Posted on 03/17/2013 9:20:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Mars One co-founder tells CBC about its proposed one-way trip to the Red Planet
Mars One hopes to have people living on the planet for the rest of their lives by 2023.(Mars One/YouTube)
The man behind the private space project dubbed Mars One is looking for people to travel to Mars, but he's not offering a return ticket.
"The technology to get humans to Mars and keep them alive there exists," Bas Lansdorp told Day 6 host Brent Bambury in an interview that aired this week on CBC Radio.
"The technology to bring humans from Mars back to Earth simply does not exist yet."
Lansdorp said he's looking for people who are utterly dependable, good in groups and "at their best when things are at their worst."
The never-to-return explorers will require eight years of training, and the search starts this year.
The flight is scheduled to leave in Sept. 2022.
To hear the complete conversation, including how Lansdorp plans to fund the trip, click the audio button above.
I can’t figure out what they would actually do there other than stare at rocks.
(Ducking the incoming Zot!)
Yes, Vint Cerf, one of the real founders of the Internet helped the JPL design IP Addresses for the Solar System as part of the Interplanetary Internet. Some Internet protocols have been in use since the late 1990's.
I think your “volunteer” is from the school of thought that says if we put too many people on mars, it might tip over and fall out of orbit.
Like Guam.
But bigger.
I saw a movie once about WWII prisoners trying to escape a castle prison. Some tried crawling through a sewer pipe that was so tight they could barely inch forward, let alone back themselves up if they came to a grate or a dead end or a tight corner. They didn’t even know if it would lead them to freedom. It was just a chance that it might. To me, this Mars mission is even more insane than starting down that pipe.
Hard labor. That's my guess. They're not going to pay people to lay around. You're going to be outside in the cosmic rays, doing construction work, which I'm sure is the reason they wouldn't have me. How hard can you work when you're 84? Not very. They'd love you at 50, though. But I think that's a little too young. Life expectancy isn't going to be that great, a few years, what with constant radiation exposure, work hazards and rudimentary medical care. Well, that's just my guess, but I wouldn't go at 50.
Not fair! The dirty old men would get all the women!
Go to L.A. and make some gang signs. Pretty soon you'll be done and unlike going to Mars, there's no need to wear that funny suit.
Yep, lots of similarities.
I think do science and build infrastructure for people who would be arriving later.
In Mars Greavity youwould still bench press 250 and feel like Superman.
I recently read Ben Bova’s “Mars”. I wonder how accurate the science was given all the new knowledge. At least it was a lot closer than Bradbury.
Few would want to leave Earth forever.
“Most settlers in human history have known they were going on a one way trip. At least these people will be able to communicate with their loved ones by videochat.”
An excellent post. I did not read the article, but I’m guessing these explorers would be sent supplies, etc. for the duration? It would seem pretty pointless to send them up with enough supplies and air for 72 hours and a “so what is it like up there?”
“How would they pay us?”
I imagine many folks that are killing themselves due to lost jobs, etc. would love to go to Mars and have a bunch of money paid to their families each month.
Although it did say they want folks that can battle through the struggles, so.....
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