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Post by i.Sarita.com on Jan 24, 2010 20:51:39 GMT -5
Let's say you get the chance to be the first person to ever step foot on Mars. The trip in the shuttle is for three years just going there, and you'll be alone for that entire time. AND you won't be able to come back. You'll land, walk on the surface, and then slowly run out supplies and die.
Would you still be willing to go? To go down in history as the first person on Mars. Even though you'll never get to appreciate that fact.
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 24, 2010 21:09:40 GMT -5
To me, it'd be a bit like going down in history as the first person to jump in an active volcano, only with more starvation.
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Jan 24, 2010 21:12:13 GMT -5
To me, it'd be a bit like going down in history as the first person to jump in an active volcano, only with more starvation. Not really though. To everyone else you will be remembered forever as being the first person on Mars, much like the men who first walked on the Moon. |
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Post by default on Jan 24, 2010 21:13:05 GMT -5
Honestly? Sure, why not. As long as the space ship is semi-comfortable and I get paid decently beforehand.
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Post by Soultastic on Jan 24, 2010 21:14:15 GMT -5
Not at all. Being the first person on Mars, not doing anything there and starving to death is not important at all, it's just a trivia fact.
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Post by Pervy Stone Cold on Jan 24, 2010 21:16:56 GMT -5
No oppurtunity to have grandkids (assuming I am young in this situation) and telling them a story of a lifetime means this is a no go.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jan 24, 2010 21:21:08 GMT -5
I'll do it as long as, somewhere down the line, when man is colonizing Mars, they erect a massive statue of me out of gold and precious jewels to signify me as the god of the Martian people. Also, the statue breathes fire.
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Jan 24, 2010 21:24:04 GMT -5
I'll do it as long as, somewhere down the line, when man is colonizing Mars, they erect a massive statue of me out of gold and precious jewels to signify me as the god of the Martian people. Also, the statue breathes fire. That sounds good. Let's say after another 150 years or so they errect the first liveable station on Mars and they name the entire thing after you. |
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Jan 24, 2010 21:28:26 GMT -5
Depends. How old am I when I set foot there? I mean, being remembered is nice, but I want a ton of my memories to remember myself first.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Jan 24, 2010 21:40:18 GMT -5
Well, this is what happens when you let Rod Sterling and HP Lovecraft direct the Space Program.
Sterling: "And then it will turn out, EARTH WAS DESTROYED WHILE IN TRANSIT, so no one will ever remember your deeds! What a Twist!"
Lovecraft: "And Mars will have aliens. Vaugely racists ones at that."
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Jan 24, 2010 21:49:34 GMT -5
Depends. How old am I when I set foot there? I mean, being remembered is nice, but I want a ton of my memories to remember myself first. Let's say you get offered to be the person when you are 25, and they give you 500 million dollars. And your flight leaves when you're 45. |
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Jan 24, 2010 21:58:16 GMT -5
Wait a minute...why would I starve to death? Who would go to Mars without taking enough supplies to last for a return trip? And, wouldn't there be a way for me to grow food on Mars, like vegetables? Why wouldn't I be able to come back? Who would go on a one-way trip to Mars? Sure, it would be awesome to want to walk around on Mars; but I'd still want to go back to Earth.
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Jan 24, 2010 22:00:35 GMT -5
Wait a minute...why would I starve to death? Who would go to Mars without taking enough supplies to last for a return trip? And, wouldn't there be a way for me to grow food on Mars, like vegetables? Why wouldn't I be able to come back? Who would go on a one-way trip to Mars? Sure, it would be awesome to want to walk around on Mars; but I'd still want to go back to Earth. You only have enough space for one trip worth of fuel. |
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Post by Insomniac on Jan 24, 2010 22:03:31 GMT -5
Depends. How old am I when I set foot there? I mean, being remembered is nice, but I want a ton of my memories to remember myself first. Let's say you get offered to be the person when you are 25, and they give you 500 million dollars. And your flight leaves when you're 45. So I'd get to spend 20 years of my life loaded, living like a king, and then I get to be the first man to walk on Mars? I'd say "yes" in a heartbeat. |
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Jan 24, 2010 22:08:58 GMT -5
Wait a minute...why would I starve to death? Who would go to Mars without taking enough supplies to last for a return trip? And, wouldn't there be a way for me to grow food on Mars, like vegetables? Why wouldn't I be able to come back? Who would go on a one-way trip to Mars? Sure, it would be awesome to want to walk around on Mars; but I'd still want to go back to Earth. You only have enough space for one trip worth of fuel. What the hell am I taking that's so important it has to waste all that fuel? |
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Jan 24, 2010 22:11:48 GMT -5
You only have enough space for one trip worth of fuel. What the hell am I taking that's so important it has to waste all that fuel? The food and scientific supplies you are carrying. And plus, the shuttle can only hold enough fuel for the intitial 3 year trip. |
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 24, 2010 22:16:50 GMT -5
To me, it'd be a bit like going down in history as the first person to jump in an active volcano, only with more starvation. Not really though. To everyone else you will be remembered forever as being the first person on Mars, much like the men who first walked on the Moon. Except they got to come back. That's the difference for me. I think life is worth more than being a sentence in a textbook. To me, the choice is comparable to having a disease named after me. |
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Jan 24, 2010 22:23:29 GMT -5
What the hell am I taking that's so important it has to waste all that fuel? The food and scientific supplies you are carrying. And plus, the shuttle can only hold enough fuel for the intitial 3 year trip. Well, who made this crappy shuttle? Why couldn't these people make a shuttle that could get me back to Earth? |
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Jan 24, 2010 22:31:11 GMT -5
The food and scientific supplies you are carrying. And plus, the shuttle can only hold enough fuel for the intitial 3 year trip. Well, who made this crappy shuttle? Why couldn't these people make a shuttle that could get me back to Earth? NASA. And the space program is expensive, so they've had to cut back thanks to the economy. |
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Post by Insomniac on Jan 24, 2010 22:36:29 GMT -5
And the space program is expensive, so they've had to cut back thanks to the economy. Even in this struggling economy, NASA's budget continues to rise (Expected to be $18.7 billion in 2010, up from $17.2 billion in 2009). Yet they still can't afford a little more room in the shuttle? |
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