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Posted: 10/27/2010 5:51:54 AM EST
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324192/Nasa-plan-Hundred-Year-Starship––mission-astronauts-Mars-leave-forever.html
Nasa is planning an audacious mission to send a manned spacecraft on a one-way trip to permanently settle on other planets.
The ambitious idea is known as the Hundred Years Starship and would send astronauts to colonise planets like Mars, knowing they could never come home. NASA Ames Director Pete Worden revealed that one of NASA’s main research centres, Ames Research Centre, has received £1million funding to start work on the project. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324192/Nasa-plan-Hundred-Year-Starship––mission-astronauts-Mars-leave-forever.html#ixzz13ZSbDaIl If you could pick your co-pilot would you volunteer? Who would you pick (assuming you didn't have to pick your wife/girlfriend/S.O.) |
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provided there was a crew of curvy brunnettes I could possibly dig it
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A dog
Nothing could be worse then being stuck in space with a woman. Pie monopoly=hell on earth mars |
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So how does this help with Muslim Middle Eastern Liberal outreach?
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Quoted: has received £1million funding to start work on the project.
what are we going to do with fake British money |
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A million bucks?
They will burn through that like trailer trash at Walmart on Black Friday. What we will get, is a 2 page report indicating they need more money. |
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would send astronauts to colonise planets like Mars, knowing they could never come home. So it would be like colonizing Australia all over again... |
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I think using the term "Starship" for transporting some guys to Mars is overreaching a bit.
Sounds like something from a politician. |
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We can't even get back to the moon, how the fuck are we going to support a colony on mars.
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Only £1,000,000? That won't be enough to pay the artist to come up with the mission patch. |
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Quoted: A dog Nothing could be worse then being stuck in space with a woman. Pie monopoly=hell on earth mars Hell yeah. Then raise a civilization of dogs and have them worship you as a god. |
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Only £1,000,000? That's just enough to get a team together for one day so they can determine, "That's a bad idea". |
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Early in the planning for the moon shot they considered making it a one way trip. The idea was "Get the astronauts there, and we'll figure out how to get them home later."
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Only £1,000,000? That's just enough to get a team together for one day so they can determine, "That's a bad idea". |
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Image if you could terraform 10 acres / person. This could be one hell of a potential bug out shelter.
If the colony could continue to terraform to give 10 acres per person, and if you breed at an aggressive rate (1 kid per 3 years of childbearing years). Starting with 10 women could easily give you a population of 5-10,000 in 100 years. –– it would only take a handful of harems to make a pretty populated mars. |
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Starting with 10 women could easily give you a population of 5-10,000 hairless one-eyed inbred idiots in 100 years. |
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Early in the planning for the moon shot they considered making it a one way trip. The idea was "Get the astronauts there, and we'll figure out how to get them home later." Why can I so easily picture a 60's NASA geek with a crew cut & pocket protector answering a VERY pissed off Air Force General why we can't bring his astronauts home that were sitting on the moon with a "Well we're still working on that....." |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: A dog Nothing could be worse then being stuck in space with a woman. Pie monopoly=hell on earth mars Hell yeah. Then raise a civilization of dogs and have them worship you as a god. http://geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2009/11/2009-11-03-up_dogs_badge.jpg |
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Image if you could terraform 10 acres / person. This could be one hell of a potential bug out shelter. If the colony could continue to terraform to give 10 acres per person, and if you breed at an aggressive rate (1 kid per 3 years of childbearing years). Starting with 10 women could easily give you a population of 5-10,000 in 100 years. –– it would only take a handful of harems to make a pretty populated mars. Yup...10,000 fkn tards, that's a hell of an idea. |
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Image if you could terraform 10 acres / person. This could be one hell of a potential bug out shelter. If the colony could continue to terraform to give 10 acres per person, and if you breed at an aggressive rate (1 kid per 3 years of childbearing years). Starting with 10 women could easily give you a population of 5-10,000 in 100 years. –– it would only take a handful of harems to make a pretty populated mars. Yup...10,000 fkn tards, that's a hell of an idea. Just raid a sperm bank and turkey baste as needed to keep gene pool deep |
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Quoted: We can't even get back to the moon, how the fuck are we going to support a colony on mars. +1111111111111 |
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NASA would not "leave" them there.
Some vital piece of sub-contracted equipment would fail 2 years in, everyone dies - we spend the next 30 seconds wondering what happened before flipping over to the next season of Dancing with Disabled Immigrants and Ultimate Midget Championship PPV events. |
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NASA would not "leave" them there. Some vital piece of sub-contracted equipment would fail 2 years in, everyone dies - we spend the next 30 seconds wondering what happened before flipping over to the next season of Dancing with Disabled Immigrants and Ultimate Midget Championship PPV events. this! and its a given, if the british are involved. Think Lucas! shudder! and everythign will leak oil.. even the computer that dont let there smoke out! |
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In before the human rights violations and law suits by kids born there who don't want to live on the giant red dust planet.
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Starting with 10 women could easily give you a population of 5-10,000 hairless one-eyed inbred idiots in 100 years. I think I remember reading that it was something like a 160 person population that would be needed to provide enough genetic diversity to sustain 1000 years of breeding...lemme see if I can find the actual numbers. Moore suggests that 150-180 initial inhabitants would be optimal to insure and sustain a healthy population for more than 20 centuries without significant inbreeding
Obviously didn't do the research myself, so if you disagree, take it up w/ Moore. |
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please send astronut obama reid and pelosi and spawn a new race of brainless idiots
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Quoted: In before the human rights violations and law suits by kids born there who don't want to live on the giant red dust planet. Why in fuck would we send a lawyer to Mars? |
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Quoted: We can't even get back to the moon, how the fuck are we going to support a colony on mars. The Pelosi/Obama Plan: "We have to send them, before we learn how to bring them back". |
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Not a bad idea actually.
Once they get there after trillions of government-sponsored research and expenditures, they simply announce "Mars is all oil and gold under the dust". Private enterprise will have a follow up mission there in three weeks. |
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Not a bad idea actually. Once they get there after trillions of government-sponsored research and expenditures, they simply announce "Mars is all oil and gold under the dust". Private enterprise will have a follow up mission there in three weeks. Perfect! I would support such a plan. |
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http://popcultureninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/eventhor1.jpg "Liberate.....me.......inferis........" "Where we are going, we wont need eyes to see!" |
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http://popcultureninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/eventhor1.jpg "Liberate.....me.......inferis........" "Where we are going, we wont need eyes to see!" I first watched that movie under the assumption that it was of the sci-fi genre. How wrong I was... |
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I'll take Kim Kardashian as my co pilot.
And she's into that back door action when we get tired of missionary |
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In before the human rights violations and law suits by kids born there who don't want to live on the giant red dust planet. Why in fuck would we send a lawyer to Mars? My question is why wouldn't we send all of them? (except Aimless) |
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A dog Nothing could be worse then being stuck in space with a woman. Pie monopoly=hell on earth mars Hell yeah. Then raise a civilization of dogs and have them worship you as a god. http://geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2009/11/2009-11-03-up_dogs_badge.jpg Squirrel !!! |
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Most of the people I would want to bring along are passed on.
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If there is water, you can sustain life.........hell ya, I would go....my people always thrived on the frontier......whats the worse that could happen? Death...big deal....
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: http://popcultureninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/eventhor1.jpg "Liberate.....me.......inferis........" "Where we are going, we wont need eyes to see!" I first watched that movie under the assumption that it was of the sci-fi genre. How wrong I was... I made that mistake, and took my younger sister along, erps... "IT" was more impressionable on her, though... |
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What if they sent 3 males and 1 female?
If they sent 4 males would they need to be all gay? I think this is a wonderful idea. This country needs to grab its balls and go exploring. |
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The last frontier. My family came to the New World in 1647. Hell yeah I'd go and just like them I'd be in search of real freedom again. |
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Since money seems to be one of the biggest obstacles, NASA needs to recruit corporate sponsors, and then allow these sponsors to exploit the colonization project for their own monetary gain. For example, a major TV network sponsor could do TV shows from Mars that showcased the hostile climate and reduced gravity ("Survivor Mars", "Monday Night Martian Football", "Martian NASCAR Racing", "Championship Martian Rodeo Bullriding").
In essence, a colony on Mars could have a useful, profitable purpose long before any means of transporting people or materials back to Earth was developed: Its inhabitants could serve as entertainment for the rest of us. |
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Quoted: provided there was a crew of curvy brunnettes I could possibly dig it What if it was just Mary Ann and Ginger? |
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I'd do it. Sign me up.
First man on Mars will be immortal in that his name will be known by all. |
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I would go. I would choose a female olympic shooter to go with me (preferably a hot one). In 1000 years our offspring would return to Earth to crush the inhabitants underfoot and take back what is rightfully theirs.
No force on Earth could stand up to the crazy marksmanship skillz of this future force of men and three-titted women that also happen to have all the latest uber tacticool gear. |
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