Are you going to sign up for the first manned, no return mission to mars?
To bad it is probably a large scam but it sure fooled/excited swedish television an me 
2023?
We haven’t even landed people on Mars yet…let alone have people live on it. All that in 11 years?
Unlikely.
Either a scam or some a really optimistic R&D department.
Paying a domain for scam is really a job. Maybe they’ll leave us with tons of canned food, a tent, water machine and PC with satelite access.
I hope people realize that a human would die just standing on the mars surface for too long.
Because of the radiation, every manned mars mission, especially the first one, is a race against time to dig yourself into the ground before you die.
That is if you survive the months in space…
Just imagine, they have to train, like 8 hours a day or whatever, in space, just so that they are not loosing too much muscle and bone, so that they will not SHATTER when they come in contact with gravity again.
They really really have to use a revolving spaceship which fixes the gravity issue…
That being said, I’m still optimistic.
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Well not THAT optimistic =D
I’m interested in the “no return” part. What happens next? :persecutioncomplex:
You die…
I actually don’t think anyone will be living out the rest of their potential lifetime, on Mars. At least not in 2022 that is.
I still hope they try, though. It shall be spectacular!
Also, in regards to radiation and such they seem to have that figured out. Their FAQ is quite elaborate, for a scam.
I don’t think this is a scam. I don’t believe anyone would put so much money in such a website, would interview people, make these animations, just to troll other people.
And if that is not a scam, I think they kind of know, what they do. There would be too much people (scientists) against them.
Personally, I find this project really intresting. I mean… living on the Mars is like the dream of flying in the history of the human. But I would never sign up for such a project. I really love my life here on Earth, even if on the Mars there are the most intresting things to see in the whole universe, I would not go there, because of the missing social contacts, and the overall hard life. (And I would not have time to program!!! :O)
Seems like a half-year-long trip to prison.
I think that after a few hours, you’ve bloody seen it already!
How would they figure out things like medicine? The people that are to live the rest of their lives on another planet can’t be without medicine, right?
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They “plan” to send a huge batch of supplies before any humans arrive there. Also, they “plan” to send 40 people there. If someone gets some medical problems, you can always send some medicine (and maybe one of those med-pods they have in Prometheus )
Reads “Crap! I forgot my insulin”
On a serious note: Unless they have a preexisting condition, how would they get sick? I mean… Unless their own bodies are at fault, like cancer.
Has anyone here seen the movie “Gattaca”?
and they’ll also probably send people with different backgrouds, like a doctor, a geologist, a programmer, etc.
I’d do it, but not for the first group. Maybe if there were already like 500 people there, “fast” internet access and such, I’d do it!
your internal organs could naturally fail, or have conditions like kidney stones.
I updated while you were writing :persecutioncomplex:
Well, old people usually eat a lot of pills every day. If there is not trip home, they will eventually want those pills as well
I have a feeling that 4 people on a separate planet for 2 years before the next group arrives will take it’s toll on the astronauts. It must be really, really lonely to be alone on Mars with only 3 other people that you hardly knew before to socialize with.
Define “fast”. At the speed of light your best ping time to Earth and back is six minutes.
I think the idea is that they train together for 10 years before they go. They will know eachother very well.
It’s still very lonely though… Unless you bring a console
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Best: 2 x (249200000 - 149000000) km / c = 11 minutes.
Worst: 2 x (249200000 + 149000000) km / c = 44 minutes.