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First, a reply to your original post : > In a box, on a dead planet, for life. Sign me up, right now!!! > Can we provide a reasonable quality of life for col

by guylhem 14y ago

First, a reply to your original post : > In a box, on a dead planet, for life. Sign me up, right now!!! > Can we provide a reasonable quality of life for colonists? I don't care. I would need a) air+water b) food c) a place to sleep d) tools to colonize the planet - like create more living space. For quality of life, if I can get e) book or movies or even f) internet access, great! If I can't that's not a dealbreaker. So, sign me up!!

aardvark179 14y ago
I do admire this sort of enthusiasm, but I also wonder if it can survive such a mission. However we don't need to send a mission to Mars to find out, and if anybody truly wants to send people to Mars on anything other than short term suicide mission then we really need to do a lot more research in this area. Build enclosed isolated environments with limited space, resources and comms, and see how teams get on over long time periods if they believe there is no way out. I'm not convinced that our future as flesh and blood humans is in space, or even on any of the other planets in our solar system, but if we're going to try then we cannot focus solely on the hard technical challenges.
- guylhem 14y ago
  I'm totally motivated and committed to Mars. Would that commitment survive in a mission? IMHO, totally because I'd even say yes to a one-way trip with a time limit (ie your "life support system will stop working in 3 years") But the idea of an enclosed isolated test environment just doesn't raise the same kind of enthusiasm in me. Unless there are side benefits (like freedom - ie build a new country from scratch in the middle of say Antarctica!!) I don't know why, but I really don't feel like taking part in the experience. I guess it's all about selfishness - being on Mars matches my selfish motives. Doing a 10 years test somewhere in a controlled bunker on earth, a sacrifice for the next team who might do the same on real Mars??? I'll pass the opportunity. That makes me wonder if it would be a good thing to run such an experiment, considering the volunteers would certainly be different (in their reason and personalities) from the ones who would volunteer for a real Mars mission.

by guylhem 14y ago

aardvark179 14y ago

I do admire this sort of enthusiasm, but I also wonder if it can survive such a mission. However we don't need to send a mission to Mars to find out, and if anybody truly wants to send people to Mars on anything other than short term suicide mission then we really need to do a lot more research in this area. Build enclosed isolated environments with limited space, resources and comms, and see how teams get on over long time periods if they believe there is no way out. I'm not convinced that our future as flesh and blood humans is in space, or even on any of the other planets in our solar system, but if we're going to try then we cannot focus solely on the hard technical challenges.

guylhem 14y ago
I'm totally motivated and committed to Mars. Would that commitment survive in a mission? IMHO, totally because I'd even say yes to a one-way trip with a time limit (ie your "life support system will stop working in 3 years") But the idea of an enclosed isolated test environment just doesn't raise the same kind of enthusiasm in me. Unless there are side benefits (like freedom - ie build a new country from scratch in the middle of say Antarctica!!) I don't know why, but I really don't feel like taking part in the experience. I guess it's all about selfishness - being on Mars matches my selfish motives. Doing a 10 years test somewhere in a controlled bunker on earth, a sacrifice for the next team who might do the same on real Mars??? I'll pass the opportunity. That makes me wonder if it would be a good thing to run such an experiment, considering the volunteers would certainly be different (in their reason and personalities) from the ones who would volunteer for a real Mars mission.