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Nobody wanted 1-way trips to Mars? Shocking.

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Survey says a third of us would do it: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2179922-a-third-of-us-w...

I fucking would. It's the ultimate adventure and I have nothing here on earth.

you have a hn account with decent latency ;)

Apparently a good number did! Which baffles me... why would you want that? Sounds like a very odd death trap with no resources, economy, services, entrertainnent, ability to travel, etc etc.

To me, it would be very odd if no one wants that since human vary. Someone out there must be crazy enough to just abandon their life on earth to have a chance to set the first stone of civilization in mars (or on the other extreme, no longer wants to live on earth).

While I did not apply, I can see the appeal. In one word: Adventure

Mars just seems a miserable place. Cold, dusty and pretty boring. I think the novelty would wear off pretty quickly.

Also it needs women.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060672/

Edit: It also needs humor.

Still sounds like quite an adventure.

Large parts of adventures are basically boredom in poor conditions.

What do you want do on Mars other than staying alive? There is not much there.

Make it more inhabitable for others, and maybe do a little research when not too busy just trying to stay alive? People volunteer to spend months stranded in a small research base in Antarctica, and they aren't even colonizing.

It was 30 degrees below zero in Chicago a couple weeks ago, and the experience was a lot like what life on Mars would be like. Spending nearly 100% of your time inside your habitat, and going outside is a big deal that requires a lot of preparation.

A week was enough of that for me. I'd still like to visit Mars, but I can't imagine I'd enjoy living in those conditions for the rest of my life.

Finland, Norway, Iceland, Sweden - they are pretty happy countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6IsFPRoslY

Well, sure. I live in Chicago which has winters as cold as those places. It's a relatively balmy 25 deg F in Helsinki right now. Not a big deal.

But the polar vortex we just went through was other-worldly cold. It was warmer on Mars much of the time that week. Stores and schools were shut down. The man in that video would have experienced frostbite if not death from exposure.

When I was student, I wear no hat up to -25°C (-13°F) (but I still have minor problem with right ear for 20 years after).

These people were the mark for this scam, paying thousands to "apply".

Who paid thousands? IIRC, I think they varried the price based on country, and in the US it was about $50 to apply.

I'd do it, if there were a high probability of it actually happening and a >50% chance of not dying.

Yeah-- show me that you actually have the ability to (literally) get off the ground, and a solid plan once we get there that doesn't involve me dying of starvation or asphyxiating, and I'd at the very least seriously consider applying.

Mars One didn't have that credibility, though. (I've seen very little to indicate that they were anything but a complete scam.)

I'd do it in a heartbeat, if I'd thought it had a chance in hell of succeeding. Everyone's going to die, why not do it while having the adventure of the millennium?

Sounds great. Give me your life savings and I'll put you on top of 10 tons of TNT [edit: less interesting, cheaper, less watch-list flagging choice] in a zorb ball with 500 pounds of hot dogs and 40 gallons of powerade. It's as likely to succeed as this was.

Like I said: if I thought it had a chance in hell.

I'll happily give you my life savings for 10 tons of semtex.

Little does he know its 100 bucks and a hotdog.

Why would you want a one-way trip out of a uterus onto this planet called Earth? It's ultimately a death trap. Oh, has resources, economy, services, entertainment and travel: for a privileged minority.

Not tens of thousands of years ago it didn't. It just had resources.

Earth is a death-trap since no one lives forever, some people just like the chance of doing something more substantial than working a 9-5 job every day and then dying on the same planet they were born on.

Why do people have children? To my mind it's a similar tradeoff: giving up a lot of your freedom, wealth, time, ability to travel... for the sake of a better future not for you but for the generation after you.

I wanted one for someone else. Several people, actually.

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