7shooter
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I was in college in the 60's. Does that qualify as space colony ?
Space Colonies?
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Paul in Nevada
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I came here to post this. Humanity will never live on Mars or any other planet in any meaningful sense. There will never be permanent settlements on Mars and we will never visit another solar system. Yes, I know that people said the same thing to Columbus and Neil Armstrong. Flying to the moon and back is nothing like the hazards your body would be exposed to on Mars.
I don't care about the hazards, I still want to go, and go it alone. We all gotta die sometime so why not full fill a dream.
I’m perfectly happy to croak here if I must,but I have a daughter plotting on getting me and her ma to Vermont or possibly Sweden which is fine with me. I could use one more adventure lol.Her dilemma is figuring out how to keep us apart [emoji23]
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I can understand that perspective. Personally, I hope to have a heart attack while fly fishing in Alaska and have scavengers scatter my bones (but not for 40+ years and I hope to be fully dead before they eat me). I think I am too claustrophobic for space travel and I hate roller coasters.
I've refused to visit New York my whole life. I sure wouldn't go to Mars.
Speaking of Mars...
In 1974 the cameras caught steam emanating from Otis Sistrunk’s bald head. Analyst Alex Karras, seeing the image and knowing that Sistrunk was the only active NFL player who had not played in college, quipped that Sistrunk was from the University of Mars.
That tag stuck with Otis his whole life.
In 1974 the cameras caught steam emanating from Otis Sistrunk’s bald head. Analyst Alex Karras, seeing the image and knowing that Sistrunk was the only active NFL player who had not played in college, quipped that Sistrunk was from the University of Mars.
That tag stuck with Otis his whole life.
FWIW, I would go into space in a heartbeat if I could.
I've been a HUGE Sci-Fi fan my whole life.
Risk be damned, I'd sign up tomorrow if it were possible.
If I had the scratch to spare, I' do the Space-X or Virgin flights.
I've been a HUGE Sci-Fi fan my whole life.
Risk be damned, I'd sign up tomorrow if it were possible.
If I had the scratch to spare, I' do the Space-X or Virgin flights.
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Me too, but there is a problem with them, they don't go out far enough and they come back. I've no intention of coming back if I get out there.
I agree 100% on the ride being too short. I'd want to come back, I have a wife & kids (hoping to be here long enough for grandkids), but I'd surely prefer a longer ride.Me too, but there is a problem with them, they don't go out far enough and they come back. I've no intention of coming back if I get out there.
Even with that being said though, if I had the dough to spare I'd take the ride as it is, just because it is the only option, and likely to remain the only option for us civilians in my lifetime.
I'd want these guys to help tend my garden.
I have no interest in going, but I do have strong interest in others going. 
Join the Space Force and see the galaxy.
My brother and I always dreamt of going.
DWalt
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My personal belief is that there will never be any mass colonization of the Moon or any planets, in or beyond our solar system, by humans as they currently exist. If done, it will require some form of robotic colonists, or perhaps heavily genetically modified humans or human-robotic hybrids that can live for centuries and will be resistant to the adverse conditions of space and other celestial bodies.
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