# Leave for Mars next summer!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-for-mars-next-summer/383437>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 9, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-for-mars-next-summer/383437 "2006-12-09T05:05:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-for-mars-next-summer/383437/1 "2006-12-09T05:05:55Z")

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Or at least send your name along with the Phoenix probe, thanks to the Planetary Society:

[http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/messages/phoenix\_dvd.html](http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/messages/phoenix_dvd.html)

I’m goin’! Who’s with me?

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**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-for-mars-next-summer/383437/2 "2006-12-09T05:11:59Z")

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Sure, why not? My name has nothing better to do.

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**Author:** ![Available\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Available\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Available_Jones)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-for-mars-next-summer/383437/3 "2006-12-09T05:22:59Z")

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I’m in.

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**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-for-mars-next-summer/383437/4 "2006-12-09T05:26:31Z")

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I’m in, pretty cool my name on another planet.

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**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-for-mars-next-summer/383437/5 "2006-12-09T07:27:42Z")

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Heck ya…  
I could use this to say something about myself…

I was international - now I’m interplantary.

Brendon