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Comment Re:Why return mission? (Score 4, Interesting) 182

Why would they be expecting rescue? Rescue from what? Theyre colonists.
Read about expeditions to the North and South poles. Read about guys who climb mount Everest. If human history was left to people like you we'd still be living in primordial swamps

"im not climbing out onto land! its just fine here with these gills i've got"

Maybe dont put your name forward then. They can send someone with balls:

http://www.universetoday.com/14544/one-way-mission-to-mars-us-soldiers-will-go/

Comment Why return mission? (Score 5, Interesting) 182

i never understood why NASA insists on making the Mars trip a return mission. Why waste 3 years there and back stuck in the middle of space doing no science?

Just send a couple of guys there and make it a one way mission. They can start colonising immediately and start building stuff. Pioneers used to do that sort of thing all the time in the new world.

People place too much value on human life. If the Chinese send anyone theyd do it that way.

I bet NASA could find a million volunteers to do it and id be one of them. Id do it for a single week on Mars.

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