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Elon Musk: First Humans Who Journey To Mars Must 'Be Prepared To Die' (theverge.com)
At a conference yesterday, Elon Musk outlined his company SpaceX's plan to send humans to Mars. The vehicle is called the Interplanetary Transport System and it is capable of carrying 100 tons of cargo (people and supplies). Musk added that this rocket ship could take people to Mars in just 80 days. But he also reminded that the first batch of people who are brave enough to go to Mars should be well aware that they are almost certainly going to die. The Verge adds:During the Q&A session that followed, the question inevitably came up: what sort of person does Musk think will volunteer to get strapped to that big rocket and fired toward the Red Planet? "Who should these people be, carrying the light of humanity to Mars for all of us?" an audience member asked. "I think the first journeys to Mars will be really very dangerous," answered Musk. "The risk of fatality will be high. There's just no way around it." The journey itself would take around 80 days, according to the plan and ideas that Musk put forward. "Are you prepared to die? If that's okay, then you're a candidate for going," he added. But Musk didn't want to get stuck talking about the risks and immense danger. "This is less about who goes there first... the thing that really matters is making a self-sustaining civilization on Mars as fast as possible. This is different than Apollo. This is really about minimizing existential risk and having a tremendous sense of adventure," he said.
Basement on Earth, basement on Mars, the view's all the same...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Out of several tens of billions of humans, only a fraction have not yet died, and of those who died, only a small percent of disputed cases indicate recovery.
Nope! I'm gonna have my brain cryogenically frozen, and be scanned into a brain emulator 200 or so years from now when tech advances.
Thus, I'll still be trolling Slashdot for thousands and thousands of years! Bwwaaaaa ha ha ha
Table-ized A.I.
At least I'd get away from all the Elon Musk stories.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The first Mars colony is always wiped out. It's the second one that thrives -- after 90% of the colonists are wiped out.
Isn't that also in the Microsoft License Agreement?
Table-ized A.I.
And on that date in the future when they unthaw your brain you will see not one but TWO stories on /. about it.
Sig Follows: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
Several weeks in a spaceship is going to be tedious.
Fuck, it's a good thing Columbus and crew had their iPhones with them to keep from getting bored.
Australia should send all their prisoners to Mars just to be ironic.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
I'd heard that prior to the explosion there was a guy wandering around the launch pad asking if people had seen his Note 7.
would you press the button to end all of humanity in exchange for a mystic vial of infinite happiness potion?
At this point, I'd press the button for a god damn Klondike bar.
Well duh, you're on Slashdot.
Go be fat, disgusting, lazy, undisciplined, uneducated and unhealthy somewhere else...like Mars. Since fat people don't do anything for the world in life, maybe they can contribute some small amount in death.
The ghosts of Winston Churchill, William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Ben Franklin, Babe Ruth, Alfred Hitchcock, Thomas Aquinas, Queen Victoria, and Theodore Roosevelt would like a word with you. The rest of us are mildly curious about what you as an individual have done "for the world".
You should change your name to "Hallmark"
You win for the corniest bullshit ever posted to slashdot. Grats