[sozen]

Basically Nasa made and announcement on The Hundred Year Starship Project, a project designed to be a one-way ticket to mars for settlement.

As i said its a 1 way ticket, you cant return to earth ever because you wont live long enough. However you would go there to set up settlements to prepare mars hopefully to be another home to us earthlings

Would you go?

personally i would go, i have always wanted too ever since i heard that people within my age group are going to be the some of the first people to go to mars. Hopefully i will be able to keep up with anime though :S

 

(Oct. 27) -- We are going to Mars and not coming back.

At a recent event in San Francisco, NASA Ames Research Center Director Pete Worden introduced the Hundred Year Starship initiative, a project to embark on a one-way mission from Earth to Mars by 2030 and permanently settle the red planet.

"The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds," Worden said. "Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars and get fired."

One of NASA's main research centers has already received approximately $1.5 million to being working on the project -- a fine sum of money but space peanuts compared with what is required. Luckily, private investors like Google co-founder Larry Page are interested in contributing. Worden, who says that the project will cost an estimated $10 billion, described his conversation with a seldom stingy Page.

"His response was, 'Can you get it down to $1 [billion] or $2 billion?' So now we're starting to get a little argument over the price," said Worden.

So if you are a billionaire and interested in contributing to this initiative, you can probably get a hold of Worden's phone number.

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A one-way ticket to Mars is a heavily debated resolution to concerns involving returning astronauts to Earth, and even more often the cost of doing so. Writing for The New York Times, Lawrence Krauss asked the question, "Why are we so interested in bringing the Mars astronauts home again?" more than a year ago. Astronauts might have supplies periodically sent, but they would also be expected to become generally self-sufficient.

The Mars initiative is in many respects the direct opposite of a Russian initiative to simulate the experience of visiting the red planet without ever leaving our green one (though clearly, it is an advisable prerequisite for any sort of eventual extraterrestrial colonization mission). The six participating scientists, stationed in a Moscow warehouse, are in month six of the 18-month experiment that replicates every aspect of a mission to Mars, set aside the lack of gravity.

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[Darkchao45]

This sounds like srs business so I moved it here. To answer your question, no hell no! lol
But its still a cool thing NASA is trying to do...
Colonization ftw!

[Avamo]

Yes. A chance to make my dreams come true!

[Visharr]

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makes me think about this movies

[The_forgotten_fragment]

Very good plan sounds like good fun but, Imma say No. Im not going anywhere unless i hav a chance to hightail it out of where every i am when things start going to hell

[leo_ck]

If all of the ppl that are boarding this ride is female and i'm the only male then hell i'll go man... It'll be like nagasarete airantou (anime for those that don't know).... Heh... perfect harem...

[gokusamir]

hmmm well i would wanna go but then live there forever not marrying no kids etc. no not something for me

[shippuuden]

that would have to be a helllls no. That harem part sounds mighty tempting on the other hand though

[digritz]

Yea shhuurree there's going to be one way tickets to Mars. Just like back in the 70's we all thought there would be flying cars long before 2010......................aanny day now.......yep aanny day.

The real question should be what would you sacrifice to stand on another world? Mars really doesn't hold much interest for me. But if I could set foot on some new world, say a planet orbiting a binary star system. To look up and see two suns, now that would be worth any sacrifice. Even if it was a significantly shortened life span.

[Toxie]

No way in hell for me.. As much it sounds interesting, i wouldn't want to go there ever, no watter what they "offer" :<