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Posted: 12/26/2015 2:51:47 PM EDT
[#1]
I'd go in a NY minute.
If I get to choose my travel partner. After all, need somebody to 'pass the time' with.  |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 2:56:08 PM EDT
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If we could leave tomorrow, I'm ready and willing@75%.
2030s? By then I will have visited it; and pretty much everywhere else. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 2:59:36 PM EDT
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Absolutely. You can die in your sleep wearing a diper someday or you can go out on a spaceship.
We are all dying sometime. I rather still have my faculties when I go out. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:00:42 PM EDT
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Unless you can stay busy and mentally active, they will spend a lot of time sleeping.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:02:17 PM EDT
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If I were 20 years younger and unmarried, sure.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:04:30 PM EDT
[#6]
What are the gun laws on Mars?
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:15:35 PM EDT
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I would go as part of a scientific expedition but not as a pioneer. Trying to eak out a miserable existence on a cold dead rock sounds worse than even living in Chicago.
Anyway, NASA isn't going to be going anywhere if we keep electing socialist scumbags. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:24:16 PM EDT
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Get your ass to Mars. I would, if I didn't have 5 kids to feed. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:32:32 PM EDT
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Here's a new question. Would you go to Mars and never come back to Earth if there was a functioning colony there? Like a permanent move.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:41:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It'll be a gun free zone Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I would in ten years, if I get to bring my own sidearm. It'll be a gun free zone Nah.   |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:43:50 PM EDT
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Read the book. It's fucking amazing compared to the movie. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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In the words of Mark Watney: You of out of your fucking mind? Just saw that the other day. Makes me not want to go to Mars.  +1. Book was awesome. Not even going to waste the money or time on the movie. Im getting tired of Hollywood fucking up great stories. I wish they'd stop leeching off the book industry to make up for their lack of talent. Now that I think about it, Hollywood is FSA. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:44:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I would, if I didn't have 5 kids to feed. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Get your ass to Mars. I would, if I didn't have 5 kids to feed. ETA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkcuV0_xt-w |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:45:11 PM EDT
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I'd go just to get away from the FSA.....I have a feeling that there would be no FSA on Mars?
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:46:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: +1. Book was awesome. Not even going to waste the money or time on the movie. Im getting tired of Hollywood fucking up great stories. I wish they'd stop leeching off the book industry to make up for their lack of talent. Now that I think about it, Hollywood is FSA. Quote HistoryQuoted: +1. Book was awesome. Not even going to waste the money or time on the movie. Im getting tired of Hollywood fucking up great stories. I wish they'd stop leeching off the book industry to make up for their lack of talent. Now that I think about it, Hollywood is FSA. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:49:24 PM EDT
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Unless you can stay busy and mentally active, they will spend a lot of time sleepingmasturbating. 
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:51:15 PM EDT
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I would, if I didn't have 5 kids to feed. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Get your ass to Mars. I would, if I didn't have 5 kids to feed. The government will take care of them ........................ 
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:53:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Here's a new question. Would you go to Mars and never come back to Earth if there was a functioning colony there? Like a permanent move. Yes. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:54:36 PM EDT
[#18]
Mars would be better than Uranus.
I doubt I will be around when any man sets foot on Mars. Hell I just hoping we get back to the moon in my lifetime. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:54:41 PM EDT
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I'm too old now, but I'd have gone in a heartbeat when I was younger. Incidentally, I watched 'The Martian' last night. Good flick. 
I'm old too. It's the best time! You have a world of experience, you don't get overly excited, you remain cool, calm, and collected when everyone else is losing their fucking minds, you just don't GAF anymore.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:54:59 PM EDT
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Nope, I like the blues, greens and browns of this place too much.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 3:56:05 PM EDT
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I was seven years old when the Ruskies sent Sputnik into orbit in 1957, and a sophomore in college when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon 12 years later.
Mars was the next logical step, and IMHO, it's already about thirty years too late in coming. Even at age 65, I'd leave tomorrow, if they'd have me.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:02:59 PM EDT
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Here's a new question. Would you go to Mars and never come back to Earth if there was a functioning colony there? Like a permanent move. Are we talking about some futurist dome cover area that has grass, fake blue skies, swimming pools and seasons and in order to explore Mars you put on a spacesuit and go out of the dome? I would consider that. Going and living in a tube or box then no. Visit sure, not permanent. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:05:58 PM EDT
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Is this a bonus question to the "How far would you travel for pie?" pole?
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:06:02 PM EDT
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+1. Book was awesome. Not even going to waste the money or time on the movie. Im getting tired of Hollywood fucking up great stories. I wish they'd stop leeching off the book industry to make up for their lack of talent. Now that I think about it, Hollywood is FSA. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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In the words of Mark Watney: You of out of your fucking mind? Just saw that the other day. Makes me not want to go to Mars. +1. Book was awesome. Not even going to waste the money or time on the movie. Im getting tired of Hollywood fucking up great stories. I wish they'd stop leeching off the book industry to make up for their lack of talent. Now that I think about it, Hollywood is FSA. Would the audiobook be just as good as the book? I got Star Wars The Force Awakens audiobook(It already goes into more detail than the movie) Amazon/Audible is giving away two books with a trial that you can keep
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:08:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Would the audiobook be just as good as the book? I got Star Wars The Force Awakens audiobook(It already goes into more detail than the movie) Amazon/Audible is giving away two books with a trial that you can keep Quote HistoryQuoted: Would the audiobook be just as good as the book? I got Star Wars The Force Awakens audiobook(It already goes into more detail than the movie) Amazon/Audible is giving away two books with a trial that you can keep |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:13:35 PM EDT
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I have over 100 audio books. That one is tied for best narration with one other IMHO. Go for it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Would the audiobook be just as good as the book? I got Star Wars The Force Awakens audiobook(It already goes into more detail than the movie) Amazon/Audible is giving away two books with a trial that you can keep Thanks.. Well I guess that is the two free books... |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:15:34 PM EDT
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I won't even go to Mexico |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:23:09 PM EDT
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They didn't really screw it up, they did as good of a job as they could with 2 hours to work with. It should have been a 24 episode HBO miniseries. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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+1. Book was awesome. Not even going to waste the money or time on the movie. Im getting tired of Hollywood fucking up great stories. I wish they'd stop leeching off the book industry to make up for their lack of talent. Now that I think about it, Hollywood is FSA. Youre probably right. But still, I don't want to ruin my mental depiction of that story. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:38:26 PM EDT
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Would not be even close to being possible with today's technology. I doubt even in a hundred years it could be done. Too many people watch crap science fantasy and think it's real. May as well ask is you want to live in Unicorn land with the magic fairies.
Edit - I was thinking more in the way of a colony being impossible. Just a round trip may be possible in say 50 years or so. NASA likes funding though, so they say 20 years. 
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:47:13 PM EDT
[#30]
I watched The Martian, so I would just make sure I brought a spare potato with me in case.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:51:41 PM EDT
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I think it would tug at the the adventure parts of us. How many people can say they've been to Mars? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Would not go if there was a 100% success rate. What is so special about Mars? -there are barren red deserts right here on Earth if that is the desired landscape. According to Senator Jackson, Neil Armstrong planted a flag there.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 4:55:15 PM EDT
[#32]
Sure would.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 5:17:26 PM EDT
[#33]
No. Everything I love is here. Mars is just a gigantic fucking rock.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 5:19:26 PM EDT
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Where do I sign up?
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Posted: 12/26/2015 5:25:46 PM EDT
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I would, but I'm not sure there is sufficient political will to invite white, Christian males on this outing.
We've ruined this planet with individual rights, science and capitalism. Only affirmative action candidates and Muslims who found out they invented the the number zero 2000 years ago can properly colonize Mars. I'll stay home and help support the welfare effort. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 6:33:00 PM EDT
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sure, I've got nothing holding me here |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 6:38:38 PM EDT
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Here's a new question. Would you go to Mars and never come back to Earth if there was a functioning colony there? Like a permanent move. sure why not |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 6:51:40 PM EDT
[#38]
Maybe 20 years ago but now I am too old to waste time watching the Martian desert. At this stage in my life I have things I need to check off my bucket list.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 6:55:29 PM EDT
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It'd be boring as hell, it's ALL desert there. So as just a casual space traveler, hell no. But I'm sure a geologist would be in heaven on Mars.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 6:57:08 PM EDT
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No, but there's a long list of people I'd like to send. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 6:57:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No. No water, no trees, no gentle breeze, no hunting, no fishing. What's the appeal? Yeah, I'm with you there. It'd be like going out to a very very remote desert on Earth, except you have to wear a space suit and you have no protection from cosmic radiation. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 7:00:21 PM EDT
[#42]
2030's?
I'll be old, so why not. I wouldn't mind ending the story of my life with an exclamation mark. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 7:02:20 PM EDT
[#43]
Are there jack rabbits, beer and .22lr available on Mars?
Can I take my dog? Will everybody leave me the fuck alone? If all these are affirmative, then I'm in. 
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Posted: 12/26/2015 7:11:51 PM EDT
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I would in ten years, if I get to bring my own sidearm. It'll be a gun free zone Nah. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/18/20/5c/18205c76b268b5ad83032d0ef83459ab.jpg
Thank you for posting that. SAAB! And to answer the question, yes, but 10% risk of death is about the highest risk I'd take. (NASA wouldn't do it if it was that high anyway... they top out around 2-3% for explorer class missions). |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 9:28:22 PM EDT
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I'd leave tomorrow, no questions asked.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 9:29:59 PM EDT
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I'd leave tomorrow, no questions asked.
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Posted: 12/26/2015 10:45:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As long as there are no liberals allowed. Someone had to say it!  |
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Posted: 12/27/2015 1:07:21 AM EDT
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Fuck yea. Where would we be without men like Lewis and Clarke Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yes, I would go in a heart beat. Fuck yea. Where would we be without men like Lewis and Clarke To go somewhere no one has gone before, I think thats a core American/Western value. Edmund Hillary / Tenzing Norgay Roald Amundsen and his crew. Robert Peary / Matthew Henson Don Walsh / Jacques Piccard Neil Armstrong / Buzz Aldrin Why? Because its there. |
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Posted: 12/27/2015 1:10:52 AM EDT
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Here's a new question. Would you go to Mars and never come back to Earth if there was a functioning colony there? Like a permanent move. Tough one there. I'd have to really think it over, but I would lean towards yes. |
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Posted: 12/27/2015 1:11:11 AM EDT
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Absolutely. You can die in your sleep wearing a diper someday or you can go out on a spaceship. We are all dying sometime. I rather still have my faculties when I go out. Astronauts wear diapers. |
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