We can get more funding for this if we can convince the right people that there’s a bunch of people on Mars that need killin’.
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Having the brakes removed from your mission to Mars is a personal decision.
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and that distinguishes them from the people who settled Jamestown in 1609… exactly how?
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You mean aside from the point that the Jamestown settlers were only the latest in over a century of well-documented voyages from Europe to North America at that point? They may have made a lot of mistakes, but “attempting to cross the Atlantic before the technology to do so had been demonstrated” wasn’t one of them.
Either you’re not doing the sex thing right or I’m not doing the teeth brushing thing right. We should compare notes.
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What I was talking about is not how the activities are performed, but rather how they are perceived.
If hiding that you do some normal activity which most people do in some form helps you to feel like you are getting away with something especially outrageous, knock yourself out. It just seems like mass neurosis to me. I resent needing to hide a significant facet of my life because other people are hypocritically hung up about it. And (I never thought I’d find myself saying this, but) the people of Mars shouldn’t need to bring Earth prudishness with them.
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“The hard part will not be staying alive but staying sane.”
Um…no.
The hard part will be staying alive. Human physiology starts to do very strange things when we leave gravity, and we’re nowhere near solving those problems. Teams of people are working on the vision problems alone (because after a few months in space astronauts start having that problem). Not being able to see is a much bigger deal than missing your morning latte. This trip isn’t happening anytime soon.
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One is something you do once or twice a day and spit afterwards, and the other involves a toothbrush.
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After all the reality TV sex on Mars, you don’t think there’ll be a second voyage?
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More of a zygote.
Air, water and food ?
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I don’t know where they got their info, but I don’t plan on subsisting on freeze-dried food or no sex and have no clue why the author would think this would be the case? We’ll be able to grow all kinds of fresh food! And while it’s true that colonists are being discouraged from having children (and I personally think anyone going should volunteer for sterilization), but if you’ve read what Dr. Kraft has had to say in books like ‘Packing For Mars’ it’s clear that he thinks sex between colonists will be a necessary element of the mission and a factor in deciding who the colonists will be. Chemistry between candidates and within teams is important enough to dissolve entire teams if one person chooses or is required to step out of training. Sex will be integral for the mental health and bonding of the team. There is a reason why it has long been thought couples would be ideal for this sort of permanent mission. I have no intention of giving up sex on Mars, and I don’t think Mars One has any intention of it either!
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Oh man, we definitely need to convince some jihadists to announce that they plan to set up sharia law on Mars in 8 years. Space race 2! This time it’s existential…
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Maybe lower a radioisotope thermoelectric generator into the well?
Like stuck in a trailer park, in Minnesota.
Is there a contingency plan for when and if it turns into Pitcairn Island type situation?
I don’t understand the author’s insistence on a lack of sex. It’s like xe’s some refuge from a puritanical time or the Republican party. People have sex without reproduction all the damn time. It’s called condoms, oral sex, and/or pull out method.
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I was raised Catholic. Nice band name, but Pull Out Method doesn’t play too well with Thin White Rope.
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That’s what you call yours? 0_o
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You know, we have an entire continent on this planet which is profoundly easier to get to and vastly more habitable. I’ve said it before, we’ll colonize Mars when Antarctica is too crowded.
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