To Mars and never come back

[Jinx]

>People saying no

How can you be THAT damaged? How can you so thoroughly lack the most basic elements of humankind? How can you be devoid of the need to explore and push boundaries? I... I just can't understand.

That's not it at all.

Mars is just a smurfing trout hole. Why would anyone want to live there? If it a was cool planet with like oceans and trout, or the moon or something--sure.

The point of going to Mars is to MAKE it like that.

It's a smurfing desert with no water. No matter what you do, it will remain to be a trouthole.


Shorty, back me up, girl. She lived in the desert for a year or three or something? Just cos there's civilization there and trout doesn't mean it's a cool place to live. End of.

[Quindiana Jones]

These people will be going there with the sole purpose of making it like that, which they will do every day for the rest of their lives. You are a silly bumhole.

[Shorty]

I lived in the desert for five years. I'd rather be dead on earth than alive on Mars.

[Pike]

>People saying no

How can you be THAT damaged? How can you so thoroughly lack the most basic elements of humankind? How can you be devoid of the need to explore and push boundaries? I... I just can't understand.

That's not it at all.

Mars is just a smurfing trout hole. Why would anyone want to live there? If it a was cool planet with like oceans and trout, or the moon or something--sure.

The point of going to Mars is to MAKE it like that.

It's a smurfing desert with no water. No matter what you do, it will remain to be a trouthole.

This is massively incorrect but I cba to go into detail right now xD

And I don't care what it is; if I can sit on my ass and play vidya all day and not have to deal with anyone then sign me up.

[Quindiana Jones]

Pike, I think you've misinterpreted the purpose of this mission. xD

I lived in the desert for five years. I'd rather be dead on earth than alive on Mars.

Me too, apart from that bit about Mars.

[Slothy]

It's a smurfing desert with no water. No matter what you do, it will remain to be a trouthole.

Allow me Pike.

No water except for the copious amounts frozen in polar ice caps (and that assumes none under the surface which isn't true since there's permafrost which stretches farther than the ice caps).

The Northern ice cap alone is about 56% the size of the Greenland ice sheet. The southern ice cap, despite covering a smaller area of the planets surface is thicker and has about as much ice as the Northern cap. If you melted one of them it would release enough water to cover the entire surface of Mars to a depth of about 11m (about 36 feet for you dirty yanks).

Does it ever get tiring being wrong about Mars TB?

[Psychotic]

Maybe this is where all of the fundie Christians can go to build their perfect society.

I thought that was how America got started.

[Araciel]

They're still trying to start it.

[Burtsplurt]

I would definitely do it. There's nowhere left on Earth to explore. Everest is pretty much a tourist destination. The idea of doing something new, pushing humankind's boundaries, is a massive thing. There aren't many people I admire more than pioneers such as Captain Scott.

I think I could die a happy man.

[Miriel]

>People saying no

How can you be THAT damaged? How can you so thoroughly lack the most basic elements of humankind? How can you be devoid of the need to explore and push boundaries? I... I just can't understand.

If you want to go, fine. I'll be happy to watch about your exploits. I really do think this will make for excellent TV.

But not wanting to go to a desolate hell scape is totally the reasonable response. Not having the basic elements of humankind my ass. Are you currently exploring all the wonders of Earth? Have you hiked the Pacific Crest Trail? Have you pushed yourself to run a 100 mile ultra marathon? Have you gone to the resource lacking nations of Earth to help build wells? Are you currently pushing the boundaries of science, literature, art? If you're not already doing all this stuff on earth, don't be sitting there acting all highfalutin just because you fetishize space exploration and think that by doing this one nightmarish thing, that this makes you better than all the people accomplishing extraordinary things right here on Earth.

Don't be that guy who doesn't want to do stuff simply because other people have done it before you. YOU still haven't done it. It's like when people stop liking a band because it becomes too mainstream. ugh.

[Denmark]

There's nowhere left on Earth to explore.

except, you know, 95% of the ocean that covers 72% of the earth's surface. 68.4% of the Earth left unexplored.

IT'S OCEAN VS. SPACE TWO Y'ALL

space exploration is equally important, though. colonizing mars? i dunno. maybe.

[Jinx]

You can make a civilization, but you can't make a smurfing ocean.

I don't mind if other people want to do this, but yeah, I actually do take offense at being told I'm an idiot for not wanting to.

[Slothy]

I don't recall anyone calling you an idiot.

And I think it would be more accurate to say we can't make an ocean on Mars right now. Who knows what the future will bring.

[Jinx]

I don't recall anyone calling you an idiot.

And I think it would be more accurate to say we can't make an ocean on Mars right now. Who knows what the future will bring.

It wasn't said outright, but it was implied.

i.e. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?"

[Slothy]

I think you're taking things a bit too personally. No one is implying anyone is an idiot for not wanting to go Mars.