The first human colonists on Mars will feel very lonely.

I gotta see that movie!

There was a docudrama on this topic called "Mars" and might be on Netflix. They had the drama side which was a fictional story about people settling on Mars, and the documentary side was present-day interviews with people doing some of the technology stuff that might eventually get us there.

I totally agree!

> I can only imagine they'd be immensely devoted scientists and academics who would see certain sacrifices as acceptable

And there's the problem. We're talking about people who are willing to leave 99.99% of the people they've ever known, probably never to return, which prima facie calls into question their emotional stability and their capacity to form relationships with other humans ... and expecting them to stable, congenial relationships with each other in a new community.

Seems to me that anyone who would volunteer for such a mission would have to be immediately suspected of being a wacko. There's a fine line between immensely devoted and pathologically obsessive.

Yes it is!

Indeed!

Well, there's the Mars project canceled ;)

For sure. They're saying nonsense now that visitors to Mars would have to stay there forever, but gimmee a break, we'll solve that problem quick once we start actually going there.

Isn't there a huge problem with radiation or something? I thought one of the problems is that people would get radiation poisoning and die within a couple months.

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