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Would you go to Mars...If it meant never returning to Earth?
(CNN) -- Step right up and prove why you should get a one-way ticket to Mars! Well, wait -- you might want to know a little more about the venture first.
I would love to go for the sake of humanity and myself.. I believe there is no good future for Humans without space-travel and making other worlds habitable. We need to go out there, i actually did apply for the space mission aswell.
If it meant governing the first space colony, then yes. I suppose it wouldn't matter whose nation I'm originally the colony of, I will rebel and switch to British allegiance as soon as we were self sustainable.
I don't have a purpose here on Earth, so I'd give it a go if it meant I could serve humanity.
I mean here on Earth I'm just another person, yet if I could go to Mars and send them back information, that could help them maybe disperse our population, or even to grow something there, I'd be all game just for the knowledge that would be gained.
your'd have better luck with a flute or a wood wind instrument. Think about it. A string breaks out on mars... The nearest music store is... well an interplanetary distance away.
Lol, this got me in a really giggly state. Earth a perfect planet we are already adapted too vs. Mars a cold, barren wasteland without a trace of any kind of food. Any volunteers want to go to mars without any hope of ever seeing earth ever again? I wouldn't be surprised if everyone said no. I however would go just so that humans can forever say I was the first man to walk on mars. I'd probably put a gun to my head shortly after.
Plus I have a better Idea. Since I'm not really in it for the money I'll share it with the people here on create debate. Since we know that other planets harbor oceans of water within the perfect distance from a solar source. Why don't we create tiny space probes capable of carrying microbial life across the distance of space armed with a self awareness program that can accurately steer its way to the target planet? Right now our space programs are extremely costly and in no way practical. My idea of the space ship would use Kinetic energy. I've worked on a few possible designs already. The best one I've got can be described as "playing pool in space"
You have a battering ram that is hooked to a spherical space craft via a crescent moon shape (looks a lot like an earth globe) where as this battering ram can be positioned anywhere on the surface of the craft for maximum steering control.
I've found the best way to go is to have the battering ram encased and be in free float. Using a vacuum and compressed gas (most likely air) you can recycle the effect of pushing and pulling giving it an unlimited fuel supply. Of course the biggest challenge I have faced is electric energy which I believe would have to come from solar sources via an extremely sensitive panel or even small nuclear power cells. These will produce the necessary heating (incubation chamber). Another problem I've faced is how to make these microorganisms self sufficient and reliant on either two or more different variants/species because they need food too. Although, who knows maybe it would be easy to create enough food for micro organisms to travel great distances without sacrificing to much.
Oh, I'm not saying that you have a perfectly good stance. But care to give an explanation of 'why?' THere are plenty of people who agree with you, say why you're right!
Because I really really hate space and mars and I'd like to enjoy my video games, coffee, and life a bit more before embarking on a suicide mission to the ass end of space?
Idk. sings These are a few of my favorite things...
Yes, but some people have the same response as 'hell fucking no' to other dangerous and stupid acts. Like bungie-jumping or skydiving. And yet we don't question their reasons. Because it's obvious.
Right, but the point of this site is not to just say 'of course not, it's common sense, people who disagree are stupid or unnatural,' you say 'No, because.'
It's not the question! IT'S THE POINT OF THE SITE ITSELF! Debates exist so that good discussion can be had WITH REASONS, not simply stating 'I agree with that' and then getting in a contradiction fight with other debaters! You have to have reasons, otherwise the site has no purpose other than polls. If that was true, then it would be called CreatePolls.
Um, no, I'm not getting upset, I'm getting mildly annoyed because you are not understanding the point of the site. The argument I'm making is inherent in the make-up of the site.
It's not coming from the debate creator, it's coming from the site creator! In the 'About' section (which you can see in the top bar) the site makes it clear what the site is for:
CreateDebate is a new social networking community built around ideas, discussion and democracy...Our goal is to build CreateDebate into an incredibly useful learning tool that will help groups of people to sort through issues, viewpoints and opinions so that consensus and understanding can be reached and better decisions can be made.
Ideas, discussion, and democracy. Issues, viewpoints, and opinions.
You've made your idea very clear, as well as your view on the issue, you need to actually contribute to the discussion, to help maintain the democracy. Everyone adds an equal share of things to the debate. You have said what you believe, just add that little extra 'why.'
Hell no, I think some very valuable knowledge to go by is that NASA put into consideration of colonizing there, and if you look into it, it is actually very damaging and detrimental to your life. In the near future they plan on sending people up to mars, they were discussing whether or not they wanted to send people there for six months or for three days. The reason for this is because six months would probably progress to the scientific goals more significantly than three days, however six months may be a lot more detrimental to people's physical health than three days. One researcher suggested colonizing the planet, however taking into consideration the negative health effects that made NASA hesitant to do a six month visit, coloniation would nearly kill you. Plus even if you could go up there with no negative health effects, sure it would be amazing to explore another planet, but there are practically no resources there, you can't eat as well there as here, live there as well as you can here, and although it would be amazingly exciting, it would also be drastically boring, being a dead red planet. No thanks I prefer to live for the rest of my life, around people, oceans, wildlife, society, with a blue sky, and lush green forests.
Surviving on Mars is going to be very difficult considering there will be absolutely zero luxuries such as computers, television, Createdebate, golf, cars and movies.
To me, the most interesting aspect of the journey will be the sociology aspect of it - how will people act when they know that they are completely divorced from any chance of society, of any rules other than what they themselves do? Especially considering that only a certain type of person would apply for such an 'opportunity', could make for some very interesting headlines.
I would rather stay on Earth. Visiting mars is one thing, but living there is something else. I Would want to come back soon, and the trip would be to long anyway.
