Blir Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18506033 So some Dutch entrepreneur wants to create a reality TV show where a crew of astronauts live on a Mars colony... until they die. Apparently they expect millions of applicants for a 10 year regime to prepare them for their one way ticket to Mars. I think it won't REALLY happen but I have to admit I want it to. If we want to visit Mars we have to anticipate people dying for the cause and a human settlement there in 11 years is an exciting prospect to me. But I love all this space colonization shit. Plus it'd be one reality TV show I'd definitely watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schlucharski Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 reminds me of 'running man'. so they're not planing to bring them back from mars, forget it, no government/ moral instances is going to allow this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 the show should obviously be called 'Get Your Ass to Mars' Arnold can host the show while wearing a turban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th555 Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Why not, schlusarski? They'd still live, just somewhere else. But I don't really get why you'd just say goodbye to your earthly life to visit a place that's literally just a huge heap of rock. At least the earth's got nature on it, and humanity. Living on mars would be like living in a space station, but, well, on mars. On the other hand it'd be a nice first step to actually prepare that piece of rock for further colonization. Can anyone point me to a good text on why you would actually want to colonize mars? It still seems easier to me to just recolonize the earth, should it ever be necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GatorGreen Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 [E]ven if, at some future date, emigration to Mars should become feasible, even if any considerable number of men and women were desperate enough to choose a new life under conditions comparable to those prevailing on a mountain twice as high as Mount Everest, what difference would that make? In the course of the last four centuries quite a number of people sailed from the Old World to the New. But neither their departure nor the returning flow of food and raw materials could solve the problems of the Old World. Similarly the shipping of a few surplus humans to Mars (at a cost, for transportation and development, of several million dollars a head) will do nothing to solve the problem of mounting population pressures on our own planet. But I have to admit that it would be terribly interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
data Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 http://forum.watmm.com/topic/74176-mars-one/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 Oh shit. I was so far behind the jazz band haven't even turned up yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Can anyone point me to a good text on why you would actually want to colonize mars? It still seems easier to me to just recolonize the earth, should it ever be necessary. How exactly would you "recolonize" the Earth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th555 Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 In the same way you would colonize mars, but without the fancy space travel thing. Assuming there's still a fair amount of people and technicians left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 In the same way you would colonize mars, but without the fancy space travel thing. Assuming there's still a fair amount of people and technicians left. Do you mean to move people around on Earth to uninhabited places? I don't think that would help population and resource problems at all, it would be like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Colonization to other planets is needed since we are currently living well over our means here on Earth and that's not going to last long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 two weeks........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirch Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 amazing! i'd watch it... sounds like a good idea. but weird tho... instead of evictions people actually die! ? lol but it'd be interesting, no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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