You could get up there, declare independence from earth, and then defend planet Houston from tyanny. It's the stuff of legend.
Yes, I would love to go I edited out the picture cause I wasn't sure if it was okay and I didn't want to kill that privilege.
That would be a bummer, but I'm sure they'd let you leave a donation for later use. And Sterile doesn't mean impotent, so that'd be fine too.
if i didn't get tv or the internet or rockets games for a year, that would be a tough choice. the other thing is, if it's like a moon landing where i go for a few days or a week, collect some stuff, get to bounce around in my space suit, and just be in awe of being the first human on another planet, then yeah i'd go, even if i had to give up a year of tv and the internet. but if you have to settle the place? hell no. i can barely settle an apartment, much less a new planet with nothing set up there. you can just send me pictures of the colonization over the internet while i'm watching the rockets on earth.
I think I would go I consider that you will be there no less than 5 years before you can goto earth for a vacation or something I dunno about living there for ever but Man . .to be the Chris Columbus of Mars [or one of the guys on his ship] would be exciting. I figure . . . the logistics would be interesting more than likely ... . . you could land the ships and live on them while you start expanding from there or maybe have a ship in Geo Syncronous orbit It will not IMO be as harsh as the old west in some ways but I think the delay in communications would be less than an hour so catching Cable, etc would not be too too bad [hell . .you don't think time warner would wanna be the CABLE TO MARS?] Rocket River
You seem to have forgotten that you are going there to work, not get high, listen to music watch movies and surf p*rn sites all day.
The way it would probably go is this... 1. Send a series of communications satellites to establish in orbit. 2. Send a space station to act as a supply ship. All food, water, and other supplies would be sent to the space station before the first astronaut even left. 3 (potential and optional). Set up a space elevator from the space station to the surface. Basically, this is a long cable from the ground to the space station so that supplies and personnel could be easily delivered from orbit to the surface without the danger or logistics of actually landing a craft on the planet each time you have to deliver something or someone. This would be contingent on having created such an elevator here on Earth to work out the various issues. 4. Send an initial habitat, basically a space station for the ground. This would include living quarters, excercise area (to prevent muscle atrophy in low-G), food preparation, etc, as well as protection from radiation, solar flares, and the like. 5. Send the initial personnel in a craft capable of supporting the crew for 2-3 months while they build out and secure the initial habitat. 6. Once the habitat is in place and secure, personnel would probably rotate every 1-2 years to minimize the impact of low-G on their bodies. This would mean that astronauts would be deployed for 2-4 years to account for travel time. In response to the question, yes I would go. Only if they needed an uber-geek, though.
It could go something like this Journal entry: Looked at rocks Journal entry: Looked at rocks Journal entry: Looked at rocks Journal entry: Looked at rocks Journal entry: Looked at rocks Journal entry: Looked at rocks ...... Journal entry: Looked at rocks Journal entry: Thought I heard noise in sector 12, will investigate. End of jounral entries.
The first generation that survives in Mars will be subjected to new environments, new habitats, and a totally new lifestyle. With these things in mind, it'll start a whole new form of darwinism that will alter the make-up of the human genetic structure. In other words, the humans on Mars will slowly begin to adapt to Mars, until one day the distinction between humans and marsians will become quite evident. Then you would become the ancestral parent of an entirely new race of beings. Isn't that what Star Trek was all about?
