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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 1606 Views
You want to go where? *NM* - 24/04/2013 06:29:07 AM 482 Views
Have you read the 'Mars' trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson? - 24/04/2013 06:37:26 AM 1035 Views
Well, I'll look into it. - 24/04/2013 07:13:05 PM 932 Views
"Digital Descendants" - 25/04/2013 09:30:54 PM 946 Views
I think it's incredible that such a thing is even being attempted - 24/04/2013 08:13:16 AM 1024 Views
I know. It really perplexes me that so many people are so down on it. - 24/04/2013 07:19:42 PM 965 Views
I am not gonna lie - 24/04/2013 08:24:57 AM 970 Views
No, and definitely not with this group - 24/04/2013 10:26:03 AM 1033 Views
What's the problem, technically? - 24/04/2013 07:24:22 PM 936 Views
Basically? Mass and redundancy - 24/04/2013 10:40:30 PM 860 Views
The mass is what I wondered about. - 24/04/2013 11:03:36 PM 901 Views
Fuel costs are linear to mass, total costs are probably less - 25/04/2013 12:20:55 AM 848 Views
To put this in perspective, adding to Issac's points - 25/04/2013 01:50:38 AM 907 Views
That's not really a fair comparison. - 25/04/2013 08:18:35 PM 871 Views
Re: That's not really a fair comparison. - 26/04/2013 02:22:18 AM 825 Views
Re: That's not really a fair comparison. - 26/04/2013 08:58:45 PM 985 Views
I agree with your points, but you've still only listed financial (not technical) problems. - 25/04/2013 08:22:25 PM 891 Views
Finacial problems are technical problems - 25/04/2013 10:19:17 PM 870 Views
Maybe we just have different definitions. - 26/04/2013 09:25:33 PM 918 Views
Re: Maybe we just have different definitions. - 26/04/2013 10:54:11 PM 879 Views
So, suppose someone put you in charge. - 27/04/2013 02:14:44 AM 908 Views
Well that would be a bad idea, but... - 27/04/2013 03:29:47 PM 1020 Views
Ask me when I am 60, I adored the Mar Trilogy though *NM* - 24/04/2013 12:54:58 PM 525 Views
It's all about prospects and hard work. - 24/04/2013 03:16:56 PM 1027 Views
I wouldn't go like that. - 24/04/2013 05:15:09 PM 918 Views
No, but I wouldn't mind sending a few people there - 25/04/2013 01:52:56 AM 914 Views
Not with that. - 25/04/2013 07:32:40 PM 868 Views
Probably. - 26/04/2013 10:02:58 PM 814 Views
This is by far the most elaborate form of suicide ever proposed. - 10/08/2013 08:04:43 AM 1585 Views

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