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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.)
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:00:13 AM EST
[#1]
Sadly, it's BS.  We could've sent Obama.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:01:30 AM EST
[#2]
provided there was a crew of curvy brunnettes I could possibly dig it
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:05:25 AM EST
[#3]
A dog

Nothing could be worse then being stuck in space with a woman.  Pie monopoly=hell on earth mars
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:07:00 AM EST
[#4]
So how does this help with Muslim Middle Eastern Liberal outreach?
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:10:16 AM EST
[#5]
Quoted: has received £1million funding to start work on the project.



what are we going to do with fake British money

Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:10:44 AM EST
[#6]
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.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:14:07 AM EST
[#7]
Only £1,000,000?
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:15:33 AM EST
[#8]
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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...

Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:16:42 AM EST
[#9]
I think using the term "Starship" for transporting some guys to Mars is overreaching a bit.

Sounds like something from a politician.


Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:16:58 AM EST
[#10]
We can't even get back to the moon, how the fuck are we going to support a colony on mars.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:17:09 AM EST
[#11]
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Only £1,000,000?


That won't be enough to pay the artist to come up with the mission patch.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:17:22 AM EST
[#12]



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.



 
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:18:11 AM EST
[#13]
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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".
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:28:26 AM EST
[#14]
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.
 


Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:32:02 AM EST
[#15]
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."
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:32:05 AM EST
[#16]
Quoted:
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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".


Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:58:29 AM EST
[#17]
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.



 
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:03:23 AM EST
[#18]
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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.


Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:06:38 AM EST
[#19]
Quoted:
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....."
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:08:13 AM EST
[#20]



Quoted:



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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.

 




http://geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2009/11/2009-11-03-up_dogs_badge.jpg






 
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:09:15 AM EST
[#21]
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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.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:11:22 AM EST
[#22]
Quoted:
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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
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:31:09 AM EST
[#23]




Quoted:

We can't even get back to the moon, how the fuck are we going to support a colony on mars.


+1111111111111

Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:36:16 AM EST
[#24]
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.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:45:07 AM EST
[#25]
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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!
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:46:58 AM EST
[#26]
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.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:49:38 AM EST
[#27]
Quoted:
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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.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:54:02 AM EST
[#28]
please send astronut obama reid and pelosi   and spawn a new race of brainless idiots
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:54:17 AM EST
[#29]



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?  




 
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:55:55 AM EST
[#30]





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".
 
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:00:55 AM EST
[#31]
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.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:05:25 AM EST
[#32]
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:07:32 AM EST
[#33]



"Liberate.....me.......inferis........"
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:07:53 AM EST
[#34]
Shit only takes two weeks....

Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:12:11 AM EST
[#35]
Quoted:
http://popcultureninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/eventhor1.jpg


"Liberate.....me.......inferis........"


"Where we are going, we wont need eyes to see!"
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:13:55 AM EST
[#36]
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...
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:18:09 AM EST
[#37]
I'll take Kim Kardashian as my co pilot.

And she's into that back door action when we get tired of missionary
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:19:36 AM EST
[#38]
Quoted:

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?  




 


My question is why wouldn't we send all of them?  (except Aimless)
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:21:11 AM EST
[#39]
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


Squirrel !!!
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:26:03 AM EST
[#40]
Most of the people I would want to bring along are passed on.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:55:59 AM EST
[#41]
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:57:15 AM EST
[#42]
WHERE DO I SIGN UP?
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 9:00:35 AM EST
[#43]
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....
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 9:17:33 AM EST
[#44]



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...



 
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 6:46:11 PM EST
[#45]
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.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 7:01:40 PM EST
[#46]


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.



Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:21:13 PM EST
[#47]
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.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:28:18 PM EST
[#48]




Quoted:

provided there was a crew of curvy brunnettes I could possibly dig it


What if it was just Mary Ann and Ginger?

Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:29:56 PM EST
[#49]
I'd do it. Sign me up.

First man on Mars will be immortal in that his name will be known by all.
Link Posted: 10/27/2010 8:33:01 PM EST
[#50]
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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