Eight years to train for suicide. Anyone interested?

No way in hell. Not even remotely up for that game.

Would anyone be in favour of spending their remaining days in a very small prison cell, never able to go outside, periodically catching a glimpse of the paradise in the distance that you left behind?
 
JonJ678 said:
No way in hell. Not even remotely up for that game.

Would anyone be in favour of spending their remaining days in a very small prison cell, never able to go outside, periodically catching a glimpse of the paradise in the distance that you left behind?
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I'd likely spend some of the time doing a hell of a lot soul searching, meditation, reading and whatnot. Take a dander around Mars occasionally and see what I can see.

Then one day walk outside and take off my helmet.

I think that sounds rather good, actually.
 
Pestilence said:
I'd likely spend some of the time doing a hell of a lot soul searching, meditation, reading and whatnot. Take a dander around Mars occasionally and see what I can see.

Then one day walk outside and take off my helmet.

I think that sounds rather good, actually.
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Obviously you know you will die with helmet removed but you aware of just how painful it will be, your blood will boil as you loose pressure, not nice! lol
 
Think OP misunderstands. This is not suicide in the slightest.
You aren't being dumped their to DIY. You are setting up a clony and will live until you die.

Would love to do this and 10sof thousands if not 100,000s of thousands will sign up.
After reading nasa, JAXA and other selection processes, there is no point. I as well as most other people would fail on so many fronts.
 
Combat squirrel said:
Obviously you know you will die with helmet removed but you aware of just how painful it will be, your blood will boil as you loose pressure, not nice! lol
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Myth, your skin keeps pressure inside your body, your blood want boil in a vacume. The only liquids which will boil are ones subjected to that vacume, ie your saliva. As that person describes before passing out in an altitude chamber when his suit failed, he felt his saliva boiling before passing out.
Then Mars isn't even a vacume, it has an atmosphere.
 
Would love to go. There was some experiment in Russia few years ago where people spent a year in a capsule to test things. Would have liked to do that too but don't really have any useful expertise/
 
I think you'd eventually go nuts being confined to the "pods" or complex. Looking at the video it doesn't look like you'll have a load of places to wander around in!
 
Glaucus said:
Myth, your skin keeps pressure inside your body, your blood want boil in a vacume. The only liquids which will boil are ones subjected to that vacume, ie your saliva. As that person describes before passing out in an altitude chamber when his suit failed, he felt his saliva boiling before passing out.
Then Mars isn't even a vacume, it has an atmosphere.
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Haven't you seen License to Kill?

Head = explode. Fact.


:p
 
Narj said:
I think you'd eventually go nuts being confined to the "pods" or complex. Looking at the video it doesn't look like you'll have a load of places to wander around in!
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Most people would fail selection for this and other reasons. Asteonaughts have already spent several hundred days + on ISS. On mars you will be outside a lot doing experiments and collecting samples, geology etc. it certainly wouldn't be a contemplation Holliday. Almost every hour for at least the first few years would be planned down to the second.
Put it this way nasa planned in gawking time for the moon missions, that's how tight te time line was for several days.

As for those saying go 50/50 with nasa, for a start a return mission doesn't just double the price, it goes exponential.
Secondly nasa doesn't want to use off the shelf parts, mars one, planetry resources and all the other private firms want to use falcon heavy and falcon dragon capsules and other off the shelf parts, saving billions from the costs.
 
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A lot of astronauts suffer from muscle and bone atrophy, i cant imagine the problems such a long flight will incur.

I realise we have some preventative measures, but they don't work very well and that's only for 4 months on the ISS, hopefully by 2022 we could develop a cure for it.
 
Goberpiles316 said:
Im too tall :(
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It's cool, here's what you do:

Apply anyway.

When you're getting on the space shuttle, and they have the guy holding out his hands "you must be between these heights to go on this ride",

you... SLUMP!


Just shuffle down a bit and make yourself smaller, it'll work, trust me.
 
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