nizo's Journal: Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes

So who wants to be a Martian pioneer? Take the test and find out if you have what it takes!

Slashdot is strange today...

[Corporate Troll]

Today it's supposed to be pink and we should talk about ponies! *sigh* I must be getting old.

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[nizo]

I'm just happy I am a perfect candidate for the virgle Mars mission! :-)

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[Corporate Troll]

Wow! So am I! I guess, we'll finally meet each other IRL on the spaceship, eh?

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[Shadow Wrought]

I'd be right there with you guys: if it hadn't told me I was essentially boring, easily replaceable wetware. I'm cool with that though, because I really would go nuts after 3 months of algae;-)

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[Scott Lockwood]

Damn.

Well, you're distressingly normal and could conceivably adjust to life as a deep space pioneer, though we recommend instead that you leave the Mars missions to the serious whack jobs who scored over 130 and instead finish year 3 of law school, tuck your toddler into bed, design Web 2.0 applications, run for Congress or do whatever other normal, healthy, middle-of-the-road thing you're currently doing with your normal, healthy, middle-of-the-road life. If you're determined to give Virgle a try, though,

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[queenofthe1ring]

ditto.

Meh, I don't really like flying anyways.

Actually, I gave that same response when one of the physics professors at the meet and greet luncheon I went to before college asked me if I was excited that I might the first woman on Mars. (I guess that's what physicists think of when they hear someone is interested in astronomy. Now that I have studied some physics, I'm not sure I would trust them to get me to Mars safely anyways.) They were kind of flabbergasted at my response.

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[nizo]

Like most tests I take I answered some of the questions the way I figured I should answer though, for whatever that is worth.

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[plover]

It would be really, really bad to answer this test "the way you should" instead of how you honestly feel. If deep down you aren't cut out for the true colonist lifestyle, and you essentially cut yourself off from the rest of humanity for the rest of your life (apart from the odd delayed email or two from the friends you left behind) you'd go absolutely batshit insane and be of no use to the rest of the colonists.

You can't even play counterstrike because of the 40 minute lag. And you'd never get another

Checklist for Mars Mission

[WillAffleckUW]

1. Self-correcting DNA with shielded bone marrow oocytes and radiation-hardened stem cells - check.
2. Increased lung capacity from generations of Afflecks, Whitesells, Holmes, and Asch progenitors working in the mines - check.
3. Supply of pink ponies - check.

OK, Ready to go!

Missing Choices

[bettiwettiwoo]

Surely, the answers to questions 10 & 11 are missing 'Sex' as a choice?! (And it would have been handy in #9 as well.)

Funny you should bring this up

[smooth wombat]

Like a few above me, I'm distressingly normal (despite my efforts to skew the results) but in all honesty, yes, I would LOVE to go to Mars. I was just thinking about this the other day when I was watching a Discovery show on the Huygens probe landing on Titan.

Somewhere in the show they mentioned about Mars and the time it would take to get there, how long one would be marooned and so forth. My first thought was, "When can I leave?"

To be the first human on Mars, to trip the light fantastic under the orange

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[nizo]

I would love to go too, but I suspect that my fellow shipmates would toss me out an airlock after the first week :-D