
Aliblahba said:Tuthmosis said:Look at it this way: no sausage fests or iPhones (or condoms) on Mars! How many forum members can claim a Mars flag?
Man I can't stand to be in a car more than 3 hours with a chick. 6 months to Mars? They'll be some dead bitches floating out in space.
I've fucked some blondes that were real space cadets. Does that count as a Mars flag? :tongue:

SteveMcMahon said:Zaskia:
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Self Introduction
Hello, my name is zaskia, 20 years old student. I was born in santa cruz Bolivia but I’m studying in the UK right now. I’m doing International Relations and anthropology.![]()
Good luck using your International Relations and anthropology degrees in the event of a CO2 spike in the Hab module.
Interests
I like metal music, although I listen to every kind of music as well. I am spiritual.
A huge fan of cultures. Always looking for something new. I’d love to go to mars for life.
Experience and learning are my goals in life so this would be fulfilling in every way.
Blick Mang said:Are you kidding me? She put on like 30 pounds after her entrance video was accepted.
Women can't even apply to live on a different planet without treating the situation like an LTR
Quintus Curtius said:And that's just for starters. Once people start breeding on Mars, they will eventually evolve into a different species, given enough generations.
Blick Mang said:Are you kidding me? She put on like 30 pounds after her entrance video was accepted.
Women can't even apply to live on a different planet without treating the situation like an LTR
philosophical_recovery said:I'd prefer it if resource gathering and expansion were mostly automated, such that there would only need to be one man per 5-10 women.
Paracelsus said:philosophical_recovery said:I'd prefer it if resource gathering and expansion were mostly automated, such that there would only need to be one man per 5-10 women.
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BortimusPrime said:It's hard to even imagine the degree to which this would be hell.
For starters, there will be practically no space available for anything. It's unlikely they'll have the equipment necessary to dig out a decently-sized cave to live in, so everyone is stuck in little metal cans covered with dirt to block the radiation that isn't being deflected because Mars lacks a magnetic field. Even if you go outside, you're still trapped inside a pressurized space suit. Trapped for the rest of your life.
The funding for resupply ships is supposed to come out of revenue from videotaping the astronauts as a reality show apparently, so along with the lack of privacy if people lose interest they're dead.
Also, no internet, or even if there is any communications have an inherent latency of 5-25 minutes due to the speed of light. And there isn't anything on Mars either, just rocks and dust. A geologist might stay entertained with research for a few years, but that's it.
People likening this to explorers sailing to the new world need to remember that at least once those explorers got off the boat, there was air to breathe, food to eat, brown men with inferior technology to massacre for entertainment, and brown women to fuck. Not only that, as long as their ship didn't sink they could always sail back to Europe.
If this expedition actually happens, then my bet is it'll end up like Event Horizon, except with the crew going insane from claustrophobia instead of having a warp drive the opens a portal to hell.
MIT, though, says it won't work, unless, of course, the idea is to present a very macabre television series to the public. To start with, colonists will not get ready supplies sent to them, so they'll need to live on the resources provided at the beginning of their journey and what's available on Mars. This means that they'll have to plant food, but plants give off a lot of oxygen. Too much oxygen inside a single unit might result in explosion. And there is no current technology for venting oxygen, without also venting nitrogen. But the colonists need the nitrogen for pressurizing the pods.
This means that the colonists' air will eventually thin out and they'll suffocate. MIT estimates the first human on Mars will die in 68 days.
However, that's not the only hazard with the Mars One plan. Colonists will also starve because the current Mars One mission information does not account for enough calories to feed everyone sufficiently. There's also a chance of dehydration, for the same reason, along with carbon dioxide poisoning and death by incineration after a major oxygen-boosted explosion.
The Mars One plan involves sending four colonists first, and then shuttling more groups later. MIT's paper points out that this will cause even more problems, because more colonists means more demand on resources, such as food. This will also cause more wear-and-tear on equipment. This also means that the project will easily cost at least tens of billions of dollars, and, unfortunately, Mars One doesn't have that much source of income.