Would you volunteer, to go on it? Explain your answer.
For me it's out of question. I've got a lovely family and I would never want to be far away from them for so long. If I was 25, why not, maybe...but at the same time...imagine what you did the last 500 hundred days, are you ready to not be able to live any of these for such a long time.
So thank you, not for me, life is to nice to spend time in a box for 500 days.
Reply to this No way would either of us do this, we were just talking about it this morning when we saw the feature on CNN....I think we would go stir crazy not seeing daylight or fresh air or the beach 😉
I suppose if being a cosmonaut/astronaut was your dream and it meant the chance of being the first to go to Mars you would be willing to sacrifice a lot to realise your dream! But for us, no thanks!
Reply to this Donna...but than for sure it won't be the same guys...500 days in a box...500 hundred days to Mars...3 years of your life total...gone...we have way better to do no?
Reply to this I would have thought it would be the same guys...maybe not - but if it was the same guys at least the people watching the 'men in the box' would know that these guys wouldn't go crazy!
We most definitely have way better things to do...who would visit all those beaches if we didn't 😉
Reply to this I would definitely volunteer (on condition the supply of books was ample). I like the thought of having such a potentially long reaching personal contribution to what would be, and lets be honest here, the coolest thing humans have ever done.
However, I'm still not convinced about the whole thing. It's essentially a psychology experiment, yet I can't help but feel that small detail of not actually being on your way to Mars, but in a hanger near Moscow utterly changes the fundamental psychology.
There's a similarity with travelling here, where there is sometimes that risk of forming the opinions of somewhere based on what you think you should be feeling, rather than having perfectly objective, unprejudiced and unbiased opinions.
Secondly knowing that actually it was just an experiment and that it would be dead easy to leave for some Sauvignon Blanc and a spot of Gorgonzola if you so desired would be a massive factor. I don't expect them all to last.
Reply to this Six would-be cosmonauts have entered a sealed facility where they will spend 18 months with no windows and only e-mail contact with the outside world.
sounds like my old apartment in Dublin
they will surely want to go travelling for a while when they get out.
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