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

[RobCoxxy]

Hell, if we have a way to keep these idiots people alive for a considerable time, you know, build greenhouses and the like, it would be an interesting solution to overpopulation.

When life emulates The Onion...

Wow. Just wow.

Ha! :')

 

[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!!!

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

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

I didn't say that you couldn't make tea.... the english just make it better.

[small]we've had more practice after all[/small]

 

[Viivrabe]

And the pioneers were qualified in what way, they learned what needed to be done when it happened.

if it doesn't work out it will be a sweet deal for the movie industry as they tell the tale of disaster; if it works ya we have ppl living full-time on another planet.

and if they all die, we lose nothing except an expensive machine\

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.

at that point it doesn't matter if they were American, at that point they would be Martian

And BTW which country has the highest diversity?

 

[Keith K]

Will there be a livestream?

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Guys, I highly doubt they will send a bunch of random people on a potentially billion dollar mission. You can bet these people will be rigorously tested physically and mentally. They'll just lack the diverse skill sets of modern astronauts.

 

[Archwright]

Just ship them out to a completely lifeless desert in the middle of nowhere. They won't know the difference.

 

[Fearzone]

Hahahahaha.... Yeah I know the feeling. Been there done that with Earth. It's a beautiful place and all but... I've seen it. Let me bring a handheld and I'm good to go. So sign me up I'm down with this.

 

[Danpascooch]

I imagine the worst feeling in the world would be about a week after take off, when they realize "what the FUCK HAVE I DONE" and just collapse into a psychologically broken mess as they realize they just committed suicide in the most lonely drawn out way possible.

 

[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.

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.

If the resources are valuable enough you can afford send a ship over there to collect it.

You can also install a computer on the ship to fly the thing and prevent some random douche from fucking things up.

 

[Danpascooch]

And the pioneers were qualified in what way, they learned what needed to be done when it happened.

if it doesn't work out it will be a sweet deal for the movie industry as they tell the tale of disaster; if it works ya we have ppl living full-time on another planet.

and if they all die, we lose nothing except an expensive machine\

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.

at that point it doesn't matter if they were American, at that point they would be Martian

And BTW which country has the highest diversity?

Diversiland! The secret society that lives under the Earth and seeks to represent every race!

 

[smeghead25]

Look, just because they ain't university qualified is probably a good. The people who signed up may know how to actually fix mechanical stuff, unlike University grads..... who know how to write a good essay.

Honestly, if I was going, I would prefer to be with the guy who could fix the oxygen generator -- and not the guy who can write a highly literate report about the advantages of repairing the damn thing.

Yeah, I honestly don't know where you got "university qualified" from? It's entirely reasonable to call people who have no survival skills or who have normal day jobs like computer programming and office work, 'unqualified'. Being qualified doesn't mean having the ability to write a big essay, it means having the necessary skills for whatever job they happen to be doing. And I would prefer an essay-writing engineering-graduate to a school dropout who did an apprenticeship in plumbing.

 

[squid5580]

Hey can we sign up other people??

 

[zfactor]

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.

That's why I'm advocating a space elevator. You just send the stuff up on an elevator connected to a space station in a geosynchonus orbit (I think I spelled that right... It means the space station is in a high enough orbit to always be above the same point on the ground. It's how GPS satilites work.). Initial cost would be high, but it would be really inexpensive to maintain a hotel up there. And who doesn't want to spend a weekend in space?

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE, BITCHES!

...sorry, I get super excited about space travel and I forgot NASA lost all most of its funding...

-sigh-

 

[Citrus]

Actually, I wouldn't mind going on a suicide mission to Mars, but only if I were old and dying and the alternative was a retirement home. And I had a buggy.

But I imagine 400 other suicidal people would make for pretty poor company.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

20 years?

Who needs to wait, just stuff them in a really big cannon and fire!

Nothing can go wrong

 

[Wickedshot]

Too many people on earth, the perfect solution is sending hordes to new lands. Even if they are unqualified, a horde can still manage amazing things (one zombie is usually slow and useless, but a horde of zombies cannot be stopped).

First we should send streams of unmanned mini bio domes, then just keep sending anyone who's willing to go in self flying ships. It would be hard for most, and many would die, just like the pioneers, but eventually they'd make progress and we'd have another planet dominated by humanity and the exploration of space could finally make real progress.

 

[The Last Nomad]

Where do I sign up?