Jesus H. Christ, will someone please go to Mars already? Decades and decades of hearing this shit is starting to tick me off – we could’ve been there 20 years ago.

Just make sure someone smuggles some super pure cannabis seeds onboard, we’ll have that planet ready for people in no time!

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This is a silly idea. We couldn’t even get the “Biospheres” to work here on earth. On Mars, you’d need a similar dome, with only a fraction of sunlight we get, only 1% atmospheric pressure, and no soil to work with. How are you going to build the dome, heat it, pressurize it, and grow food in it, if you can’t even do that her on Earth, yet?

It seems to me that a one way trip would only be easier than a round trip if you made it a suicide mission. Dumb idea all around.

Here is a beter one it saves money andworks on eliminating the Hate fear and Lies of the right. A one way trip to explore the SUN, these Idiots are NOT known for their Brains so we tell this Worst Spineless, Gutless, COWARDS that it is a free operative word is free trip to Mars and they will have Photo Ops., and Pictures with Military Leaders and Soldiers and un limited access to radio and TV. Now load this Zorhless Scum and trash into th Space ship and fire them into the Sun, polease make sure it is a MASS lauching as these COWARDS ill back out once the real reason and location is found out Now America is Happy and the Scum and Trash of America republicans and Brain Dead tea baggers are on a one way ride into the SUN. AAHH! the thought of this scum and trash burning up makes my day.
Have a great day and SPIT on a Spine;less Gutless republican or Brain dead tea bagger they LOVE IT.

Sounds like some early childhood training would be in order, having children brought up in a simulation of both space travel and colonization, of course, with the intent to pull a cord if that environment is causing stress to the children. The actualization of space travel and colonization I’m sure will have some unexpected twists and turns.

Of course OTOH it fits into my own little conspiracy theory that the Corporations power and money players had enough money to buy themselves an out as in off this planet should the results of their Mordorish mentality make life unlivable on earth. Of course, then my favorite second imagination play is with so many chiefs running around who are the followers going to be. I think it would be a most interesting demonstration of The Lord of the Flies.

where do i sign up, when do i leave?

Sounds more like a Twilight Zone idea. Oh, yeah, they already did that one.
We could send all the corporate oligarchs and repugs there first so they could check out possible
business opportunities so they can destroy their second planet. It would be a good starter kit.
And we could send them a communication after about ten years saying that the sane people still
left here finally saved the earth. Then tell them that budget cuts forced the ending of food and
supplies to them. And, have a nice day.

This sounds like a capitol idea. We could send the entire GOP, they can have all the power they want, Palin can have her “reality” shows up there, Boner can drink himself to oblivion, and the rest of us here on Earth can get on with our lives.

Dude:

Boner can’t go. The sunlight is too poor there to let him maintain his tan.

… the suggestion re: Palin is intriguing, though . . . .

Great. Humans are polluting Earth beyond sustainability, and now we want to pollute Mars? This is crazy. We can’t control our species-wide behavior here, we can’t be “good stewards” of the Earth, so now we want to give up and move on. Terrific.

Our weakness as a species is our insensitivity to exploiting resources, of decimating ecosystems without giving it a second thought, and then doing more of it. Because of our bloated presence on the globe, other species are going extinct at higher rates than in all of geological history. And yet we have the arrogance to think that we can live on another planet when we can’t even live on this one?

Oy.. we need help.

Why do we want to send people to Mars. Haven’t we screwed this planet up enough as it is why do that to poor old Mars.

I think this is a wonderful idea.

Hmmm…60…isn’t Rush around that age? For companionship he can take Glenn with him.

I’m getting my dibs in on owning the first Starbucks franchise there.

Good, now let’s build a ship big enough to put the US Congress on board and send them to Mars.

So your plan is to pollute the best chance of a second Earth in this solar system with an inefficient Government? Do you just hate the rest of us or what?

Rush had better wait until a pharmaceutical company establishes itself up there to supply him with his Viagra and Oxycontin. He’d better bring a suitcase of his toys too.

A new cure for depression. Forget suicide, just hop on a rocket!

I’m all for exploring and colonizing our solar system when we have the ability. It seems we have trouble replacing aging space shuttles and keeping the ISS supplied. Like the suggestion about deporting America’s knuckle draggers, but think we can find a cheaper way to take out the trash.

Mars isn’t going away to only point in rushing is to give the illusion that America leads. Seems if we wait our children will be able to book passage on a Chinese Space flight. Vanity is a poor reason to flush good money and people. We have done that enough on two or is it three wars.

Why does anyone believe that the human race is worth saving? ;)

-j

“–capitol idea”– Do you mean this idea originated in Washington, DC? Or did you mean to say –capital idea– which means: “First-rate; excellent”?

Nooo!!!! Don’t let the regressives destroy the galaxy like they destroyed Earth! Space is the new frontier! Our salvation! Normally, people who are forward-thinking and adventurous would be much more likely to leave Earth. It will also take a lot of cooperation for a society to function in space, which would encourage democratic socialism. Old people, religious people, conservatives, sentimental people, people consumed by fear and petty territorial materialists would almost always stay here on Earth, which all but guarantees that once space emigration gets going this place is going to turn into a retarded museum and old folks home that will never get over its problems. On the other hand, space colonization will attract the most innovative, progressive and reasonable people. So please don’t mess this up by exporting conservatism and nullifying these natural tendencies. The idiots can stay here and rot. I want a progressive space! JOIN ME IN A FORWARD-LOOKING FUTURE!!!!

Put bush jr. on the first flight

I stand corrected.

Um, as I remember my history most of the initial European colonization efforts would have failed miserably without the aid of the indigenous/native population. I guess we better hope this kind of endeavor works out better than Roanoke.

It’s a logical idea, but I suspect that one would have to be a fairly unique individual to leave on a voyage like this without eventually going mad or becoming so depressed as to become a burden to the mission. Very few of us could live in an entirely alien environment knowing we would never leave it. As harsh as it may sound, the best bet might be to send newborn babies there, along with a small contingent of non-parent elders who would instruct growing children on operating whatever mechanisms of survival we sent along with them. Hawking said that humans will become extinct unless we send a colony off Earth, and it’s not hard to see his logic. Young children, with no sentimental attachments to Earth and no expectations about how life should be could end up being our best bet for survival as a species.

I’ve been waiting to go for decades.

Sign me up, in the “few decades” I’ll be almost 50. Perfect for this mission. And I’d go without any second thoughts. This is what I have dreamed of my whole life. Like I said, sign me up.

Bankers first, Politicians second, lawyers third – they’ll create a wonderful new planet together!

You beat me to it!!!!
My thoughts exactly.

Id go in a heartbeat, no question, no hesitations.

Talk about gays in the military, and gay marriage…. Send a bunch of guys on a one way trip to Mars..and see who falls for whom.. The same stuff goes on in the prisons.

Good luck getting on one of the last ships off! The rich will destroy this planet and leave with their bags of Gold to Mars. Unfortunately for his fellow passengers, Snidley Snodgrass, stowed away too much Gold and the last ship never leaves. Not that bags of Gold would have done Snidley any good on Mars…but hey, if you can’t take it with you, why steal it to begin with?

Yes, please do, but be sure it is one way one. No return ticket for those theives.

Perhaps Glenn likes “full figured boys” like Rush.

The idea is awesome but people seem to forget about communication. Transmissions can only travel as fast as the light waves they are riding on meaning after a certain distance it will take 7 minutes for each transmission, at some point the sun will be between mars and earth making it roughly 14 minutes to receive and 14 minutes to send. Now if there is an accident on a ship in space 28 minutes is far too long for adequate response. It’s going to have to take a huge leap in communication to make it a feasible and far less dangerous. If only we had an Ansible or FTL drive haha.

can we send Bush? and the whole of Congress, the Supreme Court too.

talk about saving America from Terrorists!

Lots of people would volunteer for a one way trip to Mars.
But I’m not buying the argument that a mars colony is a lifeboat for mankind.
1) A Mars colony has no means of sustaining itself, and would require constant resupply from Earth
2) A supernova of our Sun would render Mars just as unhabitable as Earth
3) Terraforming EARTH herself is infinitely easier than trying on Mars
Lets fix the planet we have PLEASE.

Can Sarah Palin be the beta tester for this new one-way excursion?

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Send all the jailbirds to mars

My wife and I would be proud to go.

I am an IT-Electronics Specialist/Psychologist, she is an EMT/Cosmotologist.

Actually no, we coudn’t have been there 20 years ago. We can’t even get there today. We have no idea how to land a payload large enough to sustain any kind of population on Mars. We’re talking MUCH larger than any lander we’ve successfuly put on the surface. To put it simply, the atmosphere is too thin to slow down your spacecraft or inflate a large enough parachute while the gravity on Mars is great enough to rule out any kind of landing similar to the Apollo moon landings.
A large, heavy vehicle flying through its thin atmosphere only has about 90 seconds to slow from Mach 5 to under Mach 1, change and re-orient itself from being a spacecraft to a lander, deploy parachutes to slow down further, then use thrusters to translate to the landing site and finally, gently touch down. Right now we just don’t have the technology, it’s as simple as that.
What about airbags? I hear you say. Well the forces experienced by the twin rovers when they bounced along the surface ranged from 10 to 20 G’s. Sorry but humans just cannot stand those forces, it’d mean instant death.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Reference: http://www.universetoday.com/7024/the-mars-landing-approach-getting-large-payloads-to-the-surface-of-the-red-planet/

Actually, as soon as former President Bush suggested travel to Mars, I thought that sending him there on a non-return trip would be a good idea.

one way trip … hmm … that’s probably a real short list of eligible volunteers …

I’d go. Prospect of work here is slim. If they are taking volunteers to colonize, I’m game.

This is clearly Obama’s fault.

The answer is yes. Yes we can send Bush. Someone also suggested Sarah Palin. The down side is the extraordinarily low intelligence level with which you initiate the new Martian gene pool.

I bet Rush has big man boobs too. Glen will have his hands full or a mouthful. anyhow the very though of these twonbecomming one flesh leaves me queasy.

They says it’s not a suicide mission, and then later in the article they say we want to send old people cuz the radiation is gonna shorten a healthy person’s lifetime. Hello this is a suicide mission, because someone is older doesn’t make it any less so. Unless we learn how to prevent cancer with cell repairing micro-machines. Which is possible in say 50 years. No sane government will be sending people to their death just to say man stepped on Mars. I used to work for NASA and used to listen to these crack-pots talks about colonizing the moon. I’m not saying this stuff will never happen, but it’s a long long way off.

Send Maw Griz to Mars for her next teevee show. Then she can keep an eye on Russia without bothering any more actual mama grizzlies and their cubs.

Draft all teagaggers and everyone from Westboro Baptist “Church.”

Yes, they can practice what they preach and pull themselves up by their own boot straps. We on earth would be so blessed by their departure that the rapture will be canceled. Jesus will somehow tell his followers that he has changed his mind and wont appear here again ever.

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I’d do it.

Ship harvesters/converters ahead of time. Whatever’s in the atmosphere, right, or send air tanks to remain there for future missions to harvest. Land some planter boxes full of nutrient-rich soil and some water, etc. Long-term stuff, we’re talkin’. We got the rest of eternity ahead of us.

I’ll donate $10 a paycheck for that.

At that rate, it wouldn’t be long before they were attacking earth, and pillaging it’s natural resources. Wait a minute, they’re already doing that…

This would be perfect for all theofascists…except they believe all scientists are atheists. I guess that means “science” couldn’t get them to Mars. Or that gravity is why stuff hits the floor when they drop it.

I don’t know, if we send older people (seniors) there first that sounds way risky BECAUSE they are in weaker health. Shit, what if they die on the way to Mars or once they are on Mars? Helloooo??!? That could ruin the whole damn mission. Send some daring, scientific minded younger people who don’t care about procreating anyways, and who are sick of living amongst close to 7 billion humans. Many of us do know people like this, there are millions of them out there. Send younger people there who’ll be alive long enough to see a supportive colony pop up, instead of people who likely won’t live long enough to see that. Whoever we send should be alive on that planet as long as possible
By the way, what the hell are these people going to eat on mars? Are they going to grow fruit trees and vegetable gardens and other crops? Drop off a bunch of cows, pigs and chickens? wtf yo?

Ok. Sign me up for never coming back.

1) A mars Colony could sustain it self, look it up if you don’t belive me :)
2) If the sun becomes a supernova our solar system would be fucked, But going to mars is a first step of getting out of our solar system.
3) Yeah, its easier, but our population is incresing and soon earth won’t be enough for us.

thats how humans came to live on earth! some aliens dropped off two little kids on the blue planet. Adam and Eve

Look up “Quantum entanglement” It seems to come in handy in a situation like that, basically two particles with the exact same properties separated over great distances will instantly react to whatever is done to its twin due to quantum wierdness :P
It’s not reliable enough yet though.

I think this is so similar to the European colonization of new england. Its land that has never been set foot on. The spaceship sent to colonize mars should definatly be doubed the Mayflower, and the ones that follow should definatly be named after ships that came to the new land in 1492. And the colonys on mars should declare independence from the united states and make mars the best planet in the solar system! they could do so much better without the u.s and the people of mars can live free!

I hear you, that would be a libertarian dream come true, no liberals to tax your wealth

A one way trip to Mars should be required of all congressman seeking more than two terms.

That’s loser talk.

Failure is not an option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Mars
People have been studying this stuff for decades.

One plan is an inflatable, kevlar-like “living pod”, put in a hole and covered over with Mars dirt (radiation protection). Modular, you could make bigger living spaces by connecting a half dozen of these things, like those tennis half-domes that are under positive pressure.

Clear plastic pods, non-covered, could be used to grow plants.

Davies and Schulze-Makuch say it’s important to realize they’re not proposing a “suicide mission.”
“The astronauts would go to Mars with the intention of staying for the rest of their lives, as trailblazers of a permanent human Mars colony,” they wrote.

“The rest of their lives” will probably not be long, or overly pleasant – but they WILL get in the history books, which is more than most people can say. At least they will have an Internet connection for the few weeks/months they survive on Mars, and they could do a few interviews, blogs – and leave their family some nice chunk of change.
There would definitely be volunteers.

You betcha !

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Sarah Palin’s Mars takes viewers into the country’s ‘final frontier’ through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens – Sarah Palin. Sarah is joined by various family member sock puppets as she shares the planet she knows and loves. Along with Mars’s great wilderness, Sarah encounters Mars’s fascinating three other residents and shares what its takes to thrive in the planet’s largest living pod.

Oh, yeah! Love this idea. I’d start by putting Bush and Cheney on that first one-way trip to Mars. Or maybe, Uranus. He he…

I’d go in a heart beat. Reminds me of the Mars trilogy written by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Refit the Shuttles as a Base(can do a lot of testing from Earth), Biosphere(plants will have a hard time without the effects of Our Moon over head) or what ever is first needed and Land one of them On Mars unmanned and leave the other in Mars Orbit unmanned as a Docking Station or for a return to Earth by the First Pioneers. What about Our Moon we should be setting up shop on the Moon first to see if we pesky Humans can mange on our own up there and Maybe Launch the Mars Mission from Lunar Moon that’s a better Fling Shot than the “Hohmann Transfer Orbit”. Keep on sending ships to dismantle for use, once on Mars.
Sounds more effective than a “One-Way Trip”!

I have promoted this concept for years. Here is my take. An extensive search of the thousands of people currently serving life terms in the prison system would surely result in a few dozen candidates for the mission. Those chosen would go with a specific task to complete, each consecutive task building on the prior. Once complete, the astronaut would have the means to a speedy and painless end.

In exchange for their efforts, they would be awarded 1000 acres of prime Martian real-estate to be passed to whomever they decided. Once colonization of Mars is in full swing, their heirs would be very wealthy indeed.

Nothing to spend your wealth on, either ! :P

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id volunteer

I bet golf would be awesome there with the reduced gravity.

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