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[longbow]

One way trip to Mars....

Nasa plan Hundred Year Starship - the mission that will take astronauts to Mars and leave them there forever | Mail Online

What you going to have in your kit?

 

[shibumiseeker]

Duh. Mars Bars!

 

[SmileDocHill]

All the Democrats I can find. (I'll take one for the team)

 

[Keith_Indy]

Enough of something to have a dreamy peaceful death if it came to it.

Otherwise, several acceptable mating partners, enough material to build a homestead/habitat, and a robot army of construction bots... first couple of years of food, fertilizers, chickens, goats, beneficial bugs. Fabrication equipment. Nuclear power plant. Set me down near the ice cap, and we'll start building. Our own form of government, of course.

And what I would start doing is sending unmanned containers with supplies.

I'd volunteer for that. Or to the asteroid belt. That's where the real money will be at.

 

[longbow]

msg mars group campout...

 

[Joshnbb]

I got it, first we are going to need to build an ark, then we will gather up 2 of every kind of animal one of each sex and then we will sail erh i mean fly it to mars. along with these animals we will take inmates from the county jail and drop them all off. anyways its a good start

 

[Orsetto Lavatore]

I think we need to get serious about terraforming if we are going to seriously think about putting human on mars.

Humans cant live in suits and enclosures forever - for a few generation, sure... but long term you will need more supplies than can be trucked in. The planet would need to have a breathable atmosphere, because eventually people would need to get out and about in order to search for resources.

 

[renegade]

Duh. Mars Bars!

Why? That's where they come from.

 

[Cpt Caveman]

Science fiction folks.

 

[shibumiseeker]

Why? That's where they come from.

Good point!

Snickers then. You can survive indefinitely on Mars Bars and Snickers.

 

[shibumiseeker]

Science fiction folks.

Not really. Getting off this rock and colonizing space is something humans need to do. If we want to survive as a species in the long run.

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"
-Robert Browning.

 

[TiminMishawaka]

What a misappropriation of resources! This does NOTHING to help Muslims feel better about themselves!

 

[cosermann]

. . . What you going to have in your kit?

Let's see, what's my budget? Like a BILLION dollars plus?

 

[Eddie]

I'll be packing plenty of radium bullets and a good sword for all of the Barsoomian style adventure that is sure to take place.

 

[shibumiseeker]

I'll be packing plenty of radium bullets and a good sword for all of the Barsoomian style adventure that is sure to take place.

Well, if you need any reading material for what to expect, I just so happen to have a COMPLETE Burroughs Barsoom collection for sale! Some of them first edition, none of them any younger reprints than 60 years

Sorta like a travel guide, dontcha know.

(stepfather died in April, I got much of his SF collection, selling off the rarer stuff, got complete Tarzan too.)

 

[cosermann]

I'm pretty sure my kit would include things that haven't even been invented yet (but will be for this mission).

 

[Blackhawk2001]

It's probably going to have to wait for a fusion-power generator; colonists are going to need a reliable source of energy to crack the O2 out of the ice. A billion-dollar max price tag will basically mean slow suicide for the colonists. They'll need to be able to grow food, make oxygen, make replacements for equipment, shelter and clothing. They'll need basic medicines and the means to make more. They'll need entertainment and information systems, communications gear, ground and/or air transport. Also, four personnel are not enough for a "colony"; at most they will be a science expedition. The concept is a step in the right direction, though. We need to get off the planet and get access to the resources of the solar system. It might help the environment (for anyone who really cares) to get most manufacturing space-side as well.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Nature has provided the most efficient means of producing fuel and oxygen through natural photosynthesis.

Just give me a bunch of seeds. We'll have that planet rocking in no time, assuming the martian soil has the proper amounts of nitrogen and other minerals.

I'm assuming the ship will be converted into shelter once we land.

 

[SavageEagle]

Psh... Mars.... We need to focus on building a LARGE space station first. Fission powered. Then we need to focus on space TRAVEL before we worry about colonizing other planets. There's just NO WAY we're going to make Mars a habitable planet. Best we can hope for is mining operations on local planets to mine resources for ship building and propulsion. Once we learn how to survive long term in space, then maybe we'll have a chance. Until then, we're just spinning our wheels.

 

[Cru]

Take some sod, trees, water, and some rabbits... then TAH-DA! You're dead.