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2013/05/06 03:26:11
Subject: Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
Just for those interested. I personally am going to be posting my video and application this Friday, due to not being able to get to the bank and withdraw the $38 sooner.
I've never feared Death or Dying. I've only feared never Trying.
2013/05/06 04:16:46
Subject: Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
This is certainly an interesting project. 2023 might be a little ambitious but if it happens within 10 years it'll be awesome.
That could mean we would have viable 2 way trips within my lifetime.
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
azazel the cat wrote:Time to create mine & my S/O's applications.
Good luck to you, Azazel. Meet you on the flip side
Ma55ter_fett wrote:
Slarg232 wrote: I'm sure that's why the $40 entrance fee is there, to help cut back on reapplications, joke applications, and similar.
You could throw your money into a storm drain and be rid of it quicker.
True, but you can never win the lottery if you don't make a down payment.
Well its your money after all, best of luck to you.
Thank you
Can I count on your vote? I won't ask for you to just immediately vote for me, but to instead just look at it and vote if you like my video. I'mma make a thread for it when I post mine, Mods Willing.
I've never feared Death or Dying. I've only feared never Trying.
2013/05/06 04:47:20
Subject: Re:Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
I admit, I'm very wary of any online "contest" that requires an entrance fee... but this has been making the rounds for a while, and the investment weighed against the prize is kinda working in my own personal calculus.
Also, "have sex on mars" is honestly on my bucket list.
2013/05/06 04:59:47
Subject: Re:Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
azazel the cat wrote:Time to create mine & my S/O's applications.
Good luck to you, Azazel. Meet you on the flip side
Ma55ter_fett wrote:
Slarg232 wrote: I'm sure that's why the $40 entrance fee is there, to help cut back on reapplications, joke applications, and similar.
You could throw your money into a storm drain and be rid of it quicker.
True, but you can never win the lottery if you don't make a down payment.
Well its your money after all, best of luck to you.
Thank you
Can I count on your vote? I won't ask for you to just immediately vote for me, but to instead just look at it and vote if you like my video. I'mma make a thread for it when I post mine, Mods Willing.
Sorry but I'm going to vote for the applicant whom I least want to stay on earth.
Whoever seems most deserving of a gradual decent into insanity and then a unpleasant death on an uncaring planet a million miles away from anyone who gives a gak about them is who I’ll vote for.
I just don't think you've yet earned that fate yet slarg
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azazel the cat wrote:Time to create mine & my S/O's applications.
Good luck to you, Azazel. Meet you on the flip side
Ma55ter_fett wrote:
Slarg232 wrote: I'm sure that's why the $40 entrance fee is there, to help cut back on reapplications, joke applications, and similar.
You could throw your money into a storm drain and be rid of it quicker.
True, but you can never win the lottery if you don't make a down payment.
Well its your money after all, best of luck to you.
Thank you
Can I count on your vote? I won't ask for you to just immediately vote for me, but to instead just look at it and vote if you like my video. I'mma make a thread for it when I post mine, Mods Willing.
Sorry but I'm going to vote for the applicant whom I least want to stay on earth.
Whoever seems most deserving of a gradual decent into insanity and then a unpleasant death on an uncaring planet a million miles away from anyone who gives a gak about them is who I’ll vote for.
Fine.
I hope you step on a lego.
I've never feared Death or Dying. I've only feared never Trying.
2013/05/06 05:36:56
Subject: Re:Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
I'm applying once I get back from Japan. I intend to briefly seize the flight while midway to mars, complete with pirate flag and demand a box of chocolate poptarts or something be sent up with the next supply run to release the crew. Allowing me to scratch something off MY bucket list.
Be the first space pirate in human history!
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
Bloody hell Azazel. Now it's on my list as well.....
Hmm i wonder who will be the first person to have interplantetary phone sex.
Talk about a long distance relationship eh?
Eh eh!? No? OK then.
That was a terrible joke. I'm sorry everyone... I'll just be uh.. over here now... not talking to anyone... ever again. Yeah.
As I understand it, there's a 25 minute transmission delay. This would only be for the patient, or very, very desperate.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
2013/05/06 12:45:43
Subject: Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
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2013/05/06 23:15:48
Subject: Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
Scrolling through just the thumbs of the videos. . . I would not want to be stuck on another planet for the rest of my life with about 90% of those people.
2013/05/06 23:36:27
Subject: Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
If all goes well, you're only stuck with the initial group for 2-3 years. After that, you get 4 more, and 4 more every 2 years thereafter.
It's funny, this decision to make it an almost certain one way trip really shrinks the pool of candidate to a certain type of people. I cannot wait to see their reality show hit the challenge stage.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
2013/05/07 00:37:10
Subject: Re:Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Its only a one way trip currently. At the rate technology is advancing you may be able to come home after being there 15-20 years. Naturally its indeterminate when such a thing would be possible so no promises.
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Did they refund your application fee? I'm simply curious, and imagine some of our other prospective dakkanauts would be interested in their policy for that as well.
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Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
2013/05/07 16:05:09
Subject: Re:Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
KalashnikovMarine wrote:I'm applying once I get back from Japan. I intend to briefly seize the flight while midway to mars, complete with pirate flag and demand a box of chocolate poptarts or something be sent up with the next supply run to release the crew. Allowing me to scratch something off MY bucket list.
Be the first space pirate in human history!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
"Julian this is a pirates' gun!"
"Well Trevor, that makes you long john ****weed then!"
Did they refund your application fee? I'm simply curious, and imagine some of our other prospective dakkanauts would be interested in their policy for that as well.
sorry to hear about this mayne! would be good to know for the rest of the lot to save their $40 if they will be DQ'd/run the risk
Grey Templar wrote: Its only a one way trip currently. At the rate technology is advancing you may be able to come home after being there 15-20 years. Naturally its indeterminate when such a thing would be possible so no promises.
No you couldn't. Once your body adjusts to Mars gravity over a long period of time, you wouldn't be able to survive on Earth apparently.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Really?
I could understand needing a period of adjustment but I am skeptical that it would be fatal. Is there proof of this?
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
So your bones would be 5-10% less sturdy when you reach mars than when you began the journey, and you would not return to normal Earth densities on Mars itself due to the lower gravity field. Whatever level you started at on Mars itself, you'd be looking at another 5-10% bone loss.
Best case scenario, you'd stabilize at 80% of Earth durability, then drop down to 70% during the return voyage.
That would put you at, if my hasty amateur research is correct, a very severe portion of osteoporosis and you'd fracture heavily during lift off and reentry.
That's assuming all your organs can deal with the sudden increase of 20% additional pressure.
edited for interesting new statistic- Osteoporosis requires only a 2.5% bone density loss, and at that lack of density your bones can fracture from everyday use- I imagine 30% loss would in fact confine you to a bed or wheelchair, Harkonnen style, to keep from collapsing under your own weight.
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Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
2013/05/07 17:15:23
Subject: Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2013/05/07 17:15:33
Subject: Re:Mars One is now accepting applicants for Group One, Phase One.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
hmm, fair enough.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Apparently only 50% of the bone density is recoverable after a 6 month period.
Osteoporosis is considered begun at 2.5% bone density loss, so 30% may well cause catastrophic failures of the skeleton.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
