This news item is so two thousand and late. Well, actually it's from December last year. When I was reading the previous article on that crystal, this one showed up and I remembered how stunned I had felt last year hearing about these crazy people.
A Dutch company will organise a trip for 4 people to planet Mars. A one-way trip.
The technology for a return flight doesn't exist -- there's no Kennedy Space Center launch pad over there! -- and having a one-way trip greatly reduces costs, the company has said.
It greatly reduces costs, there you have it.
A previous unmanned Mars mission is slated for 2018. This way, the company in charge wants to demonstrate the possibility of living on Mars. One of the experiments they will conduct to assure that condition will be, for example, the synthesis of liquid water on Mars, obviously an indispensable requirement for humans to survive. If everything goes right with the experiments and they manage to fund the project, 2025 is a ballpark estimation for the date of the actual trip. The way they plan to resolve the financial aspect is quite interesting, though. They will hold some kind of Big Brother show, a live stream from Mars, so we can know if Britney did weird things with an alien during night and that kind of stuff. The objective is to send more new people to the lander every two years. That is a good idea, I think, because hanging around the rest of your life with the same 3 people you didn't choose initially as your friends, no, you're rather forced to live by their side. AND THAT ON MARS. On the other side... If you're volunteering for going to Mars for the rest of your life... I guess there must be a very few things that you actually fear o can't adapt to.
And that's the point that I wanted to reach... Who are those 200,000 people that want to go to Mars for the rest of their life? I saw a report on TV when the news was still, well, "new" and I can tell you: all kinds of people. Some of them are quite young and they're just looking for a literally pioneering adventure, others are older ones or people suffering from certain diseases that reduce their life expectancy and they simply want to make something special of the last years they still have. And honestly - whatever your reasons you have to be like REALLY crazy to subscribe on that mission - I do respect those people. A lot. Because I would never be able to leave my life on Earth behind... forever.
In addition to that, I think this mission provides a huge leeway for learning more about Mars. The rest of your life is probably enough time to do a lot of stuff up there. If they really end up mounting the journey, which I hope, I will be one of the enthusiastic followers of the stream and the data we'll receive from there.
So... As you can see, I seem to be a lot into spacy things lately. Spacy as in space, not as in Kevin Spacey... Ugh, I mean, he's a good actor and everything but... ugh.
Back to the topic... I'm beginning to consider seriously if I would like to travel out to space one day... That would be one major goal to achieve... And definitely not an easy one.
But don't worry, I know you'd miss me, so I wouldn't go one-way ;3
I was looking for pictures related to "Mars"... That's the best I could find
And, eventually, the highlight of every news post, the reason you're reading my blog, what am I saying, THE REASON WHY'RE YOU'RE ALIVE: the vocabulary.
GREAT pictures
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