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> For those types of people risking death to do something extreme is fun and going to Mars would be both very high risk and extreme. Getting there would be. L
by apocalypstyx 8y ago
> For those types of people risking death to do something extreme is fun and going to Mars would be both very high risk and extreme.
Getting there would be. Living there would be constant danger plus tedium, the space equivalent of working on a farm barely making ends meet for the rest of your life. Such lives don't have enough dopamine hits to keep people of such dispositions around long.
- dragonwriter 8y agoGetting there would be lots of tedium, too.
- stcredzero 8y agoOne could try to turn it into a nonstop zero-G orgy. But that would become lots of tedium too.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoReal life in the West is an unending stream of tedium, ocassionally interrupted by something exciting on TV. Humans, somehow, manage.
- peterlk 8y ago> Living there would be constant danger plus tedium, the space equivalent of working on a farm barely making ends meet for the rest of your life. Such lives don't have enough dopamine hits to keep people of such dispositions around long. Training for ultra-marathons (and running them) is painful and tedious. The thing that people need are goals. For example "survive on Mars for 2 months". Then the next person will come along and say "I bet I can do in for 3". Then 6, then 12. And if enough people do it, suddenly you have a "base camp" from which to run your extreme survival competitions. The dopamine drip will last a long time. Eventually, someone will fall in love with Mars in the same way they fall in love with Everest or El Capitan, or whatever, and then a colony can start. Humans are crazy, and a subset of us enjoy pushing past the boundaries merely to prove that it is possible to ourselves. To prove that we have no limits. I think those people should be given every opportunity that humanity can afford to give them to push the limits of human capability.