Wife on Mars
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Dat interplanetary ping
Still better than playing against someone in a village in sussex!
you can get several Mbps on mars, it varies between two speeds depending on if the thing in between to bounce off is aligned or not. Latency would suck balls though. Just have to have LAN days up there...To test the network/computing equipment for bugs of course.
I was seriously considering applying for this, but didnt for two reasons. One, I didn't think I would get selected, having skills in IT support/App Support and AutoCAD, but no electronics etc, I didn't think I was the best candidate.
The other reason, while I love being inside and messing about on/with tech, partying at my house etc. I don't think my mental state would do very well, being stuck with 20-40 people, who I potentially don't like *that* much, not being able to get away from them. No break from responsibility, if you cba to do something one day, you might die from whatever it was, the next day, or a year later because all your plants died as you forgot to water them, or got drunk on moonshine and peed on them or something.
The fact that some political person has got through to the last few, makes me kinda wish I had applied, but I still think the crazy will be a problem for everyone.
I doubt it will be one way, if you are young enough. Getting there, and setting up a base, will mean that less stuff needs to be taken there next time, and the time after that. So, therefore, they could gradually take materials there, to come back. Get an orbital station there, which has fuel on it etc, means the craft coming from the planet can be lighter and so on.
The tech advancements will be huge, and come in thick and fast.
Yeah but in every team you always get one annoying, competitive moron who has to win at everything. they'll probably smuggle a wallhack up there and ruin the game for everyone else
Yeah but in every team you always get one annoying, competitive moron who has to win at everything. they'll probably smuggle a wallhack up there and ruin the game for everyone else
OP Mars lagswitch
The problem is that its not NASA that she has applied through. Its Mars One, and is being paid for by the makers of Big Brother. If they sent up 4 people per year, it will probably be ok for the first couple of years when they sent up sensible people to try to ensure the colony is successful, but the subsequent years they'll just sent up transexuals and psychos in an attempt to get higher ratings.
Then you'd just be the widower of the woman that boned the trannie before getting murdered. And you be crying into your Mars One hoodie, whilst all the earth pasty is wondering how many VDs and personality defects you have that made your wife prefer to be at least 54.6 million km's away from you.
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I think I pitched this idea a few posts ago, I just proliferated interplanetary Big Brother. The only option now is to sign up myself as an act of penance. First I need a sex change, can I use kickstarter for that?
On the plus side you'd be able to sell your story to Ok! magazine and get on terrestrial Big Brother.
My wife has been missing for over a week and the police told me to expect the worst so I went and got her clothes back from the charity shop
don't see the point in sending ordinary citizens to live on mars I bet the suicide rates will be high once they realise how dull and boring it is but maybe they get famous which is probably all some of them want.
wow just watched the video of her and had to cringe I don't think they should send her into space I don't think she's all there.
let's face it mars will essntially be an open prison where there's no where to leave to. your daily life will be so tedious and boring unless your a scientist , geologist or something who finds it all fascinating.
it's not for regular people, I bet she would go crazy just living in the Arctic circle for a month in Norway or wherever somewhere remote
wow just watched the video of her and had to cringe I don't think they should send her into space I don't think she's all there.
let's face it mars will essntially be an open prison where there's no where to leave to. your daily life will be so tedious and boring unless your a scientist , geologist or something who finds it all fascinating.
it's not for regular people, I bet she would go crazy just living in the Arctic circle for a month in Norway or wherever somewhere remote
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You might be the one heading to Mars.
She can't work the Sky Plus, I'm indispensible.
There you go, first problem solved
They can't just have dumplings every 6-9 months... unless all the Women they're taking are going to be herded?
Its a suicide mission. They may make it there alive and be able to set up shelters on the surface but then what? They will be stuck inside a cramped environment with no escape and praying that nothing goes wrong. And if something does go wrong then that's it, no way back, no where to go.
Radiation might be a problem as well, I'm not sure how much exposure they'd get on the way or once they're on the surface as mars doesn't have a magnetic field like earth does. I cant imagine it being good long term though.
Check out this website for a sense of scale http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
Radiation might be a problem as well, I'm not sure how much exposure they'd get on the way or once they're on the surface as mars doesn't have a magnetic field like earth does. I cant imagine it being good long term though.
Check out this website for a sense of scale http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
enjoy those solar flares
Rofl, how the hell is it suicide. You will still live a life, not one you would like, but many people go to and live in extreme environments.
Radiation will not be an issue at all. About a metre of mars soil on top will block it.
There is a huge amount to do in regards to building a colony and research and it would continue to expand.
So in no way is it a suicide mission, that's just a often repeated nonsense quip.
Also it will not be normal people going, they will be screened, tested and intensively trained in many areas.
The real issue is not people or technology, that is pretty easy. It's finding the money and this is where mars one will struggle.