Mars One hopes to have people living on the planet — for the rest of their lives — by 2023.(Mars One/YouTube)
Posted on 03/17/2013 9:20:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Mars One co-founder tells CBC about its proposed one-way trip to the Red Planet
Mars One hopes to have people living on the planet — for the rest of their lives — by 2023.(Mars One/YouTube)
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.
"The technology to bring humans from Mars back to Earth simply does not exist yet."
Lansdorp said he's looking for people who are utterly dependable, good in groups and "at their best when things are at their worst."
The never-to-return explorers will require eight years of training, and the search starts this year.
The flight is scheduled to leave in Sept. 2022.
To hear the complete conversation, including how Lansdorp plans to fund the trip, click the audio button above.
If we find Afghanistan to be an over-reach in obligations by a previous administration, why would anybody want to go to Mars with somebody like Obama at the helm, in your rear, if you need support?
Chat? The speed of light is 186,282.397 miles per second. Mars is between 3.1 and 22.2 light minutes from Earth. Worst case, that means almost three quarters of an hour to ask a simple question and get a simple answer.
So, "chat" is not the right word. It would be more like exchanging videos in the mail, albeit with a relatively fast mail man.
Obviously, the horrendous latency of the connection would dictate changes to normal internet protocols designed to minimize the number of "line turn-arounds".
The number of people who’ve never had a whiff of claustrophobia and then find it raging inside of an MRI, for example, is quite large. Forget the ‘dying there’ part...the 6 month journey inside a small confined tube may cause a few minds to snap before they even get there.
One person goes nuts and they are all dead - what could go wrong?
NASA: We can't promise you any sort of mission success, but we can guaranty a 100% "green death"!
Damn, you’re already forgetting your birthday. You’re out. I’ll be a chipper 55. Out of the pool.
Astronauts Ken and Dave felt the flight was faring quite well despite the use of biofuels to power the engines until NASA mission control instructed them to move into the capsule of wicker for entry into the atmosphere...
I have grokked that........ “Stranger in a strange land”.
Don’t know... many would be thrilled to be the first person to live and die on Mars.
Watch reruns of "My Favorite Martian"?
Is open carry legal on Mars? I might want to go.
Do Direct Deposit
They haven’t really perfected that bio-dome concept here on Earth have they?
It would be easier by far to set up a selfsufficient colony in the middle of Antarctica, yet we don’t for numerous excellent reasons. The excellent reasons to not do it on Mars are even greater.
A planet requires a strong magnetic field, lot’s of water, and the seeding of microbial life to produce oxygen before it is suitable for human colonization.
The New World had oxygen and water. Note that Europeans weren't loading up ships with settlers headed to Northern Greenland to prove that it could be done.
In short, the New World offered the promise of better living conditions, with a lot more freedom of action. Not always fulfilled, but the promise existed. Mars promises new settlers a crappy existence and far less freedom.
Hopeffully they will not have a lot of beans on the menu. Just imagine stuck in a bus sized spaceship with a flatulent co-traveller.
The New World had oxygen and water. Note that Europeans weren't loading up ships with settlers headed to Northern Greeland to prove that it could be done.
In short, the New World offered the promise of better living conditions, with a lot more freedom of action. Not always fulfilled, but the promise existed. Mars promises new settlers a crappy existance and far less freedom.
I’d do it in a heartbeat, but I seriously doubt they’d want me.
BTW, Mars gravity is less than half the problem. The problem isn’t just Mars gravity, it’s the earth and sun’s a gravity. After falling downhill from Mars’ orbit to Earth’s orbit and getting an addition and significant tug from Earth’s gravitational field, you need a lot of braking to slow up and not hurdle past earth and back to the orbit of Mars, or burn up on reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere. The specific kinetic energy associated with the fall from Mars to Earth more than 8X that from the Moon to Earth.
BTW, Mars gravity is less than half the problem. The problem isn’t just Mars gravity, it’s the earth and sun’s a gravity. After falling downhill from Mars’ orbit to Earth’s orbit and getting an addition and significant tug from Earth’s gravitational field, you need a lot of braking to slow up and not hurdle past earth and back to the orbit of Mars, or burn up on reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere. The specific kinetic energy associated with the fall from Mars to Earth more than 8X that from the Moon to Earth.
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