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Old 06-19-2007, 02:29 PM   #1
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...imulation.html

only 520 days of isolation, crappy food, and hard work.... sounds like fun to me.
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Old 06-19-2007, 02:31 PM   #2
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Old 06-19-2007, 02:34 PM   #3
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People with mental disorders, special diets, those considered too fat or too thin, or currently in jail need not apply.
Well, that excludes about 80% of CPers right there. Add in the "no addictions" part, and I think that eliminates just about all of us.
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Old 06-19-2007, 02:35 PM   #4
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Damn I'm to tall... and I really wanted to go to a fake mars too.
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Old 06-19-2007, 02:39 PM   #5
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Even Mars is non smoking #%$& sakes!
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I can't afford to go, I heard Cohaagen raised the price of air again.
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Old 06-19-2007, 04:13 PM   #7
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I can't afford to go, I heard Cohaagen raised the price of air again.
Maybe it'll be okay if we can find someone slutty and demure to help us turn on the reactor.
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Old 06-19-2007, 04:16 PM   #8
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There was an interesting piece about colonizing the galaxy a few days ago on /. as well

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...ier_redux.html
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Old 06-19-2007, 05:02 PM   #9
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Well, that excludes about 80% of CPers right there. Add in the "no addictions" part, and I think that eliminates just about all of us.
And to think I had my bags packed and ready to go
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Old 06-19-2007, 07:47 PM   #10
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"The 520-day experiment involves a crew of six living in sealed modules at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow."

That's as far as I got. The last thing I want to have to deal with is Moscow's biological problems. Five will get you ten it's just a ruse for testing biological warfare agents anyway.
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