The Dutch are going to mars!

[Extremepredjudice]

A dutch company is planning the first human settlement on mars.


http://mars-one.com/

http://www.youtube.com/embed/6QoEEGySGm4

[Flying Pig]

The Dutch huh?  I wouldnt buy your tickets just yet if I were you.

[Майор Хаткевич]

Will they be going on the....Flying Dutchman?

[titanII]

We'll see how well that plan works out for them....
I know I'm not holding my breath until they succeed....

[jeders]

Will they be going on the....Flying Dutchman?

I knew someone would make that joke.

[Struts]

This would be a great experience! Some of us could go down in history for creating the first CAP squadron on Mars   

[MSG Mac]

This would be a great experience! Some of us could go down in history for creating the first CAP squadron on Mars   

You'll notice that it's a ONE-WAY TRIP! 

[JeffDG]

This would be a great experience! Some of us could go down in history for creating the first CAP squadron on Mars   

Logging into eServices would be fun with a light-travel time of between 4.3 and 21 minutes...that's, in network terms, a very high latency network.

[EMT-83]

Almost as bad as AOL.

[Struts]

This would be a great experience! Some of us could go down in history for creating the first CAP squadron on Mars   

You'll notice that it's a ONE-WAY TRIP!

We can meet in one of those nice little white domes they have there. I think we can fit a few people in there. Our first activity would be to build us a hanger. It would be just like Earth...Except with a lot of red dirt.

[SarDragon]

This would be a great experience! Some of us could go down in history for creating the first CAP squadron on Mars 

You'll notice that it's a ONE-WAY TRIP!

We can meet in one of those nice little white domes they have there. I think we can fit a few people in there. Our first activity would be to build us a hanger. It would be just like Earth...Except with a lot of red dirt.

And what are you going to hang on it? 

Hanger - something you hang things on

Hangar - place where airplanes live

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. 

[Struts]

Correction...Hangar. I'm sorry it was late after a long day.

[NIN]

It would be just like Earth...Except with a lot of red dirt.

And no breathable atmosphere. Then its a lot like New Jersey.

[Struts]

It would be just like Earth...Except with a lot of red dirt.

And no breathable atmosphere. Then its a lot like New Jersey.

:clap:

I was talking about it having a pressurized compartment sir.

[capmaj]

And the tulips would grow where?

[bosshawk]

In the red dirt, of course.  And a Heinikins brewery would be built in the pressurized compartment.  No self-respecting Dutchman would be seen without his beer.

[RogueLeader]

What about the bakery for our doughnuts?

[titanII]

And a Heinikins brewery would be built in the pressurized compartment.  No self-respecting Dutchman would be seen without his beer.

And a greenhouse for the... nevermind 

[RogueLeader]

And a Heinikins brewery would be built in the pressurized compartment.  No self-respecting Dutchman would be seen without his beer.

And a greenhouse for the... nevermind 

See http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=15410.0

[Майор Хаткевич]

This would be a great experience! Some of us could go down in history for creating the first CAP squadron on Mars 

You'll notice that it's a ONE-WAY TRIP!

That's what the Pegasus team was told. They made it home anyway.

Though NCSA travel will be a bit hard.

[Sgt. Fischer]

Yeah.. I think I heard that a few months ago. It's pretty cool. But, I don't know why anyone would want to go to mars for the rest of their lives. Is there anything there that isn't' here?

Will they be going on the....Flying Dutchman?

*Facepalm*

[Майор Хаткевич]

Yeah.. I think I heard that a few months ago. It's pretty cool. But, I don't know why anyone would want to go to mars for the rest of their lives. Is there anything there that isn't' here?

A new frontier? Leaving the cradle? Doubling our chances of surviving an extinction event?

I think MANY people are coming to terms that we'd need to send the first 100-200 people on one way trips. They will also have to be older so that the increased possibility of cancer won't factor in.

Nothing new really, various scientists/scholars/sci-fi writers have been proposing this for decades.

It's not hanging on volunteers - they'll get plenty of those. It comes down to Money.

[Sgt. Fischer]

Yeah.. I think I heard that a few months ago. It's pretty cool. But, I don't know why anyone would want to go to mars for the rest of their lives. Is there anything there that isn't' here?

A new frontier? Leaving the cradle? Doubling our chances of surviving an extinction event?

I think MANY people are coming to terms that we'd need to send the first 100-200 people on one way trips. They will also have to be older so that the increased possibility of cancer won't factor in.

Nothing new really, various scientists/scholars/sci-fi writers have been proposing this for decades.

It's not hanging on volunteers - they'll get plenty of those. It comes down to Money.

I guess you have a point.

[SARDOC]

I couldn't imagine trying to live on Mars in those wooden shoes.

[caphornbuckle]

Wasn't there a movie or book about a group of people going to Mars (or another planet) on a ship and before the ship made it, another ship caught up to them because of the change in technology between the first and second launch?

I remember reading or watching a show about it ages ago.

[Struts]

Wasn't there a movie or book about a group of people going to Mars (or another planet) on a ship and before the ship made it, another ship caught up to them because of the change in technology between the first and second launch?

I can definitely see that happening here. Another reason to wait