Comments on: One way trips to Mars? https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/one-way-trips-to-mars/ Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:46:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John H https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/one-way-trips-to-mars/#comment-2989 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:46:50 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=3741#comment-2989 The first humans on Mars may well be cavers! Sign me up for a one way ticket!

“First, robots would identify a suitable location for a colony, based on the availability of a natural shelter (such as a lava tube cave) and the availability of water (in the form of ice, of course) as well as minerals and nutrients. Robo-construction crews could make the place habitable for humans.”

]]> By: Kelly Starks https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/one-way-trips-to-mars/#comment-2971 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:32:34 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=3741#comment-2971 Its articles like this that get all Mars exploration folks branded as kooks. The idea that the first folks sent to explore Mars should be sent there no a one way mission (I.E. to live out the few years the first gen systems and medicine – and the supply flights from Earth – allow them to live) is unconscionable and disgusting. For space advocates to suggest it, makes voters recoil in horror from any who claim that label, and all they advocate.

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