Comments on: Mars One (Way Ticket To The Afterlife).

By: depth386

depth386 — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 04:29:33 +0000

To not have a return vehicle for *when* (not if) things go wrong is unthinkable. Every enclosed habitat sooner or later has a problem with the micro-organisms, oxygen replenishment, waste processing, food production, something. I haven’t even bothered to look at the Mars One plan in detail, so now that you’ve brought up the solar panel thing I find it even more laughable.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:44:44 +0000

I didn’t even know that Kessler Syndrome was the name for Kessler Syndrome until I played Endless Space. Trufax.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:44:10 +0000

I do have some hope that we’ll see a government-funded return to the Moon or even a trip to Mars in my lifetime — it seems rather unreasonable that nobody would even make the attempt over the next half-century. On the other hand the world will probably deteriorate into a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic wasteland by then, so perhaps not.

By: Gap

Gap — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:20 +0000

We just need a good old space war to drive government funding into manned spaceflight. Provided we don’t get Kessler Syndrome in the process. Oh, and granted that this doesn’t prevent Mars from being a desolate wasteland ages away from anywhere.

By: number2301

number2301 — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:59:00 +0000

Of course you’re right, but I’ll still be keenly following the progress of Mars one, just in case it does work out. And you know, the alternative that we’ve wasted 50 years of manned space exploration time and have no foreseeable plan to rectify that is just too depressing.

By: jiiiiim

jiiiiim — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:18:19 +0000

The chaaances of aaanything going to Maaars, are a million to one, he saaaid