a settlement? Does that even matter?

 

[NDBoiler]

I just read this too, literally like 2 mins ago. I'm like WTF at the people who have family.

Now, I am NOWHERE near semi-intelligent enough on this topic to even carry on a conversation about life on Mars but outside the discovery of 'life' is it enough to start a settlement? Does that even matter?

I don't know, but it would be cold as f*** and you'd have to wear a spacesuit whenever you went outdoors.

 

[RuntheBall]

Just read this article:

Meet the Volunteers Willing to Go to Mars and Never Come Back

I get it if you were single, no children, and basically a loner where this might seem like a neat, adventurous way to make a major life change, to say the least. However, I cannot fathom the guy with a wife and kids who would be in essence walking out on his family in favor of his own self-fulfillment to do this. Why would your wife even want to stay with you knowing you were intentionally being put in a position by your husband to live on a countdown of time? I feel for those kids, what a terrible situation to be completely unneccessarily forced into. In the video he acts like someone is holding a gun to his head and making him choose "either go to Mars or stay on Earth with your family". It almost seems too unrealistic, probably a big hoax LOL.

What do you think?

Considering what he wants to do, maybe it is his wife's idea?

 

[NDBoiler]

Considering what he wants to do, maybe it is his wife's idea?

Hmmmm, the female species can be clever....

 

[BobD]

Maybe they meant Mars Pennsylvania?

Or they're just circus freaks like the folks at this website I just found

Mars satan 's planet, Lucifer & cities of angels, end time prophecy, Martian Pyramids, Cydonia Face, angels & nephilim

 

[Old Man Mike]

There have been attempts at designing Martian habitats for many years now at NASA and other places. All of these scientifically-based designs indicate that while theoretically feasible, the actual lifestyle would be tedious beyond imagining.

Martian habitat would be easier in one sense than Lunar habitat, because you could park your life-domes right beside water supplies. Oxygen is is short supply in both places, so you have to electrolyze your own, using solar energy or small nukes you carried with you [mainly to energize fuel cells]. Neither place has any known carbon to speak of [minus the Martian CO2 frosts], so basically all your "food" will have to be bussed from Earth -- i.e. soil and seed and all else. Think of a larger Biosphere-two operation under lousy conditions. The "astronauts" of Biosphere Two nearly starved to death and worked their asses off all day every day to grow what they DID manage, and the air balance went foul on top of it.

Living in Antarctica with no chance to bail out and come home is pretty much a comparison. Can't think of a crummier life choice.

 

[Cackalacky]

I don't know, but it would be cold as f*** and you'd have to wear a spacesuit whenever you went outdoors.

It was actually warmer on Mars than in the midwest this past winter.

 

[Cackalacky]

Have to agree with OMM. This is one of my fantasies to see someone on Mars, though.

 

[Redbar]

I try to avoid thinking in absolutes, but I cannot imagine a more miserable existence for me.

After watching the clip and listening to several of the prospects, I think the one thing that connects them all is that there is something seriously missing in their life. I am no psychologists, nor do I mean to judge any of them, but I heard a lot of motivations that were a little disturbing to me: general asocial tendencies, morbid curiosity with death/suicide, not having anything to really live for here, not feeling they have a purpose, wanting to do something so they will be remembered forever, the guy that is married with young kids that would be torn if his son asked him not to go...I don't know, I understand that great endeavors, exploration, might require a bit of discontent or even vaulting ambition, but I don't see the group in the documentary being near "scientific" enough to pull this off in any meaningful way, it seems like more of a novelty/guinea pig thing than a dedicated scientific experiment thing.

 

[bobbyok1]

This sounds like such a great idea. You get to work really really hard to live on a barren planet!

Seriously though I am in agreement with Redbar on this one. There is some things that just don't seem right about the people in the video. They all seem either troubled or detached from reality (escapism to the max). I think if that group was selected to go when they lifted off it would not feel like a celebration but more of the feeling you get in your gut when someone you know of commits suicide.

 

[Buster Bluth]

Considering how nice being single (and on Earth) is, I'd probably only do this if I had a wife.

 

[Corry]

I'd do it YOLO.

 

[woolybug25]

On a serious note… why aren't we offering this as an option to people on death row or serving life sentences?

Send them up en' mass and keep a population of our species on another planet, safe from any future apocalyptical situation here on Earth. They can choose to be part of a great science experiment… or death. I mean… Australia has normal people now. Why not Mars?

 

[GATTACA!]

That dude crying saying his son coming up to him telling him not to go would change his mind.......wtf?? Clearly your son wouldn't want you to go if he was old enough to fully understand the ramifications of what you are talking about, and based on his crying he already understands that. What a selfish asshat.

 

[anarin]

I'd party on mars. Maybe have a one night stand with a martian.

Alcohol makes any time a good time.

 

[koonja]

On a serious note… why aren't we offering this as an option to people on death row or serving life sentences?

Send them up en' mass and keep a population of our species on another planet, safe from any future apocalyptical situation here on Earth. They can choose to be part of a great science experiment… or death. I mean… Australia has normal people now. Why not Mars?

I was going to say they should relocate the U of M there.

Or maybe we could have a shamrock game there?

 

[IrishinTN]

Have to agree with OMM. This is one of my fantasies to see someone on Mars, though.

I hear there are web sites where all your fantasies can come true.

 

[NDBoiler]

That dude crying saying his son coming up to him telling him not to go would change his mind.......wtf?? Clearly your son wouldn't want you to go if he was old enough to fully understand the ramifications of what you are talking about, and based on his crying he already understands that. What a selfish asshat.

I agree and I am thinking more and more that this has to be some sort of a hoax.

 

[BobD]

Sounds like a great place, but I think I'll just check out the pics they postt on facebook.

 

[Cackalacky]

I hear there are web sites where all your fantasies can come true.

Total Recall. Lol. I would love to be Quaid. The dude with the baby belly, not so much.

 

[Cackalacky]

On a serious note… why aren't we offering this as an option to people on death row or serving life sentences?

Send them up en' mass and keep a population of our species on another planet, safe from any future apocalyptical situation here on Earth. They can choose to be part of a great science experiment… or death. I mean… Australia has normal people now. Why not Mars?

It would turn out to be more like Georgia. Polly not a good idea.

 

[ACamp1900]

Can I send my family and stay here???

 

[woolybug25]

Once these dudes and dudettes get up there, I give it 10 days before there is a full fledge Lord of The Flies situation.

If ACamp went... He'd be Piggy.

 

[ACamp1900]

I'm a Simon, all day every day

 

[GATTACA!]

Once these dudes and dudettes get up there, I give it 10 days before there is a full fledge Lord of The Flies situation.

If ACamp went... He'd be Piggy.

Anyone a fan of the movie Sunshine?

 

[ulukinatme]

I was going to say they should relocate the U of M there.

Shit, but those smug assholes would just brag that they're the most prestigious university on Mars and say they're football team is undefeated there. Theres also the fact that no other life form would be able to survive once Hoke finds out where the food supply is located.

 

[ulukinatme]

As far as the video, yeah, fuck the guy with the wife and kids. Maybe he doesn't end up going through with it, but the fact he's even seriously considering it? Total dick, I feel sorry for his family. Hell, if this is the way he treats them, maybe they're better off with out him. He's worse than a dead beat dad that bolts. At least with a dead beat dad they can track him down and extort cash from him or lock the guy up. This dude is considering bolting on his family, never to return, leaving them high and dry while he lives out a "dream."

 

[GEORGIA DOMER]

Off the top of your head name five people you would love to see make the trip.
1. Oldest daughters mother.
2. Ex boss that refused to take my 2week notice.
3. Justin Beiber
4. $ Mayweather
5. Niki Manaj

Could never walk out on my family. For any reason. Period

 

[IrishInFl]

As of right now, it's a pretty pointless discussion about a maned exploration of Mars. They have to worry about space debris, solar radiation, food, the possibility of a hibernating state of sleep, artificial gravity, radiation from entering Mars' atmosphere, etc. It's fun to think about, but we're a long ways away, further then the 2024 date the company doing this wants.