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No, and definitely not with this group Isaac Send a noteboard - 24/04/2013 10:26:03 AM

I'm not going to waste time on nasty remarks about the Reality TV aspect of this, since that is in many ways what NASA's been doing all along without the trumped up low-brow drama and I wouldn't expect this here either, though we got it with Biosphere 2.

This thing won't happen, it isn't up to the task technically or financially, and if it did those people would probably die en route or shortly after. They wouldn't, in the optimistic scenario, live out full lives. Most likely if things went well we'd end up having to mount a disgustingly expensive retrieval operation or a bigger colony, to no tangible gain for science or economics.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

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If you could, would you move permanently to Mars? - 24/04/2013 03:30:55 AM 1688 Views
You want to go where? *NM* - 24/04/2013 06:29:07 AM 518 Views
Have you read the 'Mars' trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson? - 24/04/2013 06:37:26 AM 1102 Views
Well, I'll look into it. - 24/04/2013 07:13:05 PM 1006 Views
"Digital Descendants" - 25/04/2013 09:30:54 PM 1020 Views
I think it's incredible that such a thing is even being attempted - 24/04/2013 08:13:16 AM 1095 Views
I know. It really perplexes me that so many people are so down on it. - 24/04/2013 07:19:42 PM 1044 Views
I am not gonna lie - 24/04/2013 08:24:57 AM 1030 Views
No, and definitely not with this group - 24/04/2013 10:26:03 AM 1107 Views
What's the problem, technically? - 24/04/2013 07:24:22 PM 1006 Views
Basically? Mass and redundancy - 24/04/2013 10:40:30 PM 1001 Views
The mass is what I wondered about. - 24/04/2013 11:03:36 PM 968 Views
Fuel costs are linear to mass, total costs are probably less - 25/04/2013 12:20:55 AM 915 Views
To put this in perspective, adding to Issac's points - 25/04/2013 01:50:38 AM 975 Views
That's not really a fair comparison. - 25/04/2013 08:18:35 PM 997 Views
Re: That's not really a fair comparison. - 26/04/2013 02:22:18 AM 889 Views
Re: That's not really a fair comparison. - 26/04/2013 08:58:45 PM 1113 Views
I agree with your points, but you've still only listed financial (not technical) problems. - 25/04/2013 08:22:25 PM 1022 Views
Finacial problems are technical problems - 25/04/2013 10:19:17 PM 943 Views
Maybe we just have different definitions. - 26/04/2013 09:25:33 PM 1053 Views
Re: Maybe we just have different definitions. - 26/04/2013 10:54:11 PM 945 Views
So, suppose someone put you in charge. - 27/04/2013 02:14:44 AM 964 Views
Well that would be a bad idea, but... - 27/04/2013 03:29:47 PM 1088 Views
Ask me when I am 60, I adored the Mar Trilogy though *NM* - 24/04/2013 12:54:58 PM 559 Views
It's all about prospects and hard work. - 24/04/2013 03:16:56 PM 1151 Views
I wouldn't go like that. - 24/04/2013 05:15:09 PM 992 Views
No, but I wouldn't mind sending a few people there - 25/04/2013 01:52:56 AM 983 Views
Not with that. - 25/04/2013 07:32:40 PM 934 Views
Probably. - 26/04/2013 10:02:58 PM 882 Views
This is by far the most elaborate form of suicide ever proposed. - 10/08/2013 08:04:43 AM 1665 Views

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