One way trip to Mars

[Cudzoziemiec]

The cultural possibilities up there will be far beyond the orbit of what we are used to here on Earth.
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[teethgrinder]

At closest approach, that would be good for about 580,000 points.

Where would you put the controls?

Yeah but pretty pointless if you do it as a DIY!!!

That'd be quite a large brevet card then!

Or you could argue that you're going up instead of accross, so would it just be an awfull lot of AAA points?

[mattc]

Or you could argue that you're going up instead of accross, so would it just be an awfull lot of AAA points?

Good thinking. That would solve the other problem - all the schedules I've seen exceed the 30kph limit by some margin.

[PeteB99]

Of course if they didn't tell you it was a one way trip

http://xkcd.com/695/

[TimO]

Of course if they didn't tell you it was a one way trip

http://xkcd.com/695/

Don't anthropomorphise computers Mars Rovers, they hate that.

[mrcharly-YHT]

But the real bigger was 'how to stop the crew killing each other'.

That's easy.

Just send geeks. Build ship so that for 23hours a day they are stuck in their rooms, unable to communicate except by computer. Food can be delivered automatically to rooms. Thin, square flat packages would be easiest to more automatically - so just have a large supply of frozen pizza and an oven in each room.

Geeks can survive in that environment almost indefinitely.

[Greenbank]

Geeks can survive in that environment almost indefinitely.

Not with such a high latency (and getting progressively worse) connection to the Internet.

[andygates]

Enough geeks to make a lanparty, then.  Local latency will be almost nil.  And schedule HAL to get updates from Steam...

...mind you, once you get there, a bunch of pallid tube-fed otaku are not the ideal rugged explorers.  Darn.

[Kim]

The could probably knock up some half-decent rovers, though.  Wait...

[perpetual dan]

Younger (and without Mrs Dan and kids) I'd have said yes without a pause.
Who can I kidnap invite along and will they treat me as their king?




There ... that's my chances blown  

[Adrian]

Younger (and without Mrs Dan and kids) I'd have said yes without a pause.
Who can I kidnap invite along and will they treat me as their king?




There ... that's my chances blown  

After departure is better for revealing that ambition

[gordon taylor]

I'd always assumed that the spaceships on long trips to colonise other planets would just be full of young women, with a selection of several thousand sperm samples in a small fridge.

No?

[Kim]

Seems reasonable.

Until the fridge breaks down and they have to send a ship to earth to capture a man for interplanetary breeding purposes... That movie never ends well.

[TimO]

Until the fridge breaks down and they have to send a ship to earth to capture a man for interplanetary breeding purposes... That movie never ends well.

"Death by snoo snoo..."

[Cudzoziemiec]

It's very funny actually Sex Mission (1984) - IMDb

[Pancho]

I'd always assumed that the spaceships on long trips to colonise other planets would just be full of young women, with a selection of several thousand sperm samples in a small fridge.

No?

Or a bucket of viagra and one lucky but very weary bloke.

[andygates]

Shallow gene pool. Lots of both is ideal. But we're not talking about building the whole colony from one one-way shot, surely?

One the Rugged Individualists had done their thing, I reckon there's a decent living to be had scratching around in red dirt.  Earth-that-was has grown too crowded...

[Diver300]

http://www.twistedmojo.com/la.html

[Manotea]

It's very funny actually Sex Mission (1984) - IMDb

Classic Sci-fi. A boy and his dog.

The book is better but a good effort.

"You don't know what love is."
"Love is what a boy feels for his dog."

[brodie]

Shallow gene pool. Lots of both is ideal. But we're not talking about building the whole colony from one one-way shot, surely?

One the Rugged Individualists had done their thing, I reckon there's a decent living to be had scratching around in red dirt.  Earth-that-was has grown too crowded...

Interesting experiment though I think.

With a random and small section of the population sent up and isolated - and facing different evolutionary pressures than we do on Earth could a new species evolve if they're isolated long enough?

(I suppose it would need too long as we don't reproduce quickly enough)

I'd go though - it would make a change

[mattc]

It's very funny actually Sex Mission (1984) - IMDb

Classic Sci-fi. A boy and his dog.

The book is better but a good effort.

"You don't know what love is."
"Love is what a boy feels for his dog."

I'm a sucker for Don Johnson movies - especially the early stuff. Turn off brain, kick back ...

Here's a challenge:
Think of a Mars Colony scenario that hasn't already appeared in published SF!

[mrcharly-YHT]

It's very funny actually Sex Mission (1984) - IMDb

Classic Sci-fi. A boy and his dog.

The book is better but a good effort.

"You don't know what love is."
"Love is what a boy feels for his dog."

They made it into a film? <looks at link>

ugh.

The dog in the book is something like a doberman, and smarter than the boy.

(click to show/hide)

As I recall, at the end, he kills the girl and feeds her to the dog, because its starving.

[Manotea]

It's very funny actually Sex Mission (1984) - IMDb

Classic Sci-fi. A boy and his dog.

The book is better but a good effort.

"You don't know what love is."
"Love is what a boy feels for his dog."

They made it into a film? <looks at link>

ugh.

The dog in the book is something like a doberman, and smarter than the boy.

(click to show/hide)

As I recall, at the end, he kills the girl and feeds her to the dog, because its starving.

I refer you to the quote above. Actually IIRC the line which closes the story is, "She said that I didn't know what love is. Love is what a boy feels for his dog". Unbelievably the boy is played by a young Don Johnson. LIke I said, a good effort for a low budget pre-CGI film. IMO.