WHY EVERYONE WHO APPLIED TO LIVE ON MARS IS GOING TO BACK OUT!
I'm willing to bet everything I own (which is pretty much nothing) that the Mars One project will end up a total failure. Not just because they'll never be able to come up with the massive amount of money it will take to to fund the entire mission or the fact that the guy behind Mars One has absolutely no background in science or because they don't exactly have the technology to pull this off but also because I'm pretty sure that every single "settler" will back out from this once the time comes to actually step onboard the one-way space ship heading to Mars in 2024. There's no doubt in my mind that this mission will be doomed from the very start.
By the way, I would first like to mention that my life-long dream is to be an astronaut and someday fly into space. But, I'm not crazy enough to go on a mission with no ticket back home especially with a private company that has no experience doing something like this! I don't understand why they don't try to do this mission on our moon first to see if it works before they try to do it on Mars. That part just doesn't make sense to me! But, anyway, here are my reasons for why I know the Mars One "settlers" will be backing out. In 10 years you can quote me on this!
1. THEY WON'T WANT TO DIE OF CANCER OR RADIATION POISONING.
Thanks to the measurements taken from the Mars Rover, Curiosity, we know that anyone living on the planet has a life expectancy of just 2-3 years! This is probably why the Mars One program plans to "replenish" the Mars colony by sending new people every two years. The amount of radiation penetrating the surface of the red planet is insane! Astronauts have a lifetime allowable radiation exposure limit of 1,000 millisieverts. After they reach that amount they are required to hang up their astronaut suits forever. People living on Mars will be exposed to 1,100 millisiervants in just 2-3 years! So, chances are, anyone who makes Mars their home is going to die of cancer and will have absolutely no way to be treated for it!
2. THEY WON'T WANT TO EAT THIS FOR
THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
Would you really want to eat freeze-dried food every single day for the rest of your life? Sure, you can farm your own oats, peas, and beans in outer space and then eat them with three other people you barely know. But, that still doesn't change the fact that you will never be able to walk into your favorite restaurant with a bunch of close friends and order a delicous meal ever again!
3. THEY WON'T WANT TO MISS ALL THE EARTHLY SUNSETS.
Watching the sunset on Mars would be such an unbelievably amazing opportunity but, wouldn't it get a little old after awhile? It sure doesn't beat a beautiful golden sunset here on Earth! It would also totally suck to never feel the warmth of the sun on you ever again!
4. OR MISS EARTHLY RAIN SHOWERS.
Could you imagine never being in another rainshower again for the rest of your life? Never seeing, feeling, or smelling one single raindrop ever again? I live in Phoenix so I kind of know what it's like but every once in a while the sky will open up and remind me that there is water on this planet.
5. THE TRIP IS JUST TOO FREAKING LONG.
The longest roadtrip I've ever taken was only 8 hours and I was ready to jump out of the car by the time we got to where we were going. Well, if you're heading to Mars, you aren't stopping for a potty break or to grab something to eat for an entire 210 days! To make things even more interesting, the "settlers" will be taking a galactic radiation pounding during the entire flight. I don't know about you but that doesn't sound like very much fun to me. Oh yeah, did I also mention they won't be able to take a shower during the whole flight?
6. THEY WON'T WANT TO BE ON A REALITY SHOW.
I'm pretty sure by the time I'm in my 20's every single person on Earth will have their very own reality show but the Mars One reality show will be just a little different than the typical reality show. First of all, the entire mission is almost completely dependent upon selling commerical television rights for this out-of-this-world reality show. They have yet to sell any ad space so far. But, the real question is, how does the mission stay funded for the rest of the "settlers" lives after Earthlings stop watching the reality show?
7. THEY WON'T WANT THEIR BONES AND MUSCLES TO DETERIORATE.
Since the gravity on Mars is just a third of Earth's gravity, the "settlers" won't be able to return to Earth even if they wanted to. After a certain amount of time their bones and muscles will deteriorate to the point that their bodies wouldn't be able to withstand the gravity on our planet. This is why astronauts who stay in outer space for 6 months or longer have a hard time right after they come back to Earth.
8. THEY WON'T WANT TO NEVER SEE THE OCEAN AGAIN.
Water might have covered Mars a loooong time ago but it doesn't anymore. So no more long walks on the beach, swimming in the ocean, surfing, making sand castles, hearing the waves crash, or smelling the ocean breeze ever again!
9. THEY WON'T WANT TO NEVER SEE ANOTHER ANIMAL AGAIN.
How much would that just totally suck to never see another animal ever again for the rest of your entire life? No more pugs, kittens, baby ducks, listening to birds chirping outside, or family trips to the zoo! Screw that!
10. THEY WON'T WANT TO NEVER EAT BACON AGAIN.
Since there are no animals on Mars it's pretty much a given that the "settlers" will need to be vegetarians. That means no more bacon, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, or steak again!
11. THEY WON'T WANT TO WEAR A SPACE SUIT FOREVER.
Ok, so I have to admit that I would love to have the chance of putting on a real space suit but I also want to be able to take it off outside without dying. Living on Mars, the "settlers" would never be allowed to go outside without a space suit on ever again. That means no more breathing fresh air or feeling a breeze against your skin. There is no way I would be able to do that!
12. THEY WON'T WANT TO HANG OUT WITH THE SAME 3 PEOPLE.
There's only so many things you can talk about with the same three people for the rest of your life. Plus, what do you do when one of them is super annoying? Mars One says they'll bring another four people to the colony two years after you get there but that's a long two years being stuck with the same people. Plus, chances are you'll be right on the verge of dying from cancer or radiation poisoning by the time the new people come!
13. THEY WON'T WANT TO LIVE IN PODS FOREVER.
Who would want to live in a tiny metal box for the rest of their life with no way to go outside for some fresh air? After a few months it seems like things would get seriously boring.
14. THEY WON'T WANT TO NEVER SEE ANY CHILDREN EVER AGAIN.
I guess for some people this would be an awesome thing but, to me, it seems really sad to never see or hear a little kid again. Let's all hope that no one on Mars ever gets pregnant because who knows if a baby could survive normally or not!
15. THEY WON'T WANT TO END UP WITH A WEIRD DISEASE.
No one knows what kind of crazy, never-seen-before diseases could come about from being on Mars. Scientists have no clue if all the dust on the planet is toxic to humans or not. Plus, if you get an infection while you're there you will never be allowed to come back to Earth even if they figured out a way to bring the "settlers" home! It would be really sad that you'd have to die all alone on a planet that's over 34 million miles away but it would be even more sad if you killed off an entire planet that has 7 billion people living on it!
16. THEY WON'T WANT TO FIND OUT AFTER THEY LEFT EARTH THAT THEY MADE A BIG MISTAKE LEAVING IT.
No human in history can tell us what it's like to leave Earth knowing they'd never be able to come back. Once you step on that spaceship there's no going back. A lot of the astronauts who have been to the moon said the further they flew away from Earth the more upset and shaken up they felt. And these are trained astronauts who were coming back home from the moon which is barely that far away compared to Mars!
All they will ever see for the rest of their lives is the color red...everywhere. No matter where they go on Mars, that's all they will ever see for the Rest. Of. Their. Entire. Lives. Supposedly, they'll be able to watch tv and search the internet so they'll see color on a screen, but that's just not the same thing as seeing a rainbow in the sky or colorful flowers in a garden!
17. THEY WON'T WANT TO NEVER SEE REAL COLORS EVER AGAIN.
18. THEY WON'T WANT TO SUFFER FROM DEPRESSION FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
Russians locked away six wannabe astronauts for 520 days to simulate and study the effects of a long space flight to Mars. Four out of six members suffered from severe depression and other mental illnesses which would be a super huge problem for Mars "settlers"!
19. THEY WON'T WANT TO FIND OUT THAT THEY DIDN'T BRING A LIFE-TIME SUPPLY OF OXYGEN.
Mars One says that the "settlers" will be allowed to grow plants and trees on Mars. Let's hope that this isn't their life-time oxygen plan since no one knows if trees and plants can even grow on Mars or if they'd even produce oxygen. I'd really like to know how they're going to maintain enough oxygen for the "settlers" to suck on for their entire lives, wouldn't you?
Thanks to Mars super thin atmosphere, it gets hit by asteroids and fragments of comets more than 200 times a year! Earth gets hit about once every 20-30 years. I'm not sure what the "settlers" plan on doing when an asteroid hurtles right towards their colony.
20. THEY WON'T WANT TO GET HIT BY AN ASTEROID.
