Would you be on the first shuttle to mars?

[h4344]

So I have thought about this one for awhile. If you had the opportunity to be one of the first to colonize mars would you do it? Assuming for the purpose of this discussion that it would be at the end of 2018 and we had terraformed mars to a breathable environment.

I say that I absolutely would. The amount of opportunities to be taken on a fresh world with no infrastructure yet and the need to create everything anew. I would assume the government would have a sort of homestead act to encourage new people to join and help the new world grow.

Honestly I might just as well go to the top of Olympus Mons and start some branch off town and start my own version of Barter Town who is with me???

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[parallax]

I'm in.. but theres gotta be a thunder dome, 2 men enter, one man leaves...Not to compete,, I just want to be a spectator.

 

[moose]

I tell my kids they should go, or at least be part of the engineering effort.

 

[Hop Sing]

Wow, that would be a heck of a thing to leave everything you've ever know as normal to start anew. I reckon many of our ancestors thought that way too, especially the early ones to North America when virtually nothing was knows about this place.

 

[albin25]

I'm probably a bit too old to make the cut...
....But, I would dearly love running the committee that selects who to send!

 

[ikemay]

Nope.

 

[cigars]

I would gladly accept the nomination to be your benevolent dictator.
Cigars for everybody. The beer would flow like wine.
Full contact skeet golf would be the planet wide sport.

 

[ikemay]

 

[rick49]

I can only quote the Eagles Hotel California "that spirit hasn't been here since 1969"

 

[MasterChief]

YES I would go....but bringing a nice little blackwater arsenal with me.....Might need my own ship.....yup....def. wanna follow

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

No way, but I would gladly recommend any of the anti-2A crowd...

 

[IOM]

No way, but I would gladly recommend any of the anti-2A crowd...

Wishful thinking on that one....

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Having read the John Carter of Mars series and The Martian Chronicles...Mars has its appeal...I wonder if I would be the first on Mars to have a Hawken Rifle?...
Andy

 

[Squidly]

If I was a younger man, absolutly yes. But, the female to male ratio would have to be 2:1

 

[partsed]

Members of Congress can go first. They are trying to ruin something that has been around for over two hundred years, let them try to do better.
BTW-a one way flight for them.....

 

[Mistman]

If I was a younger man, absolutly yes. But, the female to male ratio would have to be 2:1

I'd want better odds than that, I mean if you're dreaming dream big, 10:1!!

 

[Diamondback]

Depends. One Way or Return Option?

If I can't come back I'm not going... Mars Direct is basically a suicide-cult in space.

 

[IOM]

Having read the John Carter of Mars series and The Martian Chronicles...Mars has its appeal...I wonder if I would be the first on Mars to have a Hawken Rifle?...
Andy

Andy, if you read and or watched John Carter of Mars, you'll know that firearms were not permitted for travel...!!! Ha...

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

Nope, you couldn't be pay me enough. I am more than happy where I am.

 

[jbett98]

They'll have to figure out the radiation problem first before i would volunteer.