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US & Russia Pencil in Mars Launch by 2018
snilloc writes "The Washington Times is reporting that the US and Russia (and the Europeans are mentioned too) are planning for an eventual manned Mars trip. Suggested launch years are 2014 or 2018. The article discusses unmanned probes at greater length than the manned plans, but check out the Russian isolation experiment where 6 people will spend 500 days in a simulated spacecraft environment. (Sounds like a good reality TV show to me.)"
What good is it sending a pencil to Mars?
Believe me, I'm as surprised by my comment as you are.
(Sounds like a good reality TV show to me.)"
50 days, no - lets be honest FIVE days of something like Big Brother is enough for anyone - 500 days would be a fatal dose, surely!
Just so long as there isnt a hot tub, and there are no women you'd like to see nekkid we'd be safe from having to view! But just one chick in there and you know we'd all be streaming this 24/7 until it came under the Real Gold Pass (or whatever they call it this week) around about day 480.
but check out the Russian isolation experiment where 6 people will spend 500 days in a simulated spacecraft environment.
Jeez, and I bitch when I have to wear a tie to work.
Old hat. Douglas Quaid cleaned up Mars back in 1990. They have a thriving mining community, breathable atmosphere and leet alien artifacts.
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Political discussion for a new world
The size of our own galaxy is measured in hundreds of light years and the farthest we have gone off this little rock is the far side of the Moon, just a little over 2 light seconds away. It is embarrasing
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ME WANTEE!
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The participants, who will be given 3 tons of water and 5 tons of food, will undergo training on how to act in hazardous situations, the official said. Water and oxygen for the "flight" will be generated by means of the participants' own life processes.
I don't think I want to watch...
'The most important thing the US can do to get to Mars is make it an American-only mission.'
nah, the UN will never let them do that.
oh, wait..
"(Sounds like a good reality TV show to me.)"
NO! Don't give FOX any more ideas!! I don't want to see 500 days of fake drama!
KARMA TAG! You're it.
The six participants have not yet been chosen, and the selection process will be rigorous, Mr. Malashenkov went on, saying an all-male crew was likely.
Why not an all female crew? You could save a couple of kilos on the launch, and their energy requirements (i.e. food) are likely to be lower over the course of a long-term trip, since they don't have to maintain as much body mass.
Of course there's that whole Men are From Mars thing...
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Suggested launch years are 2014 or 2018.
I've checked my calendar and I'm free then. Sign me up.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
Do not touch the pencils. It is a Zionist American trick. They are actually bombs.
Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
again!!!! ARggh!!"
Mission Control: "Comrades, comrades, keep
in mind, when you are in orbit of mars, we will
not be able to resupply you with
constant 'squeeze cheese'"
*dramatic music*
Voice Over: Next week find out who gets
voted out of the training pod and thrown out of
the air lock. Will it be Ivan with his insatiable
appetite for squeezable cheese? or will it be
Ivana and her insistance on leaving tampons in
the engineering section???
From the office of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (aka Baghdad Bob):
"There is no Mars! The red plannet does not exist! It is a trick by the coalition forces!"
More at 11.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
I think it would be very difficult to live in tight quarters with 5 other people for almost a year and a half, floating through space on a mission that would bring back all kinds of info that will be useful for humankind. "Just another few months with these freaks", you could think, "and we'll have accomplished something great. When we get home I'll be famous, and I'll have a pickup line that no one else in the bar can hope to match!" Besides, once you've launched, you can't really change your mind, so you just focus on managing the stress.
:)
Now imagine you're just one of the guinea pigs in the 500-day test. You're not going to be famous. You aren't exploring new frontiers. You're like a kid camping out in his backyard... except you promised your parent (Dr. and Mrs. Skinner?) that you wouldn't come inside for FIVE HUNDRED DAYS, even though you know that some days it's sunny outside the tent and you can hear the other kids playing in the park across the street. Sometimes a dog wanders by and urinates on the corner of the tent (days 3, 5, 16, 21, 23-twice, 28, 29...). Twice a day a scientist peers in through a porthole to see if you've cracked up yet. Can you imagine it? Wouldn't you just feel like you were pissing away a chunk of your life?
And just think -- to be realistic, their connection to the internet would start broadband, then go gradually down to dial-up and worse....
There are only 10 types of people: those who understand decimal, those who don't, and, uh, 8 other types I forget.
1. The astronauts use it to write in their notebooks.
2. The notebooks sell at auction 30 years later.3. Profit!!
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Wait, I have it all figured out. They are going to make a Reality based TV show out of it. This is how Lance Bass from N'Sync is going to pay for the trip, except the whole group is going to go. Every 9 to 13 year old girl will be glued to the TV for 500 days. Imagine the ratings.
Even if the mission end in catastrophic failure, at least there will be one less boy band on this planet.
I hope they have that metre and feet thing worked out this time...
How about "Operation Martian Freedom?" CNN can come up with some dramatic music to go along with it.
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