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29-10-2010, 07:54 PM
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Buddhist Astronomer
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One way trip to MARS
NASA are looking for 20 volunteers to go to mars to colonise the planet. If I were single and had no injuries I would sign up in a second 
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/wor...-1225945124330
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29-10-2010, 08:40 PM
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ze frogginator
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ermmm... what do you do when you're there? 
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29-10-2010, 08:45 PM
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It would be good, unfortunatly this seems to be a madeup story. I can't find anything about this on Nasa website.
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29-10-2010, 08:57 PM
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Buddhist Astronomer
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ermmm... what do you do when you're there? |
Haven't you read RED MARS, GREEN MARS , BLUE MARS by Kim Stanley Robinson    It is a blue print for the colonisation of Mars.
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29-10-2010, 09:16 PM
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ze frogginator
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Haven't you read RED MARS, GREEN MARS , BLUE MARS by Kim Stanley Robinson It is a blue print for the colonisation of Mars. |
 I didn't read it no but all terraforming movies I've seen go horribly wrong from the get go (e.g. Aliens, Serenity, to name only a few)
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29-10-2010, 09:24 PM
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ermmm... what do you do when you're there? |
As long as you can take a telescope with you there would be nice dark skies to look at  .
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29-10-2010, 11:59 PM
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Highest Observatory in Oz
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The addition of a telescope to the crew kit would be a must, imagine being able to point it at the Earth, shining as a bright star in the sky and to be amazed that you can see continents, oceans and clouds...be a magical experience...and a sobering reminder of just what you got yourself into  
Mike
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30-10-2010, 01:50 AM
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Heard the report on the news, I am sure they would get a lot of people interested.
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30-10-2010, 03:54 AM
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I'd go
what do you do when you get there
survive
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30-10-2010, 06:38 AM
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I'd go. There's these hot, tall blue half naked women there, and you can fly around on a pet dinosaur bird thing, and these cool floating mountains, and beautiful plantlife, and.... Oh, wait, wrong planet...
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30-10-2010, 06:44 AM
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Nice one Troy, you do have a vivid imagination, don't you.
Leon
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30-10-2010, 06:45 AM
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yeah I'd be up for that!
Imagine all the 'firsts' you'd be able to claim!
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30-10-2010, 07:33 AM
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ze frogginator
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Originally Posted by troypiggo
I'd go. There's these hot, tall blue half naked women there, and you can fly around on a pet dinosaur bird thing, and these cool floating mountains, and beautiful plantlife, and.... Oh, wait, wrong planet...
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Wong doco Troy. It's actually full of flesh eating exploding bugs. (e.g red planet)
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30-10-2010, 07:50 AM
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Buddhist Astronomer
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The one and only thing that would stop me going taking into consideration my earlier conditions would be I would need to have the internet so I can get on IIS and share my adventures with you guys and plan when I would be shining my laser pointer at Earth and we could have Morse code conversations with light.
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30-10-2010, 08:00 AM
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Unpredictable
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Hey Warren;
Take a look at the post I just made in the Science Forum …
Looks like you might need to take one huge water-tank with you .. they're starting to think some of the water erosion features might have been caused by sublimating CO2 rather than liquid water.
Ahhh .. forget the water tanks … take a few kegs (of beer), I say !
Cheers
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30-10-2010, 08:30 AM
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i heard only a million bucks for that project sofar ?
regards john
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30-10-2010, 10:56 AM
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Chronic aperture fever
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If I didn't have my wife and kids I'd go. The opportunity of a lifetime.
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30-10-2010, 11:09 AM
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As long as you can take a telescope with you there would be nice dark skies to look at
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yeah I'd set up and it would probably rain (acid )
They should save a little more and send 40 polititions
humanity benefits right from the start and if it really goes terribly wrong it still gets better.
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30-10-2010, 11:12 AM
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It's cold, the soil is corrosive rust. You'd have to spend the rest of your life with only 19 other people, that is of course if they hadn't already murdered you or each other on the two year journey-in-a-tin-can.
Little or no verifiable water, no telly, no trees, no grass, no wildlife. You couldn't just go out for a stroll. You probably couldn't do any observing as the atmosphere would destroy your scope in a week, and even if it didn't, youd be trying to observe through the curved shield of a spacesuit.
All in all, unless Thuvia was waiting for me at the other end with a bottle of baby-oil, I'd even prefer to live in Albania.
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30-10-2010, 02:00 PM
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Buddhist Astronomer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nightstalker
yeah I'd set up and it would probably rain (acid )
They should save a little more and send 40 polititions
humanity benefits right from the start and if it really goes terribly wrong it still gets better.
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If you did that they would breed and return to take over Earth not a good idea.
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