NASA Planning One-Way Manned Mission to Mars

[Generic Other]

(Oct. 27) -- We are going to Mars and not coming back.

At a recent event in San Francisco, NASA Ames Research Center Director Pete Worden introduced the Hundred Year Starship initiative, a project to embark on a one-way mission from Earth to Mars by 2030 and permanently settle the red planet.

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/nasa-hopes-to-send-astronauts-on-one-way-mission-to-mars/19692279

Seriously, I would like to nominate some folks for the first astronauts. Like that Phantom Zone in Superman--make Mars a penal colony!!

Karl Rove
Sarah Palin
All the GOP assholes in Congress (well...let's see that might be just about ALL the GOP members of Congress)
Dick Cheney
The entire Bush klan
Christine O'Donnell (so they can procreate)
All the other pea party candidates currently soiling the public airwaves with their shit.
As many teabaggers as they can fit in

Anyone else?

[sharp_stick]

1. Here I was coming in to make the post funny

by suggesting a bunch of nominees for the trip. I think a pile of us would have the same idea.

[Lasher]

4. You're right. n/t

[Generic Other]

6. There's still more nominees! I forgot Clarence Thomas and Anton Scalia

I forgot Limbaugh and Beck.

[ixion]

2. None of those people would make it 5 minutes on their own

seriously. By the time they got to mars, they wouldn't be able to make a coherent sentence... oh, wait.

[icnorth]

3. How could you propose such a thing?

What have the Martians ever done to deserve this?:D

[MrScorpio]

5. I'd send the people on your list on a one way trip to the Sun instead

Leave Mars free for a better class of people.

[yawnmaster]

7. as long as they land at night, they should be fine. eom

[Generic Other]

12. Our sun is not a black hole!

Let's try and keep it that way. hehe.

[bullwinkle428]

8. I think you stole everyone's idea for a joke after reading the headline!

:rofl:

[Generic Other]

10. I just don't know anyone who'll want a ticket to ride on this trip

Do you?

[damntexdem]

9. Hey, Republicans should love the Red Planet.

;-)

[Aristus]

14. Not only red, but named after the god of war, whom they worship.

You're right: perfect! B-)

[Phoonzang]

11. By 2030, I think you're going to want to be the one who leaves... nt

[Generic Other]

13. I know people who believe the ruling elite wants to be on this voyage

to escape the genocide they plan to inflict on the rest of us. Iff all those people I mentioned get tickets on this voyaage, I will actually worry that they intend to leave and destroy life on planet earth. Destroy us but not our wealth.

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Or how about Going Galt on Ganymede?

Sort of a space opera version of Lord of the Flies

[Generic Other]

16. Like an Ayn Rand novel

Sort of a rightwing "Survivor" reality show!