NASA Planning on One-Way Manned Trip to Mars

[Medevilae]

We’re throwing you on that spaceship even if we have to kill everyone else first.

[jambo]

@sersoft

unspoken rule of the bm forums

randomly mention sersoft

It’ll give you plenty of time to play GTAIV on your banana

[sersoft]

weed doesn’t grow on mars

[Imonfire]

Well steal a couple of plants and go try it !

[gugamilare]

@Medevilae

You have to wear a spacesuit on the moon because you can’t breathe there… Same with Mars. Mars has stronger gravity than the moon. You could live just fine there. They’re going to be sending “buildings” in modules similar to that of the ISS. You won’t get a mansion but you’re not going to live on the Martian surface without somewhere to stay.

If it is just to breath, you can use just an oxygen mask. The suit used by astronauts on the moon are because of weight, pressure, radiation, etc, not only for breathing.

By the way:

In 2007, it was calculated that DNA and RNA damage by cosmic radiation would limit life on Mars to depths greater than 7.5 metres below the planet’s surface.[18] Therefore, the best potential locations for discovering life on Mars may be at subsurface environments that have not been studied yet.[79]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars

and:

Mars is much colder than Earth, with a mean surface temperature of -63°C and a low of -140°C. The lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth was −89.2°C, in Antarctica.
[…]
The atmospheric pressure on Mars is ~6 mbar, far below the Armstrong Limit (61.8 mbar) at which people can survive without pressure suits. Since terraforming cannot be expected as a near-term solution, habitable structures on Mars would need to be constructed with pressure vessels similar to spacecraft, capable of containing a pressure between a third and a whole bar.
The Martian atmosphere consists mainly of carbon dioxide. Because of this, even with the reduced atmospheric pressure, the partial pressure of CO2 at the surface of Mars is some 52 times higher than on Earth. It also has significant levels of carbon monoxide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars

Therefore you would need to use a special suit when you are outside your… “house”.

[Medevilae]

@gugamilare

Therefore you would need to use a special suit when you are outside your… “house”.

I hadn’t implied otherwise.

[gugamilare]

In my post, after the “By the way” is just some related information, not an argument against your point. You were actually right about the need of the spacesuit.

Anyway, more bad news for the volunteers:

The surface gravity on Mars is 0.38 of that on Earth. It is not known if this is enough to prevent the health problems associated with weightlessness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars

Symptoms of [initial hours of weightlessness] include nausea and vomiting, vertigo, headaches, lethargy, and overall malaise. […]
The most significant adverse effects of long-term weightlessness are muscle atrophy and deterioration of the skeleton, or spaceflight osteopenia. These effects can be minimized through a regimen of exercise. […] Other significant effects include fluid redistribution (causing the “moon-face” appearance typical of pictures of astronauts in weightlessness),[13][14] a slowing of the cardiovascular system, decreased production of red blood cells, balance disorders, and a weakening of the immune system. Lesser symptoms include loss of body mass, nasal congestion, sleep disturbance, excess flatulence, and puffiness of the face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weightlessness#Health_effects_of_weightlessness

Are you ready to go, sersoft?

Muscle atrophy… Kaze must go too :3

[Winged_One]

@JeffMOD

Because History has taught us that this is, 99% of the time, true. Hitler was a horrible person. The German people fucked up by being enchanted by his speeches and not reading his book, and as a result, not realizing he was a horrible person.

So your belief that humanity is terrible is based on Hitler’s antisemitism? At that rate, I think it’s only natural for asteroids to be douchebags because one of them killed the dinosaurs.

You do realize that history is also a tale of humans living in peace and benevolence, do you not? You bastards don’t have to focus on how pathetic and monstrous we seem. It may sound cool when coming from a theatrical and dramatic fictional bad guy, but this is the real world. Please have some respect for your race.

[Orpheon]

Wow, we proved Godwin’s law in less than 3 pages. Good job.

[Frozen_Cham]

So what’s going on?

[Psyborg]

I’d go if only to never feel compelled to read this thread ever again.

[_rot_fodder]

We are sending it with you.

Along with Winged and Jeffmod. When they kill each other, you can cook and eat them.

[Someonerandm]

I think we should just send the least competent people possible, just to see what happens.

[Winged_One]

@(rot)(fodder

We are sending it with you.

Along with Winged and Jeffmod. When they kill each other, you can cook and eat them.

naw man, i wouldn’t die

[Someonerandm]

Would you bring a gun?

[Mith]

would guns work on mars?

no idea if there’s enough oxygen for combustion and etc

[Someonerandm]

I meant on the ship, but I don’t think they’d work on Mars without modifications.

[Frozen_Cham]

yeah
may be they’ll introduce the first lasers gun for space using.

[King_Kaddo]

@Mith

would guns work on mars?

no idea if there’s enough oxygen for combustion and etc

I think there is enough oxygen inside the propellant charge (gunpowder).
Some guns also work under water for a time.

[Winged_One]

Martians will revert to medieval weaponry for a time.