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I really really hope this happens. I wouldn't go, but I would love this to become a reality show or network dedicated from the beginning and to just keep going. Hopefully they get enough sponsors.
I would love to try it for a year maybe, but that is not an option. It's to be permanent. No Willamette River, no pine trees, no ability to drive to New Jersey or fly to Australia, no chance to see parts of the ocean you haven't seen before. How could anybody not regret it? Absolutely the worst idea ever, I think. The worst torture imaginable.
No chance to meet people from Kamchatka, try Moroccan cuisine in Morocco with Morrocans ... no way to see more of Earth, meet more people, see other customs of being human, learn other languages and speak them face-to-face with natives and smile, laugh, love other people, no way to discover more of your home planet, and what if you found some new thing so fascinating that you hadn't even thought of ... and there is so much here, that I couldn't experience it in 200 years. That is what I would so deeply regret if I was gone, and I know I could not live with that regret.
No way to try that restaurant that your friend loved, no way to fly the Airbus 380 from Hong Kong to Singapore (or whatever you hear of that humans on Earth love to do), no way to make South African style food that you crave from hearing about it ... almost everything about being a human from Earth becomes impossible. No way to ride the newest Kawasaki or even see one in person. And with years to think about it, I would have about a few million regrets. Even if I can't do everything I wish I could do, right now, I know I can do some of the things as I choose. To not have that choice is worse than death.
It would be incredible to go to Mars, but certainly NOT permanently. I could see myself breaking down with a billion and one regrets and massive depression well before the Earth would even be nothing more than a point of light.
I would love to try it for a year maybe, but that is not an option. It's to be permanent. No Willamette River, no pine trees, no ability to drive to New Jersey or fly to Australia, no chance to see parts of the ocean you haven't seen before. How could anybody not regret it? Absolutely the worst idea ever, I think. The worst torture imaginable.
No chance to meet people from Kamchatka, try Moroccan cuisine in Morocco with Morrocans ... no way to see more of Earth, meet more people, see other customs of being human, learn other languages and speak them face-to-face with natives and smile, laugh, love other people, no way to discover more of your home planet, and what if you found some new thing so fascinating that you hadn't even thought of ... and there is so much here, that I couldn't experience it in 200 years. That is what I would so deeply regret if I was gone, and I know I could not live with that regret.
Worst idea ever? Here's a reason why. When you die now (assuming you're just a regular Joe) and your immediate family is gone too, you'll never be remembered as being on Earth. If you're the first to Mars, you'll be in the history books and talked about as long as our species is alive and that is a major selling point. This has the ability for another civilization to colonize another planet which is what we need.
Worst idea ever? Here's a reason why. When you die now (assuming you're just a regular Joe) and your immediate family is gone too, you'll never be remembered as being on Earth. If you're the first to Mars, you'll be in the history books and talked about as long as our species is alive and that is a major selling point. This has the ability for another civilization to colonize another planet which is what we need.
That would be an incredible adventure for the whole world to share in the success of. Would I go? probably not but I'm sure there are many who would consider it. It would be difficult to leave family and everything you have ever known in your life. Of course maybe a whole family can go like the classic TV show "Lost in Space"
I would be worried about getting resupplied. Mars is a very hostile planet that likes to eat half the probes we have sent to it. Imagine gettign there after the 7 month journey and realising the robots that were supposed to set up camp have been sitting around collecting red dust.
The idea is fascinating. Note: NASA didn't sign on.
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