400 people have volunteered for one-way mission to Mars so far

[hyperdog]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...-Schmucks-Sign-Up-For-One-Way-Mission-to-Mars

Since a return home trip would be too costly, a one-way trip has been planned for year 2030. Everyone landing on Mars will live there and eventually die there. When I first read this, I asked myself who would want to go? And now 400 people have already volunteered, apparently all serious.

 

[nondescriptive]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...-Schmucks-Sign-Up-For-One-Way-Mission-to-Mars

Since a return home trip would be too costly, a one-way trip has been planned for year 2030. Everyone landing on Mars will live there and eventually die there. When I first read this, I asked myself who would want to go? And now 400 people have already volunteered, apparently all serious.

"You blabbed about mars!!"

 

[seth gecko]

"You blabbed about mars!!"

You have made me verrrrry angrrrrry

 

[seth gecko]

Dammit Cohagen, giff da peepul da err!!

 

[blackrock13]

Volunteered? Applied maybe.

 

[richaceg]

Hmmm...first i need to know how's the employment when I arrive and of course the compensation...then I need to know if hobbying would be legal...400 people? it better be 350 - 50 women to men ratio.

 

[OddSox]

Given the opportunity, I think I would go.

 

[Terminator2000]

Will SPs and MPAs be legal on Mars?
Will Mammoliti be coming along?

Yes. some of the SPs and MPAs on Mars will even have THREE breasts instead of the usual just two. So much more variety.

 

[JonSlid]

What is the life expectancy while on Mars? Oh, guess I should read the article.

 

[JonSlid]

Hmmm...first i need to know how's the employment when I arrive and of course the compensation...then I need to know if hobbying would be legal...400 people? it better be 350 - 50 women to men ratio.

I would hope the ratio is closer to 50/50, sort of like "Survivor". In this case, I hope the ladies are open-minded and want to fcuk around.

 

[harryass]

did anyboby tell the volunteers that the supply of oxygen is only 6 months?

 

[afterhours]

I would hope the ratio is closer to 50/50, sort of like "Survivor". In this case, I hope the ladies are open-minded and want to fcuk around.

Mind you, everybody is presumably medically tested so nobody on board has AIDS. It will be a bareback fuckfest.

 

[LKD]

i certainly would go if allowed... think of all the 'firsts' you could attach your name to in Mars

 

[rhuarc29]

I'd certainly consider it. It's the ultimate adventure. To be one of the first colonists of Mars...that's an incredible accomplishment.

To be honest though, I think it would frighteningly isolated. There wouldn't be much communication with Earth. All ties you have with people here at home would be severed the day you blast off. All the comforts you became accustomed to here would be non-existent. You'd probably be mostly couped up inside. There wouldn't be much variety in scenery and livelihood. Depending on how many people go, you wouldn't have much in the way of social variety either.

What I find the most disturbing though, is that the first people sent would most likely die before anything major was accomplished. A one-way ticket to see the beginning of something incredible, but which you'll never see come to fruition. I don't think I could accept that.

 

[Brill]

I would go if I was invited, but I wouldn't bother applying because I don't think I have skills they're looking for. I doubt they want someone just hanging around making wisecracks or only doing physical labour or what I do for a living, they want those with a science or engineering background.
Maybe I'd be used only for impregnating the females? :eyebrows:

We're all going to die somewhere, it doesn't matter to me if it was on Mars.

 

[hyperdog]

I'm surprised that so quickly some people here on TERB say that they might go. And for what it's worth, I'm very certain that women must go in order to give birth there and propogate the human race.

 

[friedrice]

did anyboby tell the volunteers that the supply of oxygen is only 6 months?

It's right there in the mice type at the bottom of the disclaimer

 

[hyperdog]

They should make a movie out of this. They all pass their psychiatric evaluations, but then when they get there....

 

[5hummer]

Wouldn't it be funny if the 400 people that do go are greeted by a welcoming committee of 400 that arrived earlier (because of advanced warp-space tech)

 

[yababy]

Mars is closer to earths temperpent more then any other planet .There is evidence that Mars once had rivers, streams, lakes, and even an ocean. As Mars' atmosphere slowly depleted into outer space, the surface water began to permanently evaporate. Today the only water on Mars in either frozen in the polar caps or underground.If you weighed 70 pounds on earth you would weigh 27 pounds on mars Mar.s has higher mountains, and deeper canyons than any other planet