Space Sciences Mars One Feasibility - MIT study

Someone from around here has been picked by NASA to be among the 100 to go... Or maybe there was going to be another elimination round, it wasn't quite clear. In any case, this bloke was on the radio the other morning, and he was hoping he'd enjoy some health benefits from the low gravity on Mars .... Not sure if that is correct, that you can live longer in lower gravity environments.
 
Indian Summer said:
Someone from around here has been picked by NASA to be among the 100 to go... Or maybe there was going to be another elimination round, it wasn't quite clear. In any case, this bloke was on the radio the other morning, and he was hoping he'd enjoy some health benefits from the low gravity on Mars .... Not sure if that is correct, that you can live longer in lower gravity environments.
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I don't know if you can live longer in low gravity, but you would have to exercise more or your muscles could atrophy...possibly also the heart.
 
beancounter said:
I don't know if you can live longer in low gravity, but you would have to exercise more or your muscles could atrophy...possibly also the heart.
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Isn't it just that the muscles would become too weak for Earth gravity though? They would still work on Mars. It would be less work on the muscles, so maybe that means the body could live longer before it malfunctions.
 
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Isn't it just that the muscles would become too weak for Earth gravity though? They would still work on Mars. It would be less work on the muscles, so maybe that means the body could live longer before it malfunctions.
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That's a good point. but since the muscles don't have to work as hard, they would get weaker (from a brute strength perspective)...but if they never leave Mars, that's moot anyway i guess.

They would burn less calories, so they would have to eat less or exercise more...or become like those passangers on Wall -E. :p

In any case, living longer in low gravity is just a theory, and it will be a while before it can be empirically proven.
 
It isn't usually the muscles (those ones anyway) that malfunction.

The truth is we don't know what's going to happen, and there's only one way to find out. Early pioneers of flight were viewed as reckless idiots, and probably had a low life expectancy. That was roughly a century ago. Now our world is based around flight due largely to the lessons we learned from their successes and mistakes.

Whatever happens, I admire what they're doing. I can't even fathom what things will be like in a century, but it all depends on crazy people willing to take risks.
 
yakherder said:
Whatever happens, I admire what they're doing. I can't even fathom what things will be like in a century, but it all depends on crazy people willing to take risks.
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But there is a difference between taking a risk that something may go wrong, resulting in your death, and knowing ahead of time that you'll only survive for approximately 68 days. That's not risk taking, that's suicide.
 
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But there is a difference between taking a risk that something may go wrong, resulting in your death, and knowing ahead of time that you'll only survive for approximately 68 days. That's not risk taking, that's suicide.
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Yeah but a lot can be learned in that 68 day suicide mission. Maybe the next group will last 73 days.
 
One of the women said she wanted to go down in history, but in 100 years she will be specifically forgotten. History books will say "The first settlers of Mars"... they won't say John Doe and Mary Smith were the first settlers of Mars. And even if the history books name names, it will be the leader of the group that's mentioned, or someone who gained notoriety, not the others.

I mean how many people outside of NH or NASA remember Christie McAuliffe? How about her co-astronauts?
 
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We've all gotta do our own thing, and not all of us think the idea of dying peacefully in our sleep is worth going through nearly a century of monotony to achieve. Whatever their reasons, and however they're remembered, there has to be a step one, and it's probably not gonna go smoothly no matter how much we prepare.
 
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From what I've seen of Mars from rover pictures, it just doesn't look that appealing a place... kinda barren and cold. If we got around to terraforming it, it could have possibilities long-term. I gotta admit it would be one hell of an adventure for the first humans to set foot on it, though.
 
Tom said:
From what I've seen of Mars from rover pictures, it just doesn't look that appealing a place... kinda barren and cold. If we got around to terraforming it, it could have possibilities long-term. I gotta admit it would be one hell of an adventure for the first humans to set foot on it, though.
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Yea, I think the novelty would wear off quickly
 
beancounter said:
One of the women said she wanted to go down in history, but in 100 years she will be specifically forgotten. History books will say "The first settlers of Mars"... they won't say John Doe and Mary Smith were the first settlers of Mars. And even if the history books name names, it will be the leader of the group that's mentioned, or someone who gained notoriety, not the others.

I mean how many people outside of NH or NASA remember Christie McAuliffe? How about her co-astronauts?
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I don't think the name matters, it' s the deed, the action that will be remembered.
 
Tom said:
From what I've seen of Mars from rover pictures, it just doesn't look that appealing a place... kinda barren and cold. If we got around to terraforming it, it could have possibilities long-term. I gotta admit it would be one hell of an adventure for the first humans to set foot on it, though.
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There's a Taco Bell and a hooker with 3 boobs on Mars. I saw it on Total Recall.
 
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I'm curious about the feasibility of conception and pregnancy in a low- gravity environment, though. I'm sure the colonists will have good times attempting it, though the results may not be so much fun.

I believe I also read that radiation will be a major problem, which means the colonists will have to live and work mostly underground.
 

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