NASA’s Newest Recruitment Posters Will Tempt You Work On Mars

[left-of-center2012]

To encourage further understanding of Mars, NASA has launched a series of posters encouraging all the planetary aficionados to sign up for the ultimate mission; to live in Mars.
NASA's goal is to eventually set up a whole colony in Mars. To make this a reality, people from all walks of life equipped with skills, knowledge, and talents are needed.

http://www.lifebuzz.com/mars-job/

[inanna]

1. Very cool.

But I'm just not that brave.

[alittlelark]

2. I love the posters - but I am over 50......

They need to be tweeting..... And in an age appropriate way.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. They're talking a ONE WAY TRIP so older people make sense.

[alittlelark]

25. LOL!!!! Book me a ticket !!!

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Cool.

Sadly, I am too old. But I hope to live long enough to see others go.

[LeftRant]

5. Where's this one?: PEE IN A BAG IN YOUR SUIT

:p

EDIT: I do like the art style

[GoDawgs]

7. That would be great for beer-soaked football games

Never miss any action in 3rd or 4th quarter of Utopia Planitia State vs Cydonia U!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Yes, that's the one advantage of a catheter / collection bag.

No need to stand in line during half-time.

And you can drive a long distance between pit stops.

Dunno about working on Mars. Do they have nice golf courses at their retirement homes?

[allan01]

6. we want you for the new recruit . in the nasa , in the nasa.

[montana_hazeleyes]

8. I guess I sound like a crab,

but now humans get to go screw up Mars.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Maybe you're just not looking at the bigger picture. The Earth is alive, right?

Well, like all living things, perhaps it wants to reproduce.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. If they need commercial pilots/software engineers, I am SO in!

...as long as I can bring my pups, of course!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. "Total Recall" and "Blade Runner" mashed together? nt

[rug]

13. I'm doing my part.

[Hekate]

14. Podkayne approves!

[left-of-center2012]

15. "Podkayne"

OK, I had to google that!

Podkayne of Mars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podkayne_of_Mars

[Hekate]

16. My sibs and I read SciFi by the boxload, growing up

Literally, since Dad and his friends at Lockheed shared their books and periodically he would bring home a cardboard boxfull.

I wanted to be out there as much as my brothers and sister, though as for the genre it was the brief appearance of Telzey Amberdon that showed me girls could be more than sidekicks. When my sister was a young engineering student at UC Berkeley she hoped for a time to apply for NASA's astronaut program.

I believed then that true exploration of the Moon and Mars would be attained in my lifetime, and was deeply disappointed when the US pulled back from those goals...

Recruiting posters -- what a great idea. Now get some boxes of paperback sci fi into those kids's hands and make our public schools' STEM programs something to be proud of. Hekate will be waving farewell from the docks.

[left-of-center2012]

18. I know Robert A. Heinlein's name

But only recall having read "Farnham's Freehold", post apocalyptic fiction being a favorite of mine.

[Hekate]

20. Heinlein was great in his time, and very prolific

Because reading was a solitary activity for me, I was taken quite by surprise when his Stranger in a Strange Land seized the imagination of so many of my contemporaries when it came out in the 1960s and became a cult favorite. I couldn't believe my ears when a young man told me quite seriously that he and his "Water Brothers" were going to move to New Zealand and found a "Nest."

I always wondered what the New Zealanders thought of that.

In the 1950s and 1960s there was a lot of post-apocalyptic sci fi due to two things: WW II was within living memory of our parents, and the Atomic Age had been thoroughly ushered in and we had daily reminders due to H-bomb tests and threats from the Soviets, until both sides achieved MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). I was probably much too young to have been reading those books at the time, but since I read anything that was around I got a pretty good sample of that subgenre and its harrowing imagery.

I haven't kept up with the genre that well in some time, though periodically my sis (who became a software engineer) will toss me the titles of some must-read author and then I read them. Portrayal of female characters has come a long long way.

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. I like them

[msanthrope]

19. I'd do it. nt

[Hekate]

21. Part of me wants to say: Clean your room (Earth) before you go out to play...

But the other part of me wants to hitch a ride as the cook on an outbound science vessel and head for the stars.

[KittyWampus]

22. If NASA does work towards sending people to Mars it should be defunded. Waste of money.

Now, sending increasingly sophisticated robots?

That would make sense.

And the technology would benefit all of us.

[awoke_in_2003]

24. You make good sense

but human missions build excitement for the public, which can equate to public acceptance of more funding for NASA.

[PufPuf23]

23. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy tells of the terraforming and

settlement of Mars by humanity.

A very good read.

"The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries. Ultimately more utopian than dystopian, the story focuses on egalitarian, sociological, and scientific advances made on Mars, while Earth suffers from overpopulation and ecological disaster."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

[krispos42]

26. I printed out several of these...

To cover holes in the wall above my desk at work when a cabinet decided to detach without warning.

Fortunately, I wasn't there right when it happened. I have an "explore Mars" theme going on on my corner of the room because we've made some stuff on the Mars Curiosity rover.

[meow2u3]

27. I'd wish Rump and his Trumpanzees would take a one-way trip to Mars

but this might happen:

[longship]

28. Good show, NASA!

Mars travel posters! Perfect!