One way or the other NASA wants to get back into space, so what are the brains at NASA planning? NASA is planning one-way tickets to Mars for volunteers. 2030 launch date ahead.
I say: What?
NASA say: Humans could be sent to the red planet on an one-way ticket as part of the NASA master plan to permanently colonize Mars and then other planets?
One way?! Those are the kind of tickets one buys for people one don't like. An one-way ticket to Mars sounds like a horrible idea. Living, well existing, and working, well, sitting around inside a box with tubes attached to you, measuring your vital signs, while robots scoot around doing stuff, and when your time comes, dying,-- dying is dying, but so far from home, and on another planet at that, far away from ones love ones? Being sent far away from everyone folks know sound like what happened to the unwanted Brits who were sent off to Australia?!
Australia wasn't another planet, but way back then, when the Brits unloaded their surplus, unwanted and prison population, Australia might as well have been on an alien planet. Few folks who got sent there ever returned.
What can anybody possibly do on Mars?
Okay, NASA says it has found water on Mars, and possible signs of life. But my opinion is that the Martian vistas look not to inviting for a walk around a crater. One can't walk around without taking ones own oxygen, and how relaxing could that be? Taking ones own oxygen and walking around all the time in a space suit? And who knows what is really on Mars? There is no proof that there are not Martians. NASA pictures show that water once flowed freely on the terrain. So NASA hypes the trip as a chance to explore, boldly, were life forms may have walked boldly before? Who is to say, those life forms aren't taking a long vacation in hibernation? And if earth humans show up, the space ships are going to hit the fan? 2030, huh? If I'm still here, NASA can count me out.