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Title: One baby step closer to where no man has gone before
Post by: toasty0 on January 08, 2005, 12:56:57 am

A one man mission to Mars planned for 2020 (http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13643833)

Title: Re: One baby step closer to where no man has gone before
Post by: Sirgod on January 08, 2005, 12:59:57 am

Damn! Ok Nemesis, ToastyO, stormBringer, arm Wrestling Contest starts next week. the looser Sells everything to make sure we are that on Man.  ;D

Seriously, This is Way too cool of a News Report. They have my full support.

Stephen

Title: Re: One baby step closer to where no man has gone before
Post by: S'Raek on January 08, 2005, 01:09:18 pm

That guy better bring about a hundred books and his Gameboy.  That's going to be one long and lonely trip. 

Title: Re: One baby step closer to where no man has gone before
Post by: IndyShark on January 08, 2005, 03:01:55 pm

To be fair we should be able to submit names for the mission. I'd like my boss to go as long as the trip was a long one and it was one way! LOL

Title: Re: One baby step closer to where no man has gone before
Post by: Stormbringer on January 08, 2005, 03:35:44 pm

Sorry, Toasty; somehow I doubt that man is credible. I cannot see NASA sponsoring a one man mission of such duration. No  do i see them doing much manned science on such a mission. The chances of that man croaking or becoming incapacitated would completely destroy a billion dollar mission on which much prestige and street credit are riding. I think the idea of a one man mission to Mars is ludicrous. I rather suspect that the man was a looney or the reporter was a looney.

Title: Re: One baby step closer to where no man has gone before
Post by: jualdeaux on January 08, 2005, 04:38:02 pm

Storm, that is why they are coming up with a new AI computer system named HAL. That way if the guy becomes incapacitated, the computer can take over, after it jettisions the body of course.

Title: Re: One baby step closer to where no man has gone before
Post by: Sirgod on January 08, 2005, 04:39:00 pm

I hear HAL Plays a great Rendition of "Daisy" also.

Stephen

Title: Re: One baby step closer to where no man has gone before
Post by: jualdeaux on January 08, 2005, 04:44:54 pm

Just as long as they don't design it for information retrieval and dissemination and then instruct it to not tell the pilot about the real reason for the mission.

Title: Re: One baby step closer to where no man has gone before
Post by: Commander Maxillius on January 08, 2005, 05:56:30 pm

just our luck, they'll send up the guy that leaves the turn signal on for companionship and the Vulcans swing by at Mars and see the Earth ship flying half the trip signaling left and they'll pass by thinking we're total morons lol