Would you sign up for a deep space mission?

Question

Would you sign up to go to Mars? Would you sign up if you knew you were on a one-way trip? How long could you live in space?

Answer 1

YES!!!!

If it was in the name of discovery and other people would be inspired and would try because I did then I'll do it. send me into the sun

Answer 2

Yes.
No.
As long as it takes.

(You asked 3 questions; I gave 3 answers.)

I actually did sign up for a space mission (many years ago).
And I might sign up for a deep-space mission today - but NOT a one-way trip.

There is no theoretical limit for the time a good life-support system could last. A properly-planned mission would allow for sufficient life-support to make the trip -- and the return trip, too. Some proposed systems are entirely self-sufficient (in a manner similar to the Earth's environment -- recycling chemicals such as oxygen, CO2, H2O, etc.)

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Now, if you are asking how long a human could live in space, WITHOUT a space suit, then that is a very different story!

Some science-fiction writers have written stories of people surviving for several seconds, jumping from one air lock to another, but I doubt it. Others write of freezing on one side, while burning up on the other side, and exploding from the inside out. Pretty gory, huh?

With no air surrounding you, the gases inside your body would probably burst every capillary blood vessel near the surface of your skin, your lungs would dry out instantly, and your eyes might pop out too. Then, again, maybe your skin is stronger than the pressure differential, and maybe you'd survive for a short while.

Scientists have speculated on exactly what would happen, and some experiments have been done on mice, etc. But nobody really knows what would happen to a human without a spacesuit. (Well, maybe somebody does. There are rumors of Soviet experiments with prisoners and "enemies of the state" being put into artificial vacuum chambers; however, there are no public records available and nobody's talking. Yet.)

Answer 3

be reasonable: no one will ever send an exploration trip that is known to be one way. I'm kinda an inside computer dork type, so I think I could adapt to a sealed base type atmosphere pretty well. weirdest thing about mars would be its gravity, which is only about 1/2 that of earth's. That said, given the opportunity I would so go off in to live on mars, but I would probably wanna come back after a few years there, unless there were a good number of people there I could get to be friends with.

Answer 4

Well.... I *wanted* to sign up, but the guy with the eyeballs popping out kind of messed up my trip, lol.

Actually, I sneaked over to some website (http://www.physorg.com/news3246.html), and quickly read up on it.

It listed three major 'stoppers' (for me anyways):

1) Having to live with someone in a 'can' (the spacecraft) for so long, in closed quarters would probably get to me, especially if they ate a lot of beans...

2) Apparently there is a lot of sunlight, so you would be sleeping with light around you - I have enough sleep problems, lol, and, as for the last stopper:

3) Osteoporosis!! "WHAT?!" That one stopped me in my tracks! It can cause Osteoporosis!?

All of these years, I was hoping I would get to go to space to help with my pain. I have Fibromyalgia, and tons of spinal problems and nerve pain, etc., and I REALLY thought the weightlessness would help, but now I read here (see below URL) that it could make things WORSE???

On top of all that, with space travel being so slow, it would take months just to get my next prescription from the pharmacy! My pharmacy does deliver, but I'm not sure if they would go that far...

Thank you for allowing me to open up my eyes and read some reality, lol. *Rips up papers to go to Mars* (No offense, lol).

Answer 5

Sure thing! With the quality of video games, so called virtual reality, who needs the great outdoors? If i feel the need to run thru a field of daisies, I will just boot up Elder Scrolls IV and do that.

As to the guy with the exploding eyeballs. Harumph. If you can survive pressure changes from several ATM down to 1... (admitedly, the bends is an issue, exploding eyeballs? no), then from 1 ATM to 0? should be a no brainer.

Of course if you believe the 'science' of "Total Recall"... prepare to have your eyes bug out!

Answer 6

That's a good question. I couldn't do it. I want to be with my family. However I would give almost anything to go out just far enough in space to look out the window and see the "big blue marble". Our Earth is so beautiful, more than any other planet in our Solar System. I would just love to see the whole Earth in front of me. One great view!

Answer 7

absolutely to all of them
I am bored out of my mind right now, and I would gladly go to Mars and see what it's really like. I've been reading about it forever. During the trip I would get time to read, to program, to write, etc.
One way trip... well, I hope they'd send us supplies to keep us alive there, but I would be glad to leave everything behind. I would write and program and try to encourage people to join me out in space.
I could live in space as long as they had pasta packets.

Answer 8

so long as it could get me away from this hell on earth then yeah id sign up for it... and yeah im having a bad day!

Answer 9

id probably go , i mean i have no reason to wanna be here on earth , maybe something interesting will happen on Mars , like i meet an alien

Answer 10

Dude if i could I would i don't care if I'd never see earth again deep space sweet!!!!!