Here is what Earth looks like from Mars

[Sporgon]

Can we make a recommendation for the first person to go on this trip ?

Hummm...am I supposed to take a hint from that?

Not you I hasten to add

 

[jrista]

The really cool thing about viewing Earth from Mars is that Earth is inward of the solar system, rather than outward. It would exhibit phases like Venus does when viewed from Earth, as it orbits around the sun. So you would have New Earth phase, Waxing Earth Crescent, Waxing Earth Half, Waxing Earth Gibbous, Full Earth (largely obscured by the sun, only visible as it enters and leaves this phase, and then only moments after the sun has set on Mars), Waning Earth Gibbous, Waning Earth Half, Waning Earth Crescent.

Even cooler than Venus...with a powerful enough telescope, you could probably see the Moon's phases as well...what a sight that would be: Waxing Earth Crescent with a Waning Moon Half.

That would be an epic view ... one married guy from Qatar got selected to go on a one way journey to Mars, so maybe he'll get to see "Waning Earth Gibbous, Waning Earth Half, Waning Earth Crescent" etc

That would be one crazy trip. Maybe someone will bring along a 28" PlaneWave CDK and an ASA DDM160 mount for "Earth Observing".

I don't think it's going to happen, though. The sheer cost of such a trip is so astronomical, not even the world's most popular reality TV show could maintain the funding for it. It would become the single most expensive project the world has ever seen, and I don't think anyone can truly survive on Mars. Not permanently. Honestly, I think when the time comes, if they really do try, it'll end up being a disaster. There are SO many things that could go wrong, not the least of which is food and water supply problems, but also technical issues and personnel issues. Even assuming they try to maintain a supply chain of food and water deliveries, that just means the cost never ends, and they would always need funding.

The key problem with the Mars One mission is the masses of people who would be required to fund it by continually watching the reality show will eventually get bored. Even if the show maintained a core viewership that would never leave, they would never represent the tens of millions of sustained viewers necessary to extract the kind of advertising revenue necessary to sustain the mission.

There is also the inevitable TRUE realization of what these people are signing up for means...a ONE WAY trip to Mars. People think that's amazing right now...but there is no rescue plan, there is no return ship, there is no return period. It is a PERMANENT LIFE CHANGE, on a scale no one on Earth has experienced before. Psychologists can't gauge the effect of that on people, even if they try. That will have to sink in on multiple levels before people finally get it, and when they do, I'd say as much as half the people who sign up for a one way trip to Mars end up snapping once they are stuck there for a LONG year of MASSIVE hardship and the ever-present long-term threat of danger, going ape-S___ crazy, when they realize they are literally marooned on another planet with no hope of return...or at least, no hope unless the Mars One mission ends up building a rescue vessel (which would take years, so all these crazy people just keep on the crazy that whole time...you know what crazy people do to space missions...we've all seen the consequences of THAT via hollywood for enough years).

Mars One...exciting idea...bad idea. Anyway...

Maybe a bunch of hot nud3 ch!cks, and some "Big Brother" style in-house fights/arguments, drama etc, might keep the reality show going for a few decades ;D ... I wouldn't mind contributing towards the first part ;D ;D

Yeah...lol...thats where I thought this conversation was going!

I suspect a bunch of hot nude chicks in a big brother style escapade is probably the best way to get everyone killed. At some point your going to get a couple of jersey shore-esque guidos going at it over the chick with big tits, and next thing you know an airlock pops open because the fools are fighting in it....derp, there goes the Mars One mission! Oh, gee, and we got to see a bunch of people bleeding from their eyes while they all died a horrifying death...on live TV...over a pair of tits.... :-\

 

[Aglet]

speaking of the view from space, here's a concise quote

 

[Rienzphotoz]

The really cool thing about viewing Earth from Mars is that Earth is inward of the solar system, rather than outward. It would exhibit phases like Venus does when viewed from Earth, as it orbits around the sun. So you would have New Earth phase, Waxing Earth Crescent, Waxing Earth Half, Waxing Earth Gibbous, Full Earth (largely obscured by the sun, only visible as it enters and leaves this phase, and then only moments after the sun has set on Mars), Waning Earth Gibbous, Waning Earth Half, Waning Earth Crescent.

Even cooler than Venus...with a powerful enough telescope, you could probably see the Moon's phases as well...what a sight that would be: Waxing Earth Crescent with a Waning Moon Half.

That would be an epic view ... one married guy from Qatar got selected to go on a one way journey to Mars, so maybe he'll get to see "Waning Earth Gibbous, Waning Earth Half, Waning Earth Crescent" etc

That would be one crazy trip. Maybe someone will bring along a 28" PlaneWave CDK and an ASA DDM160 mount for "Earth Observing".

I don't think it's going to happen, though. The sheer cost of such a trip is so astronomical, not even the world's most popular reality TV show could maintain the funding for it. It would become the single most expensive project the world has ever seen, and I don't think anyone can truly survive on Mars. Not permanently. Honestly, I think when the time comes, if they really do try, it'll end up being a disaster. There are SO many things that could go wrong, not the least of which is food and water supply problems, but also technical issues and personnel issues. Even assuming they try to maintain a supply chain of food and water deliveries, that just means the cost never ends, and they would always need funding.

The key problem with the Mars One mission is the masses of people who would be required to fund it by continually watching the reality show will eventually get bored. Even if the show maintained a core viewership that would never leave, they would never represent the tens of millions of sustained viewers necessary to extract the kind of advertising revenue necessary to sustain the mission.

There is also the inevitable TRUE realization of what these people are signing up for means...a ONE WAY trip to Mars. People think that's amazing right now...but there is no rescue plan, there is no return ship, there is no return period. It is a PERMANENT LIFE CHANGE, on a scale no one on Earth has experienced before. Psychologists can't gauge the effect of that on people, even if they try. That will have to sink in on multiple levels before people finally get it, and when they do, I'd say as much as half the people who sign up for a one way trip to Mars end up snapping once they are stuck there for a LONG year of MASSIVE hardship and the ever-present long-term threat of danger, going ape-S___ crazy, when they realize they are literally marooned on another planet with no hope of return...or at least, no hope unless the Mars One mission ends up building a rescue vessel (which would take years, so all these crazy people just keep on the crazy that whole time...you know what crazy people do to space missions...we've all seen the consequences of THAT via hollywood for enough years).

Mars One...exciting idea...bad idea. Anyway...

Maybe a bunch of hot nud3 ch!cks, and some "Big Brother" style in-house fights/arguments, drama etc, might keep the reality show going for a few decades ;D ... I wouldn't mind contributing towards the first part ;D ;D

Yeah...lol...thats where I thought this conversation was going!

I suspect a bunch of hot nude chicks in a big brother style escapade is probably the best way to get everyone killed. At some point your going to get a couple of jersey shore-esque guidos going at it over the chick with big tits, and next thing you know an airlock pops open because the fools are fighting in it....derp, there goes the Mars One mission! Oh, gee, and we got to see a bunch of people bleeding from their eyes while they all died a horrifying death...on live TV...over a pair of tits.... :-\

Man you are a buzz kill ;D... here I was thinking "happy thoughts" about "hot nud3 ch!cks à la Big Brother style" and you just killed them all in a gory fashion with bleeding eyes and what not ... I propose we all think happy thoughts about those nice ch!cks floating gently in the capsule and the all "airlocks are tightly sealed" ... in addition they all reach safely to Mars and when the ch!cks are getting old, they are safely brought back to earth and replaced with newer hotter ones to live on Mars until they too are replaced and the cycle goes on to keep us all happy ... so whenever we get worked up about DxO discussions, we can go watch them live (or 5 to 15 minutes delayed transmission). So, please, no more killing of the hot ch!cks ... if gore is absolutely necessary for TRPs, (in order to keep Mars mission funding alive and healthy), a few of the dudes can go ;D

 

[Rienzphotoz]

speaking of the view from space, here's a concise quote

Well said.

 

[jrista]

The really cool thing about viewing Earth from Mars is that Earth is inward of the solar system, rather than outward. It would exhibit phases like Venus does when viewed from Earth, as it orbits around the sun. So you would have New Earth phase, Waxing Earth Crescent, Waxing Earth Half, Waxing Earth Gibbous, Full Earth (largely obscured by the sun, only visible as it enters and leaves this phase, and then only moments after the sun has set on Mars), Waning Earth Gibbous, Waning Earth Half, Waning Earth Crescent.

Even cooler than Venus...with a powerful enough telescope, you could probably see the Moon's phases as well...what a sight that would be: Waxing Earth Crescent with a Waning Moon Half.

That would be an epic view ... one married guy from Qatar got selected to go on a one way journey to Mars, so maybe he'll get to see "Waning Earth Gibbous, Waning Earth Half, Waning Earth Crescent" etc

That would be one crazy trip. Maybe someone will bring along a 28" PlaneWave CDK and an ASA DDM160 mount for "Earth Observing".

I don't think it's going to happen, though. The sheer cost of such a trip is so astronomical, not even the world's most popular reality TV show could maintain the funding for it. It would become the single most expensive project the world has ever seen, and I don't think anyone can truly survive on Mars. Not permanently. Honestly, I think when the time comes, if they really do try, it'll end up being a disaster. There are SO many things that could go wrong, not the least of which is food and water supply problems, but also technical issues and personnel issues. Even assuming they try to maintain a supply chain of food and water deliveries, that just means the cost never ends, and they would always need funding.

The key problem with the Mars One mission is the masses of people who would be required to fund it by continually watching the reality show will eventually get bored. Even if the show maintained a core viewership that would never leave, they would never represent the tens of millions of sustained viewers necessary to extract the kind of advertising revenue necessary to sustain the mission.

There is also the inevitable TRUE realization of what these people are signing up for means...a ONE WAY trip to Mars. People think that's amazing right now...but there is no rescue plan, there is no return ship, there is no return period. It is a PERMANENT LIFE CHANGE, on a scale no one on Earth has experienced before. Psychologists can't gauge the effect of that on people, even if they try. That will have to sink in on multiple levels before people finally get it, and when they do, I'd say as much as half the people who sign up for a one way trip to Mars end up snapping once they are stuck there for a LONG year of MASSIVE hardship and the ever-present long-term threat of danger, going ape-S___ crazy, when they realize they are literally marooned on another planet with no hope of return...or at least, no hope unless the Mars One mission ends up building a rescue vessel (which would take years, so all these crazy people just keep on the crazy that whole time...you know what crazy people do to space missions...we've all seen the consequences of THAT via hollywood for enough years).

Mars One...exciting idea...bad idea. Anyway...

Maybe a bunch of hot nud3 ch!cks, and some "Big Brother" style in-house fights/arguments, drama etc, might keep the reality show going for a few decades ;D ... I wouldn't mind contributing towards the first part ;D ;D

Yeah...lol...thats where I thought this conversation was going!

I suspect a bunch of hot nude chicks in a big brother style escapade is probably the best way to get everyone killed. At some point your going to get a couple of jersey shore-esque guidos going at it over the chick with big tits, and next thing you know an airlock pops open because the fools are fighting in it....derp, there goes the Mars One mission! Oh, gee, and we got to see a bunch of people bleeding from their eyes while they all died a horrifying death...on live TV...over a pair of tits.... :-\

Man you are a buzz kill ;D... here I was thinking "happy thoughts" about "hot nud3 ch!cks à la Big Brother style" and you just killed them all in a gory fashion with bleeding eyes and what not ... I propose we all think happy thoughts about those nice ch!cks floating gently in the capsule and the all "airlocks are tightly sealed" ... in addition they all reach safely to Mars and when the ch!cks are getting old, they are safely brought back to earth and replaced with newer hotter ones to live on Mars until they too are replaced and the cycle goes on to keep us all happy ... so whenever we get worked up about DxO discussions, we can go watch them live (or 5 to 15 minutes delayed transmission). So, please, no more killing of the hot ch!cks ... if gore is absolutely necessary for TRPs, (in order to keep Mars mission funding alive and healthy), a few of the dudes can go ;D

Hey man, you can get all that right here on earth! No need to wait for Mars One! ;D Of course, if everyone on the mars one mission does eventually go bonkers, there is no reason to assume they wont all take their clothes off like normal crazy ppl and have crazy martian orgies while their minds disappear...you never know!

 

[Rienzphotoz]

The really cool thing about viewing Earth from Mars is that Earth is inward of the solar system, rather than outward. It would exhibit phases like Venus does when viewed from Earth, as it orbits around the sun. So you would have New Earth phase, Waxing Earth Crescent, Waxing Earth Half, Waxing Earth Gibbous, Full Earth (largely obscured by the sun, only visible as it enters and leaves this phase, and then only moments after the sun has set on Mars), Waning Earth Gibbous, Waning Earth Half, Waning Earth Crescent.

Even cooler than Venus...with a powerful enough telescope, you could probably see the Moon's phases as well...what a sight that would be: Waxing Earth Crescent with a Waning Moon Half.

That would be an epic view ... one married guy from Qatar got selected to go on a one way journey to Mars, so maybe he'll get to see "Waning Earth Gibbous, Waning Earth Half, Waning Earth Crescent" etc

That would be one crazy trip. Maybe someone will bring along a 28" PlaneWave CDK and an ASA DDM160 mount for "Earth Observing".

I don't think it's going to happen, though. The sheer cost of such a trip is so astronomical, not even the world's most popular reality TV show could maintain the funding for it. It would become the single most expensive project the world has ever seen, and I don't think anyone can truly survive on Mars. Not permanently. Honestly, I think when the time comes, if they really do try, it'll end up being a disaster. There are SO many things that could go wrong, not the least of which is food and water supply problems, but also technical issues and personnel issues. Even assuming they try to maintain a supply chain of food and water deliveries, that just means the cost never ends, and they would always need funding.

The key problem with the Mars One mission is the masses of people who would be required to fund it by continually watching the reality show will eventually get bored. Even if the show maintained a core viewership that would never leave, they would never represent the tens of millions of sustained viewers necessary to extract the kind of advertising revenue necessary to sustain the mission.

There is also the inevitable TRUE realization of what these people are signing up for means...a ONE WAY trip to Mars. People think that's amazing right now...but there is no rescue plan, there is no return ship, there is no return period. It is a PERMANENT LIFE CHANGE, on a scale no one on Earth has experienced before. Psychologists can't gauge the effect of that on people, even if they try. That will have to sink in on multiple levels before people finally get it, and when they do, I'd say as much as half the people who sign up for a one way trip to Mars end up snapping once they are stuck there for a LONG year of MASSIVE hardship and the ever-present long-term threat of danger, going ape-S___ crazy, when they realize they are literally marooned on another planet with no hope of return...or at least, no hope unless the Mars One mission ends up building a rescue vessel (which would take years, so all these crazy people just keep on the crazy that whole time...you know what crazy people do to space missions...we've all seen the consequences of THAT via hollywood for enough years).

Mars One...exciting idea...bad idea. Anyway...

Maybe a bunch of hot nud3 ch!cks, and some "Big Brother" style in-house fights/arguments, drama etc, might keep the reality show going for a few decades ;D ... I wouldn't mind contributing towards the first part ;D ;D

Yeah...lol...thats where I thought this conversation was going!

I suspect a bunch of hot nude chicks in a big brother style escapade is probably the best way to get everyone killed. At some point your going to get a couple of jersey shore-esque guidos going at it over the chick with big tits, and next thing you know an airlock pops open because the fools are fighting in it....derp, there goes the Mars One mission! Oh, gee, and we got to see a bunch of people bleeding from their eyes while they all died a horrifying death...on live TV...over a pair of tits.... :-\

Man you are a buzz kill ;D... here I was thinking "happy thoughts" about "hot nud3 ch!cks à la Big Brother style" and you just killed them all in a gory fashion with bleeding eyes and what not ... I propose we all think happy thoughts about those nice ch!cks floating gently in the capsule and the all "airlocks are tightly sealed" ... in addition they all reach safely to Mars and when the ch!cks are getting old, they are safely brought back to earth and replaced with newer hotter ones to live on Mars until they too are replaced and the cycle goes on to keep us all happy ... so whenever we get worked up about DxO discussions, we can go watch them live (or 5 to 15 minutes delayed transmission). So, please, no more killing of the hot ch!cks ... if gore is absolutely necessary for TRPs, (in order to keep Mars mission funding alive and healthy), a few of the dudes can go ;D

Hey man, you can get all that right here on earth! No need to wait for Mars One! ;D Of course, if everyone on the mars one mission does eventually go bonkers, there is no reason to assume they wont all take their clothes off like normal crazy ppl and have crazy martian orgies while their minds disappear...you never know!

Although we can get "all that right here on earth", there is a problem with that, for old married guys like me ... you see when it's available right here, the wife no like, coz she thinks I might action my thoughts ... but if its in Mars, she'll feel safe that the old man can't go there and that everything is just harmless/wishful happy thoughts ... but she don't know the old man gets quite a bit of pleasure from happy thoughts ;D
But I must confess that I do find your idea of people going bonkers, clothes off, crazy ppl, martian orgy, minds disappear etc very very exciting ;D ;D ;D