To Mars and never come back

[NorthernChaosGod]

Yeah, Jupiter is the best of the three.

[Madame Adequate]

There are four gas giants

[Denmark]

yeah but nobody wants to look at uranus

[Pike]

Pluto is the best planet

RIP in peace

[Slothy]

There are four gas giants

How the smurf did I think there were three? Excuse me while I go kill myself now.

[Faris]

I keep reading this thread's title in the Gollum voice and it is driving me crazy.

If you qualified would you go let alone apply?

Nope, nope. Not until they make a way to go back.

[Bubba]

What the hell are you guys talking about?

The best plant is clearly the Giant Pitcher Plant. It is both beautiful and deadly in equal measures.

[NorthernChaosGod]

There are four gas giants

How the smurf did I think there were three? Excuse me while I go kill myself now.

I'll just watch.

[fire_of_avalon]

I never said people weren't implying you Earthers are crazy. But idiot is something else entirely.

And Denmark, telling someone they are objectively wrong is not the same as calling them an idiot.

Ahahahahaa, Earthers.

I don't know if I could do that. Maybe if I got really bored down here and didn't have anyone left I wanted to see or hold again, I would go. It's the not coming back that bothers me.

[Night Fury]

Definitely. Step one to becoming Tara Shepard.

[Tigmafuzz]

These arguments about personal preference are hilarious.

[qwertysaur]

I prefer to live on a planet with a magnetic field that deflects the constant stream of deadly cosmic radiation from the sun. Also planet wide dust storms are a turn off as well.

[Iceglow]

I would be interested in going, I'd certainly apply for it and see who else is going, that'd be the deal breaker for me is who else got to go.

[Miriel]

But please do continue to be super mad because I consider curiosity and the desire to explore core, indeed defining, aspects of our species and I wonder how people can lack them.

Oh c'mon, you know better than to do the whole, "Oooh ho ho, why you so mad? Just calm down" tactic. Cause seriously? Who gets mad about this stuff? Unless, you're legit mad at the idea that people don't want to go to Mars. Like that idea offends you, which I don't think it really does, unless I'm totally mistaken.

I do think the whole point of my post either just completely went past you, or you're deliberately ignoring it. The point being that it makes no sense to call someone damaged or uncurious for not wanting to go to Mars, when there is such a crapton of amazing things to do and accomplish and explore right here on Earth. The whole point of my post was about how ridiculous it is to make the claim that to not want to go to Mars is somehow equal to not having basic human traits, which is something you're STILL insisting in your rebuttal post. Which is bonkers. BONKERS.

It's not like a single person in this thread is advocating that no one goes to Mars.

We have the ability these days, to share our experiences with each other in a freakin' remarkable way. YOU can go to Mars and give up everything to do it. And I can witness it by watching the extravaganza on TV, and then go about fulfilling my career goals, having children, seeing the beautiful parts of this world and I will personally, not have been made lesser for it. It for sure doesn't make me, or anyone else who shares this sentiment of not wanting to go to Mars damaged. It's such a bizarre assumption that I had to make my own assumption that you were ignoring all the things a person could accomplish on Earth in favor of having a big huge blinding boner for Mars.

I think someone needs glasses.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ARS-Viking.jpg

Yeah, I'm not going to image tag that since the original is 6445x6445.

Dude. It looks like a perfectly round poop. A big round poop. But I mean, if that's the style you dig...

[Renmiri]

Meh, I'd go if I was just finishing college and had no major family ties. It seems like a cool adventure.

But on the north side of 30, single mom with kids and family depending on me, things are different. Being cold, eating bland food, having to worry about leaks leaving me gasping for air ? Get enough of that with my old tired bones already Right now my life is dedicated to getting me and my loved ones to survive this crazy 21st century we have. And is more than enough "adventure" for me right now.