Posted on 04/06/2014 3:18:26 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
Title is the subject, link is to the results. Go to slashdot.org if you want to take the poll, it changes every day, but the results should hang around alot longer than the poll.
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Only Democrats in office....
“Pardner, there comes a time when the party of the first part has no recourse but to knock some sense into the party of the second part!”
What if it’s a private enterprise?
Though still young, in good shape, I am starting to get older. I have no wife, and no kids, and at this point its pretty much written in stone that I will never have either. I have otherwise been successful, but after 25 years in engineering I would very much like to help start up a whole freakin’ planet. What an opportunity to help start a whole new chapter for humanity. So, yes, I would definitely do a one way trip to Mars. Even if the mission ended in tragedy, it would be worth it just for the exploration value alone.
At least they knew there was a high probability of there being adequate air to breath at the end of their journey.
Geehawd for Martians!
Plus people can see things easily, that a machine could never notice.
Didn’t President Obama convert our NASA into some sort of “self-esteem therapy” service for the rest of the world’s Moslems? How better to elevate their self-esteem than to send them up into outer space? (....all the violent terrorist ones and their supporters...)
They can shout Alluh Akbar all the way to Uranus...
Problem Solved.
Terraform what? The average temperature up there is about -30 celcius. That’s the average, who wants to live in that?
Live is a one way trip.
Until we can produce a magnetic field to encompass mars I think all habitability will be under cover on mars for at least a couple hundred years. Its certainly far more hospitable than the moon. Its not a hard vacuum like the moon and there is at least some protection from solar radiation. The nights aren’t two weeks long.
I’d like to put a dome over one of those arena sized craters and experiment with producing an atmosphere, growing plants etc.
Life is a one way trip.
Seesh, talk about talking the wind out of what I think is a good point.
Let’s volunteer “Abbas”:
(short excerpt from a web article follows:)
Need more examples of Abbas’ death cult and anti-Semitic terrorism?
December 2012: Abbas honors 6 terrorists responsible for killing hundreds of Israelis and two American diplomats.
January 2013: Abbas pledges to “follow the path” of 15 terrorists responsible for killing hundreds of Jews.
March 2013: Abbas honors the murderer of 2 students.
April 2013: Abbas honors the planner of attacks that killed dozens.
May 2013: Abbas refuses to condemn his advisor who glorified a murderer, as requested by members of US Congress.
Last April, “President” Abbas receives the coffins of 91 terrorists who murdered more than 200 Jews and salutes them with wreaths and the firing of volleys of shots.
Mahmoud Abbas, who in his doctoral dissertation at Moscow Oriental College denied that gas chambers were used to murder Jews, who aims to expel and/or kill 600,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria, is like the piper in the famous Hamelin fairy tale. The real rats are the subhuman Muslim terrorists who have put his hatred into practice.
Interesting question, the military is expected to send men to fairly certain deaths, but a voluntary trip with the expectation that it is just moving to a new world, seems ethical enough, if closely screened for.
No.
Traveling to a land of incredible natural resources is quite a bit different from a suicide mission.
If NASA would take me, I’d be more than willing to do a one-way trip to Mars. To be part of the first group of humans to set foot on another planet would be more than worth the rest of my life.
In the case of Mars, terraforming probably begins by generating enormous amounts of perfluorocarbons. They are extremely simple but potent “super” greenhouse gases that can be manufactured directly from the Martian regolith. They also have an exceedingly long lifespan.
“There are many positive qualities to PFCs. They are 100% environmentally safe, since they are chlorine-free and do not contain any toxins. Also, PFCs are easy to make. They can be produced using simple molecules of carbon, sulfur, and fluorine which are all abundant on Mars.
“if Mars’s atmosphere contained just a few parts per million of the super-greenhouse gases, the average temperature at the planet’s surface would rise from -60 to -40 degrees Celsius (-76 to -40 degrees Fahrenheit). This warming could be enough to trigger the release of carbon dioxide from the polar caps and soil into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide would then augment the greenhouse effect even further, driving the release of more carbon dioxide and water vapor into the atmosphere. Such positive feedback would be sufficient to create a thick, warm atmosphere—the carbon dioxide Mars.”
I’d go.
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