Topic: 200,000 people apply to be first to live on Mars - page 7. (Read 7520 times)

Do they accept Bitcoins?


That is scary, why would someone do that, wasting their whole life away from this beautiful planet.

I don't understand why someone would want to be farmer, or any sort of frontier either...

Some people think they like to go to the unexplored and live there...

This is so cool! 

In 1000 years time humans will be travelling to mars for vacations.

Wow, just wow.. I cannot fathom as to why someone would want to live out the rest of their life on Mars with no return ticket. I see so many problems with this already..

When there's a hundred thousand robots there, building things and extracting minerals and materials that we need, and they have been working for ten years, then we could go.

Mars does have the basic elements in quantities sufficient to support life, but it would need those robots running farms and ranches (sort of) before we could go.  None of these things are easy at all.

And there's a problem with the red dirt, which is apparently a strong oxidizer....your skin/lungs/stomach does not get along with it....

Primary reference for Mars:  google Robert Zubrin.

Another note:  If the landers were rocket based and not aerodynamic, they would have adequate power to weight to take off to low Mars orbit.   Then an entirely separate system is needed for transit between Mars and Earth.

Well someone has to do it and whoever does is going to be the "Adam and Eve" of the human race on Mars so that is something

this is mentioned quite often.. it sure would be fun as hell to go to mars, but it doesn't seem realistic for this to happen within our lifetime.

There will not be 200 000 people on Mars, that's the number of applicants. I think they was planning to send four people first, and then four more while the base was building. I have doubts about this project, but would be cool if they actually made it happen anytime soon.

Since i have family here on earth, i wouldn't take the trip basicly because i would never get to see them again. But in chase of they all died (very unlikely but still), then i would have no problem with living on Mars. For the love of god, you get to share your daily life with 199.999 other people..
My only concern is how/what currencies system they are gonna use and what they are gonna do in chase of a baby boom suddenly happening.

Probably nonsense! Why the hell do you want to go to the red planet. I mean all that will happen is they murder each other there when they start panic and realise they really can't go back.. Just a feeling.

Ugh Marsone..I hope they begin to accept Bitcoins, I can't wait to see how many Bitcoiners will fall for this scam.

I never thought I'd actually say this being I'm very Anarchist but I actually have ethical concerns about this, who the hell are these 200,000 people and why the hell would they be okay with a company actually telling them they don't have a return plan for a trip to Mars and that they don't even have the fucking technology yet. What kind of morons do they have runnin-.... Oh wait it's Fox, move along people.

Why you  would you even live on Mars?
we've got a perfectly good Earth right here 

we might use Mars for some mining or stuff but just to live there hmm
it has more disadvantages then advantages I think 

Go Earth

http://fox6now.com/2013/12/10/200000-people-apply-to-be-first-to-live-on-mars/

(CNN) — If you have ambitions of being one of the first people on Mars, listen up: A Dutch company says it is moving along with its plan to send four lucky Earthlings to colonize the Red Planet. The catch: They won’t ever come back.
The Mars One foundation announced Tuesday that it has secured lead suppliers for an unmanned mission launching in 2018, which involves a robotic lander and a communications satellite. Lockheed Martin has been contracted to study building the lander, and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. will develop a concept study for the satellite, Mars One said.
This first mission will demonstrate technology that would be involved in a permanent human settlement on Mars. If all goes well — and that’s still very much an “if” — the first pioneers could land on Mars in 2025.
Enthusiasm has been growing since the project’s first big announcement in April. More than 200,000 people have signed up to be prospective astronauts, Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp said in Washington on Tuesday.
Apparently, they’re OK with living out the rest of their lives on Mars. The technology for a return flight doesn’t exist — there’s no Kennedy Space Center launch pad over there! — and having a one-way trip greatly reduces costs, the company has said.
The application period is now closed, and by the end of this year, the company plans to notify those special folk who made it to Round 2.
The unmanned mission is the “most important and most difficult step of actually getting humans to Mars,” Lansdorp said.
It would also be the first privately funded planetary exploration mission.
“The opportunity to participate in that is just really exciting,” said Ed Sedivy, a chief engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems.
Lansdorp expects that the majority of funding for the unmanned missions will come from sponsors and partners, not public contributions.
The cost of the lander and satellite will be something that the contracted companies will study, although Mars One has a ballpark figure in mind, Lansdorp said.