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I know. It really perplexes me that so many people are so down on it. Dannymac Send a noteboard - 24/04/2013 07:19:42 PM

Maybe we're just in an extremely pessimistic place, culturally, but what I have found here, on facebook, and elsewhere is a whole lot of "meh." Getting to Mars has been in our reach for decades, the problem has been getting there and getting back, and so this proposal overcomes the last remaining hurdle by simply removing it.

Then again, that reaction is part of what keeps this in my mind. What they are looking for aren't the experts, but reasonably intelligent people who can learn the needed skills, and have the people skills themselves to survive with a small group of other people in an isolated environment. I think I would qualify. I wouldn't be doing this to leave Earth... I would be doing it to FREAKING GO TO MARS!

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If you could, would you move permanently to Mars? - 24/04/2013 03:30:55 AM 1645 Views
You want to go where? *NM* - 24/04/2013 06:29:07 AM 499 Views
Have you read the 'Mars' trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson? - 24/04/2013 06:37:26 AM 1073 Views
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"Digital Descendants" - 25/04/2013 09:30:54 PM 986 Views
I think it's incredible that such a thing is even being attempted - 24/04/2013 08:13:16 AM 1063 Views
I know. It really perplexes me that so many people are so down on it. - 24/04/2013 07:19:42 PM 1008 Views
I am not gonna lie - 24/04/2013 08:24:57 AM 1000 Views
No, and definitely not with this group - 24/04/2013 10:26:03 AM 1077 Views
What's the problem, technically? - 24/04/2013 07:24:22 PM 978 Views
Basically? Mass and redundancy - 24/04/2013 10:40:30 PM 942 Views
The mass is what I wondered about. - 24/04/2013 11:03:36 PM 939 Views
Fuel costs are linear to mass, total costs are probably less - 25/04/2013 12:20:55 AM 883 Views
To put this in perspective, adding to Issac's points - 25/04/2013 01:50:38 AM 938 Views
That's not really a fair comparison. - 25/04/2013 08:18:35 PM 958 Views
Re: That's not really a fair comparison. - 26/04/2013 02:22:18 AM 865 Views
Re: That's not really a fair comparison. - 26/04/2013 08:58:45 PM 1073 Views
I agree with your points, but you've still only listed financial (not technical) problems. - 25/04/2013 08:22:25 PM 981 Views
Finacial problems are technical problems - 25/04/2013 10:19:17 PM 909 Views
Maybe we just have different definitions. - 26/04/2013 09:25:33 PM 1010 Views
Re: Maybe we just have different definitions. - 26/04/2013 10:54:11 PM 906 Views
So, suppose someone put you in charge. - 27/04/2013 02:14:44 AM 941 Views
Well that would be a bad idea, but... - 27/04/2013 03:29:47 PM 1057 Views
Ask me when I am 60, I adored the Mar Trilogy though *NM* - 24/04/2013 12:54:58 PM 543 Views
It's all about prospects and hard work. - 24/04/2013 03:16:56 PM 1121 Views
I wouldn't go like that. - 24/04/2013 05:15:09 PM 961 Views
No, but I wouldn't mind sending a few people there - 25/04/2013 01:52:56 AM 951 Views
Not with that. - 25/04/2013 07:32:40 PM 902 Views
Probably. - 26/04/2013 10:02:58 PM 848 Views
This is by far the most elaborate form of suicide ever proposed. - 10/08/2013 08:04:43 AM 1622 Views

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