One Way Ticket To Mars
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- Al_dizzle
The man behind the private space project dubbed Mars One is looking for people to travel to Mars, but he's not offering a return ticket.
"The technology to get humans to Mars and keep them alive there exists," Bas Lansdorp told Day 6 host Brent Bambury in an interview that aired this week on CBC Radio.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sto…
"The technology to bring humans from Mars back to Earth simply does not exist yet."...kind of intriguing.
- feel0
- mg330
Early in my Chicago music life around 2001 when I was playing guitar and singing for the first time , I wrote a song about the first manned mission to Mars, from the perspective of one of the astronauts, who knew they'd never make it back home to Earth. But he was content with that fate because of good memories and the last day he spent with the woman he loved. Kind of a rip your heart out song. I never recorded it but played it regularly. I miss my old life.
- a true visionaryAl_dizzle
- hahaha, a great title would be Space Odditymonospaced
- mg33 i want to here it!sea_sea
- sea_sea's feeling all gooey ;)goldieboy
- GeorgesII0
so they had the tech to go to the moon with a calculator chip,
they can lower a sky crane onto the surface and drop a load on the red planet's face,
We now have self thinking drones,
but we can't find a group of scientist good enough to plan a successful return plan,fuck this shit, they gonna get these suicidal people killed,
you want a good plane,
steal the fuckn ISS and ride it to Mars, once there, just pick the weakest human on board and sky crane him on the surface,done
- plan not "plane"GeorgesII
- it's not about how how innovative/smart we are, it's about the limits of current technologiesmonospaced
- hauling up enough fuel to make a return launch simply isn't feasible right nowmonospaced
- the sr71 is a good planealbums
- a true visionary
Al_dizzle - I love to make people rabble,
but with the trillion of dollars that were siphoned in black program, you believe we're still stuck with solid fuelGeorgesII - solid fuel, just look at the tech used in the b2GeorgesII
- a good plane can make it back thoughmoldero
- vivid0
it'll be the worst big brother ever!
- omg0
the only way to survive is to activate the reactor.
- nb0
Hype for a TV show. You don't ever need to actually send anyone to Mars to sell the show for 10 years and make a bunch of money.
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- CygnusZero40
Why wouldnt what they did with Apollo work? Have a lander that launches them into space.
- not enough fuel on the command module to get home. Bigger module with enough fuel too heavy for take off from earth.hans_glib
- earthhans_glib
- i guess it could be done, but would take too long to develop for this mars missionhans_glib
- exactly, we can't haul that much fuel aroundmonospaced
- why are you guys stuck on liquid fuel when in the seventies they already had nuclear spaceship, I don't get itGeorgesII
- google itGeorgesII
- i know all about that. what was it - 10,000 deaths per launch from fall out?hans_glib
- Nobody wants nuclear waste in our orbit and around our planet.monospaced
- ZOOP0
Why do people need to be on Mars? Robots do more with a fraction of the cost, and no risk of death. Collective ego stroking?
- Because we're humans. We explore.CygnusZero4
- If everyone felt this way the Earth would still be flat.CygnusZero4
- With robots when $20k per pound is the cost just to achieve orbit around Earth. DerpZOOP
- Just the food and water for the Mars trip makes it unfeasible as of now or the near future.ZOOP
- monospaced0
I think the best method would be to create a smaller space-station that stayed in Mars orbit permanently. That way we could send groups to the orbit station and use a module to go back and forth from the planet surface. Perhaps fuel could be found/made using something out there instead of bringing it with us every time. If not, we could send the people separate from the fuel. Just a thought.
- that's all fine, but they couldn't do it by 2022. And they're impatient to get there.hans_glib
- ohmonospaced
- a 2022 mission is ridiculously stupid, anything real would take much longermonospaced
- monospaced0
Or, we send a bunch of robots and a bunch of specialized 3D printers that would build a habitable station for years before people even arrive.
- BOOMAl_dizzle
- <--- my head explodingAl_dizzle
- small 3d printer to print parts to build large 3d printer...vivid
- It still takes 8 months to get there. :( Either a new propulsion system or induced comas for astronauts.ZOOP
- And those printers need to make fuel collectors, it's going to be an issue of fuel for the return trip.ZOOP
- I like thisGeorgesII
- Printers could use a nuclear core to power them indefinitely.monospaced
- this kind of already exists
http://www.youtube.c…albums - Nice one, Japan has been building underground domes with robots since the '90s.ZOOP
- http://www.enviro-ne…monospaced
- GeorgesII0
launch from space or use a stargate,
fuck, make it sound like it's that hard
- ZOOP0
- GeorgesII0
Bring back project Orion, but use a plasma thrusther instead once you gained enough speed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro…
- BabySnakes0
So this trip will be continually funded through out these explores' lifetime? Would suck if they run out of money and can no longer send supplies over there.
