400 Unqualified Schmucks Sign Up For One-Way Mission to Mars

[VincentX3]

For the record, the one-way trip to Mars won't be launching anytime soon; the Journal of Cosmology estimated it would be 20 years before a privately-funded mission could get off the ground.

I LOL'D BIG TIME
I'll be back on this thread in 20years to lol at the amount of fail...again

WHO'S WITH ME?

 

[vrbtny]

This is the last thing we need: Mars, completely populated of people who are only American. Atleast send some Canadians up or something, mix it up a little.

What about the British? We could bring our weather.... actually, scratch that.

No!! Bring the British, we know how to make a good cup of tea!!!

 

[FalloutJack]

I like this. It could be funny. I'm not gonna call them stupid or anything. My guess? They got tired of the company that they keep and said "Let's do this thing, Star Trek style!". Eh, I don't blame 'em if others got on their nerves from here.

*Looks at people in the thread*

 

[Canid117]

This sounds like some shitty reality tv show from the future.

 

[philosophicalbastard]

I actually think this is a good idea. It would not only fix the population crisis, but also unemployment. We could also find valuable resources that could be mined by the colony.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

It's really not going to be as nice as they imagine, and they're not imagining it will be very nice.

I predict cannibalism in the first year.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Hm... The idea of sending 400 people into space alone is extraordinary, considering that in the Space Shuttle era of the NASA program, they only sent 7 people, and it was this ratio that essentially made it impossible to send more then a dozen to twenty people into space.

Still... I kinda like the idea, though I think we should just stick menaces to society and people that cause the world's culture to go through retardation.

This is the last thing we need: Mars, completely populated of people who are only American. Atleast send some Canadians up or something, mix it up a little.

Why? THey're not going to live. These people are sending themselves to die.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Please say the Admins are having a little joke at our expense... No? Ok then allow me to say lolololol they'll start killing each other a few weeks in... I mean there's no internet connection on Mars.

That would make a reality TV show i would actually watch though "day 345 Charles is currently battling Steven to the death on the surface of Mars. While Leeroy is picking off survivors with his sniper rifle in Atrium 7"

Also the reason "because it's different" has to be the worst reason to commit suicide via Mars evar!

 

[random_bars]

Anyone else think this would be an awesome premise for an RPG?

 

[Samurai Goomba]

This is the last thing we need: Mars, completely populated of people who are only American. Atleast send some Canadians up or something, mix it up a little.

What about the British? We could bring our weather.... actually, scratch that.

No!! Bring the British, we know how to make a good cup of tea!!!

Bah, I've been making good tea my whole life, and I'm American!

(grumble grumble... British, think nobody else can make tea... mumble... )

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Still... I kinda like the idea, though I think we should just stick menaces to society and people that cause the world's culture to go through retardation [on the ship].

Bad move, unless you want to create MARS AUSTRALIA!

Note for any mods: (Before you assume I'm insulting Australians, it's their history. Just stating that outright here before I get modded or some nonsense.)

 

[emeraldrafael]

I actually think this is a good idea. It would not only fix the population crisis, but also unemployment. We could also find valuable resources that could be mined by the colony.

How would you get it back? This is a one way journey.

Also... how are you goind to send 400 people into space without one of them even knowing how to operate the craft their in? They'll burn up and die from someone doing something like being "that guy who's a total douche" and screw something up in the craft. Ten to one odds it burns up before ever hitting the troposphere, fifty to one before it leaves the stratosphere, and 100 to one before it leaves the Mesosphere.

 

[MentalBakura]

If there was no life for me here, I'd probably do it. Might as well make myself useful, eh? It'd be interesting, before the madness kicks in at least.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Still... I kinda like the idea, though I think we should just stick menaces to society and people that cause the world's culture to go through retardation [on the ship].

Bad move, unless you want to create MARS AUSTRALIA!

Note for any mods: (Before you assume I'm insulting Australians, it's their history. Just stating that outright here before I get modded or some nonsense.)

Why? Its a suicide mission. They're all going to die (if they even make it out of the atmosphere without a qualified person to run the ship, and its not like they're coming back or sending anything back. this is just a way to get rid of the undesirables, like someone else said in this thread.

And I know what you mean about Australia. Its the Same with Georgia (the state, not the country). that was filled with prisoners (rapists and murders and such) and freed slaves so the Spanish didnt march right up to South Carolina from Florida.

 

[Mike Laserbeam]

Crap... What if they do manage to populate Mars? That's an entire planet led by mentalists... (Not in the Simon Baker sense)
What's more, they'd be religious and moronic, I don't think a crusade against Martians is a good idea... Look what happened to Israel...
They're going to ruin Mars for us! GODDAMNIT!


Crap... That started ironic but I don't think it ended that way...

 

[Space Jawa]

As much as I'd love to go to space some day, I don't think I'd ever want to take a one-way suicide trip there. Unless I was at the stage of life where I couldn't be expected to live long enough for the return trip, anyway.

 

[zfactor]

Hm... The idea of sending 400 people into space alone is extraordinary, considering that in the Space Shuttle era of the NASA program, they only sent 7 people, and it was this ratio that essentially made it impossible to send more then a dozen to twenty people into space.

Still... I kinda like the idea, though I think we should just stick menaces to society and people that cause the world's culture to go through retardation.

NASA only sent up a few people at a time because they brought them back. And they all knew just about everything about the ship. Any of them could fly the ships or fix the ships. They all knew what they were doing.

And do you realize how big the ship would need to be? They would need to carry supplies for a long time (unless everyone plans on starving after a few days). There is literally nothing humans can use to survive on mars (ok, it has ice caps, but no food or atmosphere to grow food). There are some jets that fit 400 people, but you would have to live in it, not sit in it for a few hours. So they would need to bring construction materials to build a temporary colony. If you do that, you might as well build a permenant one and be done with it.

So I don't think this is possible right now. It might be after the construction of a space elevator (which would make bringing materials and people into space really really really easy).

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

When are you gonna reach the planet you're meant to be colonising?

Oh, well we're nearly there!... I think... yes. Any second now. Well it's probably time I got out of the bath in fact. Ha ha. Oh... I don't know though... why stop just when you're enjoying it, you know I always say...

So we're actually going to land in a minute?

Well not, not, not so much land in fact, I think as far as I can remember we're programmed to, er... crash on it.

"Crash"?

Yes. It's all part of the plan... I think. There was terribly good reason for it which I can't... quite... remember at the moment.

You're a load of useless, bloody loonies!!

Ah, yes, that was it, that was reason it was. Ha. Pass me the loofah will you?

The other two-thirds, of course, stayed at home and lived full, rich, and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

Ghastly. It all is. Just don't even talk about it.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Hm... The idea of sending 400 people into space alone is extraordinary, considering that in the Space Shuttle era of the NASA program, they only sent 7 people, and it was this ratio that essentially made it impossible to send more then a dozen to twenty people into space.

Still... I kinda like the idea, though I think we should just stick menaces to society and people that cause the world's culture to go through retardation.

NASA only sent up a few people at a time because they brought them back. And they all knew just about everything about the ship. Any of them could fly the ships or fix the ships. They all knew what they were doing.

And do you realize how big the ship would need to be? They would need to carry supplies for a long time (unless everyone plans on starving after a few days). There is literally nothing humans can use to survive on mars (ok, it has ice caps, but no food or atmosphere to grow food). There are some jets that fit 400 people, but you would have to live in it, not sit in it for a few hours. So they would need to bring construction materials to build a temporary colony. If you do that, you might as well build a permenant one and be done with it.

So I don't think this is possible right now. It might be after the construction of a space elevator (which would make bringing materials and people into space really really really easy).

Thats what I was saying when I siad the proportions made it difficult to send more then seven up there and just to bring them back. UNless they stopped at the space station for a refueling/supplying mission.