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10-27-2010, 09:50 PM
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Wanted: Pioneers To Take A One-Way Trip To Mars
28th oct 2010 SPACE scientists aim to launch the flight of a lifetime - with astronauts going to Mars and never coming back. The interplanetary pioneers would make a one-way trip to set up a human colony on the red planet or its moons. The ambitious project is being championed by NASA official Pete Worden - who heads one of the agency's top research centres which has been given £1million to start work on the idea. And he hopes wealthy investors will fund the venture. Mr Worden - whose dream is dubbed the Hundred Years Starship - said he had already discussed the cost with Google co-founder Larry Page, telling him a mission to Mars could cost no more than £7billion. Mr Worden said: "The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds." The NASA team believes it could send a team of astronauts to settle on Mars by 2030. That journey could take between six and nine months but establishing bases on other worlds would involve flights many times longer. Volunteers would leave Earth knowing they would never return. NASA believes it would be too expensive to fly people to and fro. Instead, they would establish a colony and be sent regular supplies until they could become totally self-sufficient. Experts are convinced the necessary technology already exists. Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies write in the current Journal of Cosmology: "A one-way human mission to Mars would not be a fixed duration project, as in the Apollo program, but the first step in establishing a permanent human presence. "There are many reasons why a human colony on Mars is a desirable goal, scientifically and politically. "The strategy of one-way missions brings this goal within technological and financial feasibility. "Nevertheless, to attain it would require not only major international cooperation but a return to the exploration spirit and risk-taking ethos." They compared the spirit of the first people to live on Mars to the early settlers in North America - travelling to a distant land, knowing they would never return home.  ·  ·  · |
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10-28-2010, 03:13 AM
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Re: Wanted: Pioneers To Take A One-Way Trip To Mars
Ahh yes, humans have fucked up and destroyed Earth, now it's time to do it to the rest. Why fix our own when we can just move on and leave a big huge mess behind?
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10-28-2010, 11:18 PM
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 My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:2962 Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 133 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 2 Post(s)
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Re: Wanted: Pioneers To Take A One-Way Trip To Mars
the minute we leave earth it will start to repair itself and eventually all traces of humans will be lost as if we were never here .....
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