# Would you go to Mars?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-mars/1002878>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 14, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-mars/1002878 "2024-06-14T15:59:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**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 18, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-mars/1002878/61 "2024-06-18T19:03:16Z")

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I’d still go.

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**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-mars/1002878/62 "2024-06-20T03:03:37Z")

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> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> “Somewhat slower” would be at [an effective bit rate comparable to a 2400 baud modem](https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/how-et-phones-home-what-todays-interplanetary-internet-service-looks-like/) even assuming you have exclusive demand of available bandwidth with the DSN, notwithstanding the 4 to 24 minute inherent latency due to distance. So, fast enough for Usenet/NNTP, and use something like Gopher to download text or compressed still image files, but forget streaming any kind of video or downloading high resolution scanned images.

reminds me of the good ol’ times when looking at nekkid wimenfolk was like playing a game of chess.

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-mars/1002878/63 "2024-06-20T03:16:24Z")

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Sure. If the Mars mission needs a poet, I’m in. As a child I hoped to be the first poet in space and wrote to NASA about becoming a resident in a Lagrange point space station, but what they sent back suggested that they wanted science and math people, not writers.

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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-mars/1002878/64 "2024-06-20T03:25:21Z")

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> [@Al128](#):
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> reminds me of the good ol’ times when looking at nekkid wimenfolk was like playing a game of chess.

Ah, downloading MIME attachments in pine…those were the days.

Stranger

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**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-mars/1002878/65 "2024-07-01T00:48:18Z")

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> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> Ah, downloading MIME attachments in pine…those were the days.

That brings back memories! 🙂  
Though I preferred Eudora (I think they were contemporaries).

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-go-to-mars/1002878/66 "2024-07-01T00:53:12Z")

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The word “hexadecimal” floats to the surface of my cognition.

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