Mars One

[Eric Mc]

Einion Yrth said:

Eric Mc said:

If I get there first, it'll be me

Eric, you're an accountant in your early fifties. How fit are you?

Who cares. And I have a bike

9 months of Zero G followed by the rest of my life at half a G - I might even live to be 150 on Mars.

[Eric Mc]

Simpo Two said:

TheTurbonator said:

I'd sort of understand if you were a scientist, physicist, geologist etc. where you could study the climate, rocks, and the planet as a whole, but surely even then, you'd eventually get bored and run out of rocks or weather cycles.

Relaying PH should do the trick. You might even get a new section in the forums, 'Planetary PHers'.

The time delay with posting might be annoying.

[London424]

Eric Mc said:

Simpo Two said:

TheTurbonator said:

I'd sort of understand if you were a scientist, physicist, geologist etc. where you could study the climate, rocks, and the planet as a whole, but surely even then, you'd eventually get bored and run out of rocks or weather cycles.

Relaying PH should do the trick. You might even get a new section in the forums, 'Planetary PHers'.

The time delay with posting might be annoying.

Once BT Infiniti gets rolled out you'll be fine

[Simpo Two]

Eric Mc said:

9 months of Zero G

I'm sure it would be possible to spin you a bit - though don't look out of the windows or you'll be sick.

Eric Mc said:

followed by the rest of my life at half a G - I might even live to be 150 on Mars.

Possibly the only way to get moneysworth out of a pension. Presumably you'll give Mars tax-free status?

Then again, what will you spend your money on?!




(first one to say Mars Bars gets a firework up the trouser leg)

[Eric Mc]

Simpo Two said:

Eric Mc said:

9 months of Zero G

I'm sure it would be possible to spin you a bit - though don't look out of the windows or you'll be sick.

Eric Mc said:

followed by the rest of my life at half a G - I might even live to be 150 on Mars.

Possibly the only way to get moneysworth out of a pension. Presumably you'll give Mars tax-free status?

Then again, what will you spend your money on?!




(first one to say Mars Bars gets a firework up the trouser leg)

What will I spend my money on? Mars Bars of course.

[IanMorewood]

Eric Mc said:

What will I spend my money on? Mars Bars of course.

Or you could have Star Bursts or Milky Ways, perhaps even the odd square of Galaxy.

[Eric Mc]

I'd need suspended animation or a wormhole in order to get to the shops that sell those.

[DocJock]

Eric Mc said:

No different to what people did on earth for thousands of years. Up until fairly recent times, if you left your home country to live far away (Australia say) you went knowing you would never be coming back.

The problem with this specific project is that it is being run as an "entertainment" TV project and will therefore attract all the wrong sorts of people. And I have yet to hear what technology they plan to use to get to Mars and then survive there.

I've heard NASA astronauts state that they would be willing to undertake a one-way mission to Mars.

Well their website http://mars-one.com/en/life-support-unit reckons their 'life support unit' produces '1500 litres of water and 120kg of oxygen' every 500 days.

So 3L/day of water and 180L/day of oxygen.

Well a normal sized adult male at rest uses 3.7L water and 550L oxygen in a day, so I'm assuming that even with recycling, the crew are all going to be sedated midgets

[Simpo Two]

Eric Mc said:

What will I spend my money on? Mars Bars of course.

DocJock said:

Well a normal sized adult male at rest uses 3.7L water and 550L oxygen in a day, so I'm assuming that even with recycling, the crew are all going to be sedated midgets

Take TWO life support units, silly

[Eric Mc]

DocJock said:

So I'm assuming that even with recycling, the crew are all going to be sedated midgets

Another qualification point ticked

[anonymous-user]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-264...

More info about the project here, and also possibly the first Mars One divorce??

[Eric Mc]

Waffle and piffle.

[Nom de ploom]

there was a fantastic horizon programme on recently about putting people on mars.

it was about recycling liquid and solid waste, landing, being horizontal for days / months on end etc...a really really good documentary.

one of the things I found particularly interesting was slowing down (decelerating) the spaceship and potentially entering the atmosphere "sideways" on to increase resistance etc...

fascinating stuff - is there an iplayer link? i'd like to watch it again.

[KareemK]

A one-way rocket to Mars with an solitary Accountant on board? Seems like an inefficient starting point when there are so many Accountants to be had. Not to mention Lawyers and Estate Agents. Reckon we need a bigger rocket.

[RizzoTheRat]

Don't forget the telephone sanitisers, marketing executives and management consultants...

[Eric Mc]

KareemK said:

A one-way rocket to Mars with an solitary Accountant on board? Seems like an inefficient starting point when there are so many Accountants to be had. Not to mention Lawyers and Estate Agents. Reckon we need a bigger rocket.

Yeah - total waste of a good rocket - unless I was the accountant of course

[Simpo Two]

Actually as there's no tax to pay on Mars - or even money - we wouldn't need an accountant... perhaps we could put Eric to better use as a cook?

[Eric Mc]

The first colonists would die of starvation.

[Einion Yrth]

Eric Mc said:

The first colonists would die of starvation.

I doubt they'd live long enough.

[Simpo Two]

Einion Yrth said:

I doubt they'd live long enough.

Why? What have we forgotten?

They could always eat Eric...