I love blueberries! Strawberries... meh?
Let's just say Book wouldn't have been able to secure passage on *my* ship...
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That's not really a thing, is it? Hell, we can't even get back to the MOON...
I'd be surprised if we get to Mars by 2120, let alone 2020.
It’s been 207 years. I think we’re over it...
Oh, don't mistake my meaning, I didn't actually get an attitude from anyone there! I just felt a bit guilty, that's all. Maybe I was supposed to.
We will as soon as we can make money out of it, which surprisingly may happen in the next decade or so. The Solar winds (from whom we are shielded on Earth) create pockets of He3 on the Moon, which could become a very valuable commodity. I think they'll use robots though, which are much cheaper than people who need to breathe, drink, and eat, plus they don't work while they sleep. Robots are the future in space.That's not really a thing, is it? Hell, we can't even get back to the MOON...
Well, you could be surprised then because it seems feasible in the next 10 to 20 years. People have already invested tons of money into it.
The trouble with Mars as I understand isn’t so much getting there as getting there without too much radiation exposure and muscle atrophy.
I managed to pull a loophole to qualify for a sports event.
To give some background, there are two Obstacle Racing events, North American Championships and World Championships. To qualify for the age group wave you have to finish in the top 20 of your age group at certain events. But I haven’t been doing a lot of OCR this year because I’m training for a triathlon. I did one OCR this year hoping to use it to qualify. But, at that event it just happened to be my specific age group was disproportionately stacked compared to usual. So I didn’t qualify.
Now, the qualifying period is one year. So NORAM’s period is August-August and OCRWC’s is October-October. I had a qualifying event last September. So it qualified for one and not the other. But, since the Ironman I’m training for was on the same day as NORAM and I couldn’t make it I was able to invoke the rule about deferring qualification to apply the September result to OCRWC. Horray for loopholes!
To give some background, there are two Obstacle Racing events, North American Championships and World Championships. To qualify for the age group wave you have to finish in the top 20 of your age group at certain events. But I haven’t been doing a lot of OCR this year because I’m training for a triathlon. I did one OCR this year hoping to use it to qualify. But, at that event it just happened to be my specific age group was disproportionately stacked compared to usual. So I didn’t qualify.
Now, the qualifying period is one year. So NORAM’s period is August-August and OCRWC’s is October-October. I had a qualifying event last September. So it qualified for one and not the other. But, since the Ironman I’m training for was on the same day as NORAM and I couldn’t make it I was able to invoke the rule about deferring qualification to apply the September result to OCRWC. Horray for loopholes!
Plus, it would take several months to get there. We don't have anywhere near the kind of technology to do that. Not just actually getting there, but also taking care of the astronauts in flight - how does a small spacecraft store enough consumables and water to last that long?
I met two of the people who were in the last 100 of candidates for the Mars mission. It was going to be gradually winnowed down from there. Don’t know if they are still in contention.
That's not really a thing, is it? Hell, we can't even get back to the MOON...
I'd be surprised if we get to Mars by 2120, let alone 2020.
Oh, don't mistake my meaning, I didn't actually get an attitude from anyone there! I just felt a bit guilty, that's all. Maybe I was supposed to.
This post begs for more details!
I'm not physically going to Mars but my name will be.
NASA lets the public be a part of different space missions. You collect frequent flyer points with each one that you sign up for. It's a fun (and free) way to be a part of history.With the inSight Mars mission they store thousands of names on a chip that's placed on the lander/rover. William Shatner took part in the last one.
I've heard that they're planning to have permanent residents on Mars before 2040. It's a one-way ticket. Go there and stay there for the rest of your (possibly) short life. They have already many more candidates than they need. Basically, it's spending the rest of your life in a room the size of a prison cell surrounded by a poisonous atmosphere where you couldn't survive more than a few seconds without an EV-suit!!! You'd think they would have a hard time finding candidates for that and you'd be wrong!!!
That would be optimal for Old people. Like me. I’d go and help colonize another planet. I’ve already had my kids and would miss him but it would be a way to do something meaningful for humanity that an otherwise pretty average person wouldn’t. Like the old people who volunteered to help in japan after the nuclear plants went bad after the tsunami.
Maybe, but I think they're taking only young and fit people and they STILL get many people willing!!
Old people can be fit and it sounds like the adventure of a lifetime. Hells yeah.
They need people who (likely) won't get sick for a long time as even a mild sickness could be a death sentence in such an unforgiving environment.
I'd never qualify, but if I could, I'd go in a second!
I used to say right after the Challenger explosion that even if I knew the shuttle would explode or not make it back home, I'd go, just to experience space once in my life. Unfortunately, some of the Challenger astronauts never did have the opportunity; and poor Christa McAuliffe.
I used to say right after the Challenger explosion that even if I knew the shuttle would explode or not make it back home, I'd go, just to experience space once in my life. Unfortunately, some of the Challenger astronauts never did have the opportunity; and poor Christa McAuliffe.
If they already have a waiting list (I know it’s long) I know they’ll pick the younglings first. Just saying if they suddenly run out of volunteers-
I'm not physically going to Mars but my name will be.
With the inSight Mars mission they store thousands of names on a chip that's placed on the lander/rover. William Shatner took part in the last one.
I didn’t know about that... that’s pretty awesome!!
Maybe in a thousand years, they'll retrieve these names on the chip and wonder what they mean... You could then really become part of history. And if you give your name to a star and that star happens to have an Earthlike planet, someday it could be colonized and an inhabited solar system would be named after you!!!
