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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 1718 Views
You want to go where? *NM* - 24/04/2013 06:29:07 AM 535 Views
Have you read the 'Mars' trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson? - 24/04/2013 06:37:26 AM 1131 Views
Well, I'll look into it. - 24/04/2013 07:13:05 PM 1029 Views
"Digital Descendants" - 25/04/2013 09:30:54 PM 1048 Views
I think it's incredible that such a thing is even being attempted - 24/04/2013 08:13:16 AM 1116 Views
I know. It really perplexes me that so many people are so down on it. - 24/04/2013 07:19:42 PM 1074 Views
I am not gonna lie - 24/04/2013 08:24:57 AM 1060 Views
No, and definitely not with this group - 24/04/2013 10:26:03 AM 1135 Views
What's the problem, technically? - 24/04/2013 07:24:22 PM 1039 Views
Basically? Mass and redundancy - 24/04/2013 10:40:30 PM 1048 Views
The mass is what I wondered about. - 24/04/2013 11:03:36 PM 1004 Views
Fuel costs are linear to mass, total costs are probably less - 25/04/2013 12:20:55 AM 944 Views
To put this in perspective, adding to Issac's points - 25/04/2013 01:50:38 AM 1002 Views
That's not really a fair comparison. - 25/04/2013 08:18:35 PM 1017 Views
Re: That's not really a fair comparison. - 26/04/2013 02:22:18 AM 918 Views
Re: That's not really a fair comparison. - 26/04/2013 08:58:45 PM 1146 Views
I agree with your points, but you've still only listed financial (not technical) problems. - 25/04/2013 08:22:25 PM 1051 Views
Finacial problems are technical problems - 25/04/2013 10:19:17 PM 971 Views
Maybe we just have different definitions. - 26/04/2013 09:25:33 PM 1079 Views
Re: Maybe we just have different definitions. - 26/04/2013 10:54:11 PM 974 Views
So, suppose someone put you in charge. - 27/04/2013 02:14:44 AM 994 Views
Well that would be a bad idea, but... - 27/04/2013 03:29:47 PM 1127 Views
Ask me when I am 60, I adored the Mar Trilogy though *NM* - 24/04/2013 12:54:58 PM 571 Views
It's all about prospects and hard work. - 24/04/2013 03:16:56 PM 1173 Views
I wouldn't go like that. - 24/04/2013 05:15:09 PM 1022 Views
No, but I wouldn't mind sending a few people there - 25/04/2013 01:52:56 AM 1021 Views
Not with that. - 25/04/2013 07:32:40 PM 961 Views
Probably. - 26/04/2013 10:02:58 PM 909 Views
This is by far the most elaborate form of suicide ever proposed. - 10/08/2013 08:04:43 AM 1700 Views

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