Would you go to Mars if you knew you would never be able to come back to Earth?

[cyb]

I'm only going if Candice Swanepoel is the Queen of the Deep Underground Martian cave system and I'm her Secret 'Personal Assistant'.
(and Mimosa Seeds are the Planetary currency.)

No pressure...

 

[nexusdisciple]

I wouldn't volunteer to be one of the first pioneers, but assuming that an amount of the planet was terraformed and was able to support life with basic luxuries (running water, electricity, plumbing) I would be down to fly out there and help establish our first city.

 

[ymer]

No thanks, this place is extremely good for me.

 

[Cognitive Heart]

No, not at all. This is where I stay to preserve, protect and embrace life. Those who are encouraged to do such a voyage should consider psychedelics and their role in our global situation. People will choose for themselves, but they must also be aware that basic plant chemistry, that grows here on this planet, can take you far beyond Mars.

:thumb_up:

 

[bluesky]

I have been fascinated by space since I was a child but I would not want to go to mars for life. Being forced to live in a small building and almost always be indoors would likely make me crazy in a few months.

 

[anrchy]

Nope. I think the idea of visiting other planets is awesome but going to one that doesn't already support our life requirements sounds like prison to me.

Now if there were another planet just like earth I would totally go and live there for awhile at least. The ultimate move! Imagine living on a healthy planet before humans have caused any damage at all. So primitive feeling! Then fight to keep it that way.

 

[un-known-ome]

So, I know that the OP is referring to the Mars One Project, which is currently accepting or at least has accepted thousands of applications for civilians to go on the first manned voyage to Mars. A clause in the "contract" says that you cannot expect to return fro Mars once you are there. Right.............

For the OP, the Mars One Project is the biggest pile of steaming feces that any billionaire entrepreneur has ever dreamt up. Purely by my skills of deductive reasoning, I know that it is a bunch of nonsense, will not get off the ground, and is a scam--a fairly elaborate scam. If you were hedging your bets on going, I'm sorry to break it to you like this.

To answer your question, however, no. No I would not go to Mars. **** that.

 

[Anodyne]

Only if Kim Stanley Robinson gets to run the place, he seems to have put some thought into it... :d

 

[hug46]

To answer your question, however, no. No I would not go to Mars. **** that.

Would you change your mind if they had decent TV there?

 

[Orion]

No.

As soon as the novelty wears off you are bored as hell on a red rock in harsh conditions. It would suck. There's nothing living there for a reason.

 

[DoingKermit]

Nope. I love Earth waaaay too much!

 

[un-known-ome]

To answer your question, however, no. No I would not go to Mars. **** that.

Would you change your mind if they had decent TV there?

Are you referring to the Mars reality TV show that has been suggested? Yes. I am serious.

The Mars One initiative plans to have the first settlement on Mars in 2023. You read that correctly. 2023, even though they haven't even started working on it. But WAIT! There's more. They will broadcast a Mars Reality TV show once the colony is established. And what's even more, is that some earthlings have bought into this hook, line, and sinker. Never mind that the technology doesn't exist, and that Mars One doesn't have a fraction of the funding that they need. Never mind all that...nonsense. We're going to Mars!!!!!

You know what, I've changed my mind. I've now officially given up on humanity. I do want to go to Mars. Send me there alone, preferably, on a one way trip. My bags are packed.

 

[Jarppi]

Give me a bio-dome kind of a setup (sans Pauly Shore please) with enough seeds and livestock for both food and recreation, highspeed internet and a few suicide girls for company and I'll sign the papers right now.

 

[hardboiled]

Hell yeah! If i was my own clone i would!:!: Plus 7 virgins for each day in a week to keep be grounded. :twisted:

 

[muladharma]

Tripping out in nature wouldnt be the same without a forest and animals around. Plus it'd be trickier sourcing and growing all of the plants I want to grow on Mars. I'd like to check it out and all, but I dont think a Martian desert is the place I'd want to spend the rest of my life.

First thing I think about is the well-being of my DNA-possessing relatives, like animals.
I might go without returning if their well-being was guaranteed, I'd stay to help make it guaranteed otherwise.

 

[sbios]

We can still save the Earth environment if we put as much efforts in. That being said, life on Earth is still far better than Mars for at least hundreds of years (if we wake up to the dire situations we're in now).

 

[dragonrider]

Theoretically i think you could reproduce the mars experience in your backyard if you have enough gravel like they use in tenniscourts.

 

[antares]

I certainly would if I didn't have a wife and kids. It would be the ultimate hermit's retreat. Somewhere to look deeply inwards without distraction.

 

[Jees]

I certainly would if I didn't have a wife and kids. It would be the ultimate hermit's retreat. Somewhere to look deeply inwards without distraction.

One can start with vision quests or similar, periods of being alone with no distractions from the regular world. No rocket needed to get something going. Some organisations offer incentives you can subscribe to.
One example: https://fuegosagrado.eu/visionquest

...The fasting, abstaining from drinking and eating for a time, keep the silence, the opportunity to meditate in order to amplify our senses in order to receive instructions that we are looking for, the ‘isolation or loneliness looking to get into intimate contact with nature, are all practices that human beings have perpetuated since the ancient times.

I've spoken people who did it this way several times, and they consider the vision quests a pinnacle of their spiritual path, to be repeated and increased in duration. On an almost equal place of importance: singing (e.g. icaro's)

 

[AikyO]

I don't. As it appears to me I am simply an extension of the Earth, going to another planet would be like ripping my body of its veins. Now that is not a very pleasant thing, surely.

'think by rivers side will suit me just well, things tend to change rather constantly down there.