Posted on 02/12/2014 1:44:14 PM PST by lbryce
Three Mars One applicants that made it to the second round. From left, Max Fagin, Brian Hinson and Andrew Rader.
If you were to find yourself on the Red Planet, what would you do when you get there? Those who made the second round of the Mars One mission (which aims to establish a colony on Mars in the next decade) are a step closer to answering that question. In interviews with Universe Today, applicants Andrew Rader, Max Fagin and Brian Hinson explained what they’ll do if they embark on a planned one-way trip to the Red Planet.
It’s impossible in three interviews to capture the diversity of more than 1,000 second-round applicants, so we encourage you to head over to Mars One’s website to browse the full list of people. As for these three would-be Marstronauts, we have their application videos and their plans for Mars exploration below the jump.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
Now, picture this. In this newfangled age of space travel where the objective, destination is many times more dangerous, hazardous, untested, technologically as well as crew capability by a factor of multiple unknowns, the money scarcer than water on Mars, they've got this plan to finance a trip to Mars by selling the promotional rights by saving money on the confetti when no returnee ticker-tape parade is part of the budget. Certainly these sign-up volunteer guys have neither the cowboy bravado, the Hollywood star quality, the expertise, even the knowledge whether they could even manage to being together more than a weekend or so without a problem. I don't much about the technology, the training. What I do know from the tests going on at the Space Station is that Man can not withstand long terms in space without serious consequences on their capacity to perform either mentally or physically.
Even knowing you won't ever be coming back, you at least want the payoff of spending a few months on Mars to make it worthwhile. And even that happening, surviving, what is it? a six month trip, landing is always tricky, then finding yourself in some deserted desert town, and after the excitement dies down having covered the maximum circle of distance, reality sets in, and that's if everything holds up technologically as well as socially. Man is not destined to thrive in low Earth gravity, Mars only one sixth of Earth. Muscles atrophy even with 10 hours of vigorous exercise a day, blood chemistry changes, white blood cells go way high. And that's all only if everyone stays relatively healthy eating the canned spam and drinking water recycled from your urine. You know what? Count me out and let these suicidal Marstronauts get what they deserve.
Your post was good, BTW.
I second that emotion! said Smokey Robinson.
Send Congress.
Where’s Curley Bill Brocious?
While I was deployed to Italy, I used to read the message board from JPL and, aside from a rather lengthy discussion amongst the 50-pound head guys on the issues of buttered bread landing butter side down (that evolved into one buttering a cat and a hairless one at that to reduce friction and eventually solve perpetual motion) their two primary stopping blocks were gravity and the atrophy problem the lack of it caused, and shielding against cosmic radiation.
The human body is not meant to live in a gravity-free environment and long missions have proven this repeatedly. The worst is cosmic radiation. It destroys DNA.
Thank you very much. Your kind words make it all worthwhile.
Mother, Kids Hope Dad Won’t Leave Them Forever for Permanent Mars Mission
The radiation exposure while traveling to Mars definitely impacts the trip. But rather surprisingly, they’ve discovered that radiation on Mars itself has for some inexplicable scientific mystery proven to be within safe exposure guidelines.
Send Obama, his Cabinet, V. Jarrett, Clintons and ALL progressives.
is Senator Waxman on the waiting list?
Currently, I am a helicopter air-medevac pilot and so I do well multitasking and work well under pressure,” his applicant description on Mars One’s website reads. “My history includes college degree, farm/ranch background, emergency medicine, aircraft mechanic/engineer, and ability to deal with hostile environments (Iraq & ex-wife!!)”.
He seems to be the sort of Captain Kirk-like character that would go along way to make Mars One the success they will never attain.
I didn’t know Capt. Kirk was married and had three children.
I was referring to his half-brother Captain Chauncey “Coyote”
Kirk of the USS SeerSucker.
Send ‘em as soon as possible. Take some more with them. Maybe send a free ticket to the Obama klan.
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