Would you be willing to go to Mars in 2026

I'm curious given the self starter nature of this forum how many would sign up for the next frontier in space. The poll below assumes SpaceX would have dried rations air supply for set time stated, but after that time it was likely that the colonist would die unless they were able to become self sustaining. Sure you're sure to get a lot of high schools named after you ect. but lifespan wise it would be limiting.

 

Only of they figure out how to terra-form the planet as I'm fond of green trees and real air.

 

I'd sign up because at my age, they could forget about return shipping......

 

Ditto

 

I don't think I'll be going "out there."

Maybe forty years ago...but not now

 

I will go in 10 years from today if ,,,, if you'll take all the Democrats we have now , and ship them on out there to establish a working government. When they have done that ,,, I'll go ,,,

 

I have already lived far longer than I had expected and I have a flare for the extraordinary.
I already invent and create things out side the box, going to another planet would be a wondrous adventure.

 

Great,Just frigg'n lovely,Now we are going to be Space Slaves for the elites.....

 

Only if I planned on dying

 

I'd go now if I never had to hear about COVID, BLMtiFa or any other petty social justice issue again.

 

Nah, I'm going to stick around and stir the pot here as long as I can.

 

I grew-up with the space race and at one time would have jumped at the chance to go into space, but I'm too rooted in the South to go now. I'll live and die in Dixie, and enrich her soil with my dust...just as my ancestors have done!

 

I’d go if I could take my family and they had a self sustainable system.

 

What do you mean "we".

 

I've seen the Martian....



Self sustainability is a must.

The question has inspired me to read Ray Bradbury's 'The Martian Chronicles'.

http://2.droppdf.com/files/hyXKu/the-martian-chronicles.pdf

 

Nope. A solar storm that missed earth in 2017 hit Mars dead center.
Anyoneon the surface would have received a few lethal doses of high energy proton radiation.
They would have need a shelter a few meters underground to be safe.
Even then just being on Mars gives you greater than "space station radiation exposure", but even 524 miles up the space station is still protected by earth's magnetic field which protects against particle radiation, does nothing for electromagnetic wavelengths.
Mars has almost no magnetic field, so you're screwed.
Earth's atmosphere, puts 14.7 to 12 pounds of mass per square inch between most of us and the radiation from space.
The problem is have I have not seen any mention of an "underground shelter" when going to mars this time around. The old missions to Mars plans from like the 1960s and 1970s showed that there would be extensive underground parts, but not now.
All the professionally trained space fliers know this.
That's probably why they are looking for volunteers.

 

Us, The new Space Force !

 

I wanna X-Wing! I wanna X-Wing!

 

NO you'll shoot your eye out kid!