Mars 2023

[Cavernio]

Sign up me.

http://mars-one.com/en/

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it's certainly possible.. would be cool to see it happen

[Spenner]

Earth's still pretty good. I wonder what the estimated cost of this would be (can I count the trillions of dollars with my two hands?)

I mean it would be cool but pretty unnecessary right now. Why plan to send people before having an elaborate ecosystem and architecture built on the planet with sustaining sources of energy/food/water?

[Xiz]

im totally making a video. give me a few days

[Cavernio]

wow the homepage changed already

[04im]

"The project is the brainchild of Bas Lansdorp, a Dutch businessman."


end of story

[Choofers]

bas lansderp

[Arntonach]

It's nice to see someone making an attempt at space travel. Hope something good comes out of it.

[Izzy]

Is this a scam? Pretty sure this is not real.

[alphanish]

As lovely as this sounds... I have quite a bit i want to do before going into space and getting uber cancer.

[Izzy]

http://www.ibtimes.com/mars-mission-...or-scam-701603

I'm not really convinced. It is incredibly fishy considering they want to you to pay to sign up.

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that and the plan seems not that amazingly well thought out

[igotrhythm]

On the one hand, it could be to weed out the 4channers. On the other hand, it DOES kinda smell fishy.

As much as I want to believe that this is for real (seriously, designing life support so people can survive the trip is the hard part, best to get that out of the way first), I just can't. Maybe it's that cynical old man in me starting to rear his bald head.

[Xiz]

would weed be legal on mars?

[Fluvs]

So ditch earth for mars I don't know....

[Cavernio]

it's real, can't not be, nope, imma see people living on mars in 10 years, won't it be neat, don't crush my dreams

heard about it on 16x9 that also talked about that guy who made 12 billion dollars selling land on the moon

[Reach]

There are so many ways this can fail even if they put together billions upon billions needed for funding.

I mean, what about the technology? It's hard enough to land a rover on mars. Do they even have proof of concept of sustained flight for 7+ months carrying all of the equipment necessary to live there and set up a sustainable system and land properly on the surface with some modicum of probability of success? :S

You'd have to land like 100+ tonnes of equipment on the surface if you plan to stay there. I'm pretty sure nobody has figured out how to do that yet. Also, pretty sure they still haven't solved even the most basic problems such as dust and the ability to sustain storms on mars. Not to mention we know there are microorganisms on the surface now. What about medical staff? What happens if someone gets infected? Quarantine? The infection could be completely unknown to us.

What's NASA"s take on this?

Sounds like a horrible idea. lmao

[Izzy]

Even if every single person on the planet devoted the next 10 years of their life to making this happen, would it be possible?

Does earth have the neccesary resources to establish interplanetary civilization?

[xVaLoRx]

i can only imagine the massive amount of regret some people will have when they realize "wow, i moved to a planet that is a pile of dust"

[Pseudo Enigma]

just smells like they want guinea pigs for an experiment to me. The idea of space travel sounds scary enough for me, so no thank you!

even if they can pull this off in the next 10 years, I'm fine with the planet I have right now.