Mars One

This will be one of 2 things (if it actually does start to happen)

The greatest thing ever and something I always hoped to see in my lifetime
or
It gets half way there and vanishes, leaving no trace at all.
 
I remember a REALLY old pc game (very early 90's) where it was a simCity like game but on Mars. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it but this kind of reminds me of it.
 
Jonny Chee said:
Yep, it's not possible with current technology to get people back apparently.
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It's possible. It's wildly impractical, vastly expensive and they'd need a lot of time and effort to restore themselves to a fit state to live on Earth (the amount of gravity a person is subject to makes a big difference to their physiology), but it's possible.

I'm not convinced that it's possible to live there. I think this quote from the BBC article sums it up well:

Love has recently returned from Antarctica which he says is a "picnic compared to Mars". "It's full of water, you can go outside and breathe the air. It's paradise compared to Mars and yet nobody has moved there permanently."
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Mars is an absolute hellhole compared to the harshest environment on Earth, an environment so harsh that it kills people who are just travelling through it. Mars will kill you in seconds if you're not in a sealed environment, it has many ways to kill you with and there is no possibility of rescue if anything goes wrong in a way that doesn't kill you immediately.


But I think it's great that people are seriously considering trying to establish a settlement there. The "it's bordering on impossible, so I will do it" attitude is a big part of what drives humanity forwards.
 
BigChief said:
I remember a REALLY old pc game (very early 90's) where it was a simCity like game but on Mars. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it but this kind of reminds me of it.
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It was based around similar ideas as Constructor by system3, but yes I forgot its name too and it doesn't appear to be the work of the same publisher.
 
I think living in space is much, much more interesting and exciting than living on another planet. Frankly, Earth is great. But if I had to leave then the next best thing would be the Enterprise or a Space Station (think 2001:ASO or DS9)

Living on a barren planet like Mars? Nah, not even remotely interesting. At least not until we have Weyland Yutani to terraform it for us.
 
I can see that the people who might be the most likley to want to go would also likely be the least suitable.

I am sure that the people who might grab at something like this would be the same sort who might have joined in the Klondike Gold rush 120 years ago.

Unfortunately a Mars colony will most likely have to be highly collectivised with an authoritarian/military style of government.

Adventurers individualists of the type that went to Alaska or hitched up their wagons and rode west would almost certainly find this sort of socioty totally intolerable.

The sort of people who might tolerate it would almost certainly not want to go in the first place!
 
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