# Trip to Mars (would you do it?) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-to-mars-would-you-do-it/624215 "2012-06-05T23:06:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-to-mars-would-you-do-it/624215/41 "2012-06-08T13:44:18Z")
Will there be free ice cream? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-to-mars-would-you-do-it/624215/42 "2012-06-08T15:36:20Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah, if there’s anything that can _fight_ a corrosive effect, it’s television… Or a big pile of money, we’ll just add more money on the outside as it corrodes away. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-to-mars-would-you-do-it/624215/43 "2012-06-08T18:39:57Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Why \*would \*anyone want to go? The rest of your life–hell, even six months!–on an airless, barren desert, trapped in a small place with who knows \*what \*kind of people (look around at your coworkers, for instance). > > I do not go \*anywhere \*that does not have branches of Lord & Taylor and Elizabeth Arden, a decent restaurant, and a bar. \*Mars? \*No phone! No lights! No motorcar! Not a single luxury. Well if Maryann and Ginger went… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-to-mars-would-you-do-it/624215.md?page=2)