Mars... a big step for womankind?

Telegraph ^ | 1/21/04 | Telegraph

[Az Joe]

My guess would be that a crew of 1 man and say, 3-5 women would be ideal.

In the interest of science and mankind I humbly volunteer.

[Leroy S. Mort]

The proposed expedition will require humans to spend longer in close proximity with each other in a confined capsule than ever before. Some psychologists believe an all-female crew would be best suited to such a mission.

I say sell the whole idea to TV and have 'em fund it and produce it as "Survivor - Mars". Each week of the trip HAL picks a loser to shoot out the photon torpedo tube.

[martin_fierro]

NO NO NO

MEN are from Mars.

WOMEN are from Venus.

[1066AD]

My guess would be that a crew of 1 man and say, 3-5 women would be ideal.
About the same ratio as Dr Strangelove proposed for his post-apocalyptic "mineshaft" colonies !

[martin_fierro]

[blaster88]

So how do those all male submarines work?

[weegee]

Did they consider there would be zero gravity pillowfights on the voyage to Mars?

[RightWhale]

fist fights - one over a chess game

Looks like chess is out.

[weegee]

"I, like, wanna go to Mars because I hear that 'men' are from Mars..."

[Doc On The Bay]

AW, C'MON!!!--- Are we doing "Amazon Women from Mars again??

Doc

[weegee]

The solution is we will send wimpy girly-men and robots to Mars.

[Dog Gone]

Somehow submarine crews seem to survive similar conditions.

But somehow I think the proposition that women get along better together flies in the face of every catfight I've seen.

[xJones]

Even at its closest approach to Earth, every couple of years, the red planet is at least 35 million miles away. It takes roughly six months to get to Mars and once there, the explorers will need to wait 550 days for the orbits on Earth and Mars to allow an easy trip home.

Don't forget to bring the trail mix, and this could make a good "National Lampoon's Martian Vacation".

Yes, there is the allure of space, but this isn't like Christopher Columbus setting sail for the New World. It's strictly BYOOS (bring your own oxygen supply) on Mars, not to mention water, food, life support systems.....

It's a cool idea on paper, and I wouldn't mind at all getting to choose who gets sent.:)

[ambrose]

[Dog Gone]

That's the one! I don't think I had the Apple series, but it's somewhere in the attic.

You just can't throw away the Leather Goddesses!

[longtermmemmory]

mars needs women...



"Stranger in a strange land" had three married couples.
combining both goals. Marriage to mars!

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

"Stranger in a strange land" had three married couples.
combining both goals. Marriage to mars!
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Yeah. And they killed each other and crashed, leaving one survivor, Valentine Michael Smith.

It took an all male ship to make the trip the next time, and snag him and bring him home so that he could then sleep with every female character in the book. Just like every other late (post-1962-stroke) Heinlein lead character. Gah.

[longtermmemmory]

wow that is old. Too bad that was never updated.