NASA looking for volunteers apparently…

Two weeks…..two weeks………..two weeks…………two weeks………

If I my wife died and I couldnt ride my bike anymore I would go.

Could we nominate a few folk from here…..

***awaits the “who shall we vote onto the Mars mission” thread***

😉

Plus points:

Would certainly earn you a place in history.
You get to be the first to do something that few people will be able to do for probably another hundred or more years.
It’ll be easy to get parked.

Bad Points:

You get to die alone on a barren planet 55 million km from home.

What’s the pay like?

…and what the hell would you spend it on?

Im sure they would get lots of people volunteer actually – lots of scientists put their whole lifes into science anyway and I am sure some of them would be excited at the prospect of colonising!

what tyres for Martian singletrack ?

Can I take my wife and dogs? What about the chickens?

Martian singletrack? Hmmmm. Dusty, rocky and steep. I’d go with either Panaracer Fire XC or Conti Vapours

I suggest everyone watches Moon before volunteering!

mmm why can I not get the image of that bird with 3 breasts from Total Recall out of my head.

If Things got so bad for me here on Earth then I’d probably consider it. To be fair if I got to that point I’d probably be a danger to the other voluteers and thus get turned down.
Catch 22 eh

Can I sign someone else up to go?

Could we nominate a few folk from here…..
***awaits the “who shall we vote onto the Mars mission” thread***

Do we really want our first contact with extraterrestrial life to be simonfbarnes? 😉

 

(only kidding Simon, we love you really)

NASA revealed that it had already received more than $1 million to commence work on the project

woooaaahh, those guys are serious – that’s nearly 700grand !! I bet you can get a fantastic spaceship for that.