# Will Mars Experiment Succeed or Fail? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-mars-experiment-succeed-or-fail/541794 "2010-06-03T16:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-mars-experiment-succeed-or-fail/541794/41 "2010-06-07T10:53:47Z")
> [@charlie145](#): > > Channel 4 in the UK ran a reality TV show called [Space Cadets](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadets) where the contestants were tricked into thinking they had gone to Russia to train for a space trip and if I remember correctly they were tricked into thinking they had gone into low-earth orbit. > > They never actually left the UK. That’s hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-mars-experiment-succeed-or-fail/541794/42 "2010-06-07T11:05:45Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > That’s hilarious! It really was. I loved that program, though I was embarrassed for my country. (That said, one of the exclusion criteria from being a contestant was knowing anything about space travel. The final contestants were told the “craft” had “artificial gravity” and they all believed it.) As to the OP, if Big Brother is anything to go by, I think they’ll end up in countless petty squabbles and the entire experiment will collapse into disorder with someone leaving or being removed. Or they’ll all gang up and kill one of their party, and they’ll all feast on his liver. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-mars-experiment-succeed-or-fail/541794/43 "2010-06-08T21:48:44Z")
Looks like they’ve built a [scale model](http://siberianhamster.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cage-main.jpg) of the facility. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-mars-experiment-succeed-or-fail/541794.md?page=2)