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Related: About this forumWanted: People willing to die on Mars
The man behind the private space project dubbed Mars One is looking for people to travel to Mars, but he's not offering a return ticket.
"The technology to get humans to Mars and keep them alive there exists," Bas Lansdorp told Day 6 host Brent Bambury in an interview that aired this week on CBC Radio.
"The technology to bring humans from Mars back to Earth simply does not exist yet."
Lansdorp said he's looking for people who are utterly dependable, good in groups and "at their best when things are at their worst."
The never-to-return explorers will require eight years of training, and the search starts this year.
The flight is scheduled to leave in Sept. 2022.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/16/mars-one-live-die-mars.html
Audio interview (8:26)
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/ID/2345723991/
yourout
(7,534 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Lansdorp said he's looking for people who are utterly dependable, good in groups and "at their best when things are at their worst."
But they probably won't have me. I'm scrupulously flighty. You can't even depend upon me to be consistently unreliable. I hate groups and I'm at my worst when things are at their best.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)What the heck, send in your resume anyway.
You made me laugh! "Scrupulously flighty!"
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)and I can be assured that there will be no resistance...
I really don't want to wind up facing the working end of a Martian-made Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Gosh I loved that one as a child.
Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)Otherwise you will have no internet and that means no Facebook and no cable news. Wait a minute... No Fox News? Hmmmm... tempting but I'll wait for the internet connection to Earth.
http://astroengine.com/2008/04/09/will-the-first-mars-settlements-have-internet-access/
yourout
(7,534 posts)Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)dtom67
(634 posts)The fact that I'd be 65 at take-off probably leaves me out.
Sounds fascinating, though....
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...actually fly the thing to Mars. (by 2022, the computers will be nearly brain-smart).
I'll go...but on the second voyage...unless I meet a nice lady...that I've just opened a door for..
muriel_volestrangler
(101,367 posts)(2 in case one of the surgeons gets ill). There'll only be 4 of them for the first 2 years, so they'll have to be multi-skilled. They'll also need to be engineers to keep the life support equipment going, biologists to grow food in a completely new environment, plus any specialities you might want to justify the mission, eg geology. So, yeah, there probably will be quite a lot of training involved.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)There was a Soviet (or Russian; I forget how long ago it was) surgeon in the Antarctic who performed his own appendectomy.
I can't even imagine.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)I say this because the (well, most) of the good engineers I've met seem to have an aptitude to learn other subjects...like fixing a human body...learning how plants do/will/can grow and other trades related to fixing things.
MFM008
(19,820 posts)JUST KIDDING people.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)i've *always* wanted to die in space. still do. just drifting off into the cosmos sounds like literally an eternity in heaven to me.