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Manned Mars Mission Some Way Off

Posted by michael on from the paging-captain-obvious dept.

10,9,8,7... Count Down Aborted writes "The BBC brings some perspective to the manned mission to Mars debate recently reinvigorated by the discovery of vast H2O ice reserves on Mars. Basically, they list many of the reasons (e.g. psychological, political, monetary, and technological) why we must proceed very carefully and slowly despite the significance of such a mission if it were successful. They also raised the interesting question, "Who should be the members of such a crew if it were to be launched?"" Update: 05/28 14:28 GMT by H : Another good link is on USA Today.

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  1. Crew Members by desolation+angel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Me!

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    This time I could be arsed.
  2. I have an idea for the Crew. by forged · · Score: 1, Redundant
    • The crew will have to be specially selected to be able to cope. Should it be a mixed crew or all men, or all women?

    They can send me and a large number of females for breeding and other recreational (and scientific) activities !

  3. Crew by DigitalDragon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who should be the members of such a crew if it were to be launched

    How about a rock band or a pop band like N'Sync? Or even better, we already know the bad ass crew from Armageddon!

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  4. Crew members by Greger47 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Who should be the members of such a crew if it were to be launched?"

    Well duh! Marstronauts, ofcourse!

  5. Re:Once again "The Simpsons" shows us the way by Carbon+Blob · · Score: 0, Redundant

    +1 funny! I never have mod points at the right times...