# High-risk mission to Mars. Do you volounteer?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-risk-mission-to-mars-do-you-volounteer/349889>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 25, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-risk-mission-to-mars-do-you-volounteer/349889 "2006-03-25T21:55:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Emerald\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Emerald\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emerald_Hawk)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-risk-mission-to-mars-do-you-volounteer/349889/41 "2006-03-28T16:51:42Z")

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> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> The chance of death for us all is 100% anyway. All we are negotiating on is a more likely time and place. I would gladly burn a few probable years to do something that cool. The mission would more than concentrate the life that I have left into something would be willing to gamble on.

I understand your reasoning but I hold the opposite opinion. For a young person like myself, throwing away 50 to 75 years on something like this tends to look less appealing. Looking at it another way, what if someone gave me two options:

1)I can travel 50 years into the future and get to see and experience all the new stuff that humanity comes up with in 2056, or  
2)I can probably be killed trying to get to mars

I’d take 2056 in a heartbeat. All I’ve got to do is stay healthy and drive safely. However, once I’m much older I could see myself coming around to your point of view.

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**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-risk-mission-to-mars-do-you-volounteer/349889/42 "2006-03-28T23:53:00Z")

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> [@clairobscur](#):
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> … no particular competence is required.  
> … being in shape isn’t a requirement, either.

I guess we can understand the low estimate of success.

But I’d probably go anyway.

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