You can be first person on Mars -- if you agree to not come back

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by Caged Great

Mars warmest weather is basically like Edmonton. Gets up to 10 above during the summer and drops to 40-50 below in the winter.

Being able to jump hundreds of feet in the air, and visit the city of Helium negate that downside, though.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by KTrain

From what I've heard they have no shortage of people that want to go. The problem is getting qualified people that want to go.

To this point, what happens when one of them snaps?

I mean the first pod will have four people. Who have to live there for a very long time. Everything is being recorded. How long is it till someone gets an extreme bout of cabin fever, decides to proclaim his or herself God, kills everyone else, and basically ruins the mission and any new settlements to the project? Especially because they HAVE cameras to declare there ideas to.

[edn88]

Mars seems a little barren for my tastes - I would want a planet that at least had some vegitation and didn't require lifesupport to live on (even something like Pandora where the vegitation is lethal). I suppose if there was a planet worth colonizing, you would have a billion people lined up for the chance to go.

[Nehkara]

Mars-One Secures Initial Sponsorship Funding

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"Mars One is not just a daring project, but the core of what drives human spirit towards exploration of the unknown. We are privileged to be a supporter of this incredible project," said Dan Petrovic, general director of Dejan SEO.

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

I'd bet anything that if this ever got some legs and it looked like they might land on Mars before NASA, NASA would do whatever it could to get there first (and they probably would, too).

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

I'd bet anything that if this ever got some legs and it looked like they might land on Mars before NASA, NASA would do whatever it could to get there first (and they probably would, too).

Yup.

This is what I'm hoping. That the US/NASA is challenged in their dominance of planetary exploration (by Mars-One, China, Japan, whoever) and decide they want to be there first.

[BloodFetish]

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola

Assuming 6000000000 earthly inhabitants, we would require 9,375,000 mi² for each to inhabit 1 acre. Texas is 268,820 mi². The entire US is 3,794,100 mi². NA is 9,540,198 mi².

Sooooo....

A 35-story Texas-sized condo development oughtta cover it then.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Nehkara

Yup.

This is what I'm hoping. That the US/NASA is challenged in their dominance of planetary exploration (by Mars-One, China, Japan, whoever) and decide they want to be there first.

once another nation is close enough to putting a human on Mars before NASA, i'd wager you'd see every American politician giving money to NASA hand over fist. if it's an American company however, i'm not sure you'd get that kind of support though