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

[TheLiham]

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... )

You haven't tried my tea!

My tea is so good all my friends make me make them tea

 

[CharrHearted]

Well this is one way of lowering the population...

 

[yundex]

Some things in life are worth dying for to some, and this is one of them. I wouldn't go though, no hot blue alien chicks

 

[Alandoril]

Well what did they expect? There was hardly likely to be a long line of unemployed astronauts...

Besides, couldn't they train the candidates? Oh, wait sorry it's modern corporations so they expect everyone to already have experience even though they can't get the experience without being given a job, my bad.

 

[blind_dead_mcjones]

i for one applaud this, they know what the risk is and if they still want to go ahead who are we to stop them?

besides, most of the worlds greatest explorers were insane to some degree, you have to be to try and be the first to go to the places they went (ie: antarctica, everest, i could go on) and those explorers weren't exactly qualified either so its not like there isn't a precedent

 

[Alar]

But if the water filtration unit breaks, then we're all going to get infected by a living water organism and try to return to Earth to infect the whole planet! :<

Personally, I'd rather just freeze myself for a hundred years and wait until there's a more viable form of inter-planetary travel.

 

[ph0b0s123]

To the story poster. Well aren't you full of poison. Yes, it is not a great idea to send idiots to Mars. But your response to their enthusiasm for this mission is to call the volunteers shmucks. You have issues....

 

[Pilkingtube]

Shouldn't we be trying this with the moon first? I'm just saying..

EDIT: Also I don't understand the space elevator, the bit that it would be attached to is in space, there isn't anything holding it up there, it's just floating about. The moment that you stick a 5 ton carriage onto the cable attached to it and start pulling your way up, you're gonna pull your space station down to the planet no?

Oh, Unless the thing in space is firing thrusters to keep itself in the same position the whole time, but then surely that's almost the same as using thrusters to send a ship up.. meh.

 

[Desert Tiger]

Welcome to Mars! Here's your sledgehammer.

Thanks for working with Ultor!

 

[LadyRhian]

I'd be much more concerned about dying from radiation poisoning on Mars, since it doesn't have the Van Allen Belts to protect my pasty white ass from all that radiation the sun launches out every time there is a solar flare or solar prominence. And no matter how much of a tan I get, my ass is still pasty white when it comes to radiation.

 

[Thorvan]

The Martians are going to be like "WTF? How stupid are these earthlings?"

...Then they'll blast the humans with laser weapons.

Like things tend to do, yeah.

 

[TheAmazingHobo]

Let them go. Maybe something cool will happen, like maybe they'll all get sick with some sort of alien virus and turn into hideous monsters.

[small]*I've been playing a lot Dead Space[/small]

Pandorum!!!

He said "something cool".


That aside, I actually LIKE that idea a lot.
Isn´t this pretty much how any real colonization on earth worked so far ?
Send people, they try to establish or prepare a colony, they die.
Send more people, who try to use the already existing work to progress farther, they die etc.
Pretty sure that´s how America got started.

So then, in a couple (read: A LOT) years from now on, we will have Mars colony, who can then declare itself idependent, which starts a war that will lead to incredible bloodshed and ultimatly the invention of the deep-fried twinkie.

On second thought..... let´s not do this.

 

[znix]

Under qualified? What a stupid and narrow minded thing to say.

Educate them! Then they'll be qualified.

 

[Wintermoot]

you could make a reality show from this! the loser gets thrown out of the nearest airlock! we can call it: Big Brother NASA edition!

 

[lasting_Child]

I'm a doctor, not a colonist!

 

[hansari]

...So then, in a couple (read: A LOT) years from now on, we will have Mars colony, who can then declare itself idependent, which starts a war that will lead to incredible bloodshed and ultimatly the invention of the deep-fried twinkie.

On second thought..... let´s not do this.

But how else are we gonna get to Gundam Space Warfare?!?!?!

The Japanese are already investing in space expansion. Wake up sheeple!!

 

[Mylinkay Asdara]

The early explorers on Earth always took clergy with them

... and that worked out fine for them - rather differently for the natives, historically speaking. Not that I am expecting there to be natives, but I wonder if someone thought before they said this - like, about the lots and lots of other religions they don't happen to represent having a presence. Hm.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Wait, who's going to fly the thing? I doubt if they'll send a skilled pilot (it takes too long to train those guys) and you need to have somebody steering. Not to mention the general lack of breathable atmosphere on Mars means spacesuits and who's going to be in charge of those? Unless this whole thing is automated its going to end up a technological disaster. Let's not even consider the fact that will almost certainly devolve into a bad reality tv show or lord of the flies. This is just a terrible idea from every stand-point.