But not come back......
Good Idea or Bad Idea?
I'll Spoil my opinion so as to not interfere with your own judgement or opinion unless you really wanted to read what I have to say before you write your post;
Really Simple question and your opinion explaining your answer.PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) -- Invoking the spirit of "Star Trek" in a scholarly article entitled "To Boldly Go," two scientists contend human travel to Mars could happen much more quickly and cheaply if the missions are made one-way. They argue that it would be little different from early settlers to North America, who left Europe with little expectation of return.
"The main point is to get Mars exploration moving," said Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University, who wrote the article in the latest "Journal of Cosmology" with Paul Davies of Arizona State University. The colleagues state - in one of 55 articles in the issue devoted to exploring Mars - that humans must begin colonizing another planet as a hedge against a catastrophe on Earth.
Mars is a six-month flight away, possesses surface gravity, an atmosphere, abundant water, carbon dioxide and essential minerals. They propose the missions start by sending two two-person teams, in separate ships, to Mars. More colonists and regular supply ships would follow.
The technology already exists, or is within easy reach, they wrote.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ONE_WAY_TO_MARS?SITE=OKOKL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Good Idea or Bad Idea?
I'll Spoil my opinion so as to not interfere with your own judgement or opinion unless you really wanted to read what I have to say before you write your post;
To me, its a good idea.
As stated in the article, Early Explorers had to do the same thing. Take leaps that no other Humans of the time truly wanted to. Risks that put their life on the line and their Existence in question. Early Explorers spent Months even Years traveling uncharted waters for no other reason than to find the way back home or to find land as far away from home as possible.
What is so different here?
Cut off from human contact other than those on the Ship with you. No promise of ever finding anything or even getting home for that matter. A difference I see is that in todays world, we have the Technology that even though you're trillions of miles away... we can still talk to you.
One of the many reprecussions of deep space travel that intrigues me is the "Earth out of View" concept... how badly is it going to impact the Human Psyche? Astronauts who left Earth to go to the moon or space stations or even just out of the Stratosphere have all stated that the sensation of leaving the pulls of our Gravity is a depressing feeling. But how bad would going to Mars, where Earth becomes nothing but a Tiny spec in the windshield of your ship impact the human mind.
Fact of the matter to me is, Life is built upon Devourers. The more you grow the more you Devour. Humans are rapidly growing, rapidly Devouring. We can try the "Save the Earth" campaigns all we want, but our very existence is hell bent on consuming everything around us. Much akin to Honey Bees during the Pollinating season.... when there is nothing left... abandon the hive and find more. To me its inevitable that Humans will Planet hop, maybe not successfully in my lifetime, but without a doubt in my mind... its just our Nature to Consume and move on.
So to me it makes sense to push the tech. Its easy to procrastinate and say we're working on it but want to hold off until its 99% safe to do so in order to buy us a few more decades. But I think in history, the ones that make the biggest impacts are the ones that ignore the "Dont Do That!" or "Dont Go There!" nay-sayers to just Risk it all and go Boldly where no man (or woman) has ever gone before.
One way tickets to Mars... Scary, but a Good Idea in my honest Opinion.
As stated in the article, Early Explorers had to do the same thing. Take leaps that no other Humans of the time truly wanted to. Risks that put their life on the line and their Existence in question. Early Explorers spent Months even Years traveling uncharted waters for no other reason than to find the way back home or to find land as far away from home as possible.
What is so different here?
Cut off from human contact other than those on the Ship with you. No promise of ever finding anything or even getting home for that matter. A difference I see is that in todays world, we have the Technology that even though you're trillions of miles away... we can still talk to you.
One of the many reprecussions of deep space travel that intrigues me is the "Earth out of View" concept... how badly is it going to impact the Human Psyche? Astronauts who left Earth to go to the moon or space stations or even just out of the Stratosphere have all stated that the sensation of leaving the pulls of our Gravity is a depressing feeling. But how bad would going to Mars, where Earth becomes nothing but a Tiny spec in the windshield of your ship impact the human mind.
Fact of the matter to me is, Life is built upon Devourers. The more you grow the more you Devour. Humans are rapidly growing, rapidly Devouring. We can try the "Save the Earth" campaigns all we want, but our very existence is hell bent on consuming everything around us. Much akin to Honey Bees during the Pollinating season.... when there is nothing left... abandon the hive and find more. To me its inevitable that Humans will Planet hop, maybe not successfully in my lifetime, but without a doubt in my mind... its just our Nature to Consume and move on.
So to me it makes sense to push the tech. Its easy to procrastinate and say we're working on it but want to hold off until its 99% safe to do so in order to buy us a few more decades. But I think in history, the ones that make the biggest impacts are the ones that ignore the "Dont Do That!" or "Dont Go There!" nay-sayers to just Risk it all and go Boldly where no man (or woman) has ever gone before.
One way tickets to Mars... Scary, but a Good Idea in my honest Opinion.