So when the astronaut gets home will he teach us how Martians Grok things?

I don't think I'm qualified to be an astronaut, but hey, I'd sign on for this, as log as I can bring my laptop along and some games to pass the time away between dirt experiments, harvesting food in my hydroponic garden, and doing well you know, sciency stuff with some of the devices featured on dvice, I'm all up for Martian wind, hell maybe even throw in a self sustaining small nuclear generator and batteries while I wait for parts to build a wind turbine. Maybe I'll get to use some nanotechnology to do a bit of terraforming, just need to bring a few hundreds of thousands of gallons of water with me for my stay, just in case, I don't want to kill any Martians by melting their ice cap.

I'm willing to go.....you can forward my mailing address to the guys at NASA. Moreover i won't need any games to occupy me...i'll just need a phone link to my friend with whom i'll like to share my experiences with.....not that i'm complaning or anyhting.

Too bad the weather on Mars makes it close to impossible for anything like this to work. They have a dust storm the size of north america that sweeps the surface.

Would it be great if you could send a teen ager there who is in the final stages of growing up, so they become physically developed too as they reach their full physical maturity. A ten year old who will have all the products to make the stay as comfortable as possible until his voice changes. ! Girls! ! He would probably figure out how to get back to Earth without anyone else's help.

Send a girl and we might have generations born of the idea which can withstand the planets harsh weather until more people can arrive with the tools to help her flourish on the planet.
Or!

You could send me and see if it is true our bodies would adjust to the planets' gravity making it so we live longer. Unless that story I read about the gravity being less than Earths back bending gravity, that is. I already have an understanding of indoor green houses and sampling soil and such.

Whether I would survive the trip is another question.

Great Idea...
granted.. a little scary to be going to Mars with no confirmed return ticket. But unless I missed something, we are all destined to die somewhere... sure beats dying in a rush hour collision in Houston.
My suggestion would be to send TWO folks... still removes the huge challenge of the return technology problems, but provides companionship, two guys to do the lifting, someone to help me up when I fall or break my ankle, which for a solo traveler, would become a life threat rather than inconvenience. If they expect to stay there 3-5 years, before reinforcements arrived, seems very workable. Robot ships arriving with replenishment supplies and new BlueRay DVDs periodically. Have APPLE do the computer tech so the dependability is high, have Jeep develop a solar driven Marsbuggy. SIGN ME UP!

Okay, this is totally freaky. I was just musing about astronaut retirement, and how terminally ill or very old people could have that one last adventure and help build a Mars colony all in one shot. Kind of a win-win.

i know this sounds crazy ....but i would volunteer for this job....contact.......
contact:: nepsyadz@gmail.com

Yes, it was an interesting idea when Pierre Boulle (who wrote "Planet of the Apes" and "The Bridge on the River Kwai") suggested it in his 1964 novel "A Garden on the Moon"; then it was the Japanese plan to catch the Americans and Russians by surprise by launching a one-way mission to the moon. The volunteer was a Zen monk who got to live out his life tending his rock garden and meditating on the Earth in the sky.

I would go. As long have uplink to keep touch with Earth.

Dear all
When “Christophe Colomb” and others were heading at that time for "nowhere", some progresses have been made !
So, why the space community looks so shine to undertake a journey to Mars, bypassing any mannered project to moon, those being a non senseand waste of money, even if the fellow(s) involved as volunteers may probably die some weeks or months after landing, at least the would have show this is feasible for others, whom then may have a chance to return to Earth.
No need to ambitious programs, initially.
Just a vessel guided from Earth, programmed to land as Phoenix did , no communications excepting computer’s one, both way, and after landing, possibility for "crew" to send message via MRO and other mars orbiters saying, We did it, then to explore, collect, and store all data on mars, for the next mission (as planned with ARES5/Altair),to find It
This applies too, for space agencies in Russia - China - Japan - Europe.
Anyway, I would enjoy to fly to mars, like I’m sure so many persons.
I do have some specific capabilities for that, and expertise.
Pass on the message !
I’m pretty confident there are black programs under way, and not only from classified U.S military spaceplane’program(s) / Shrunk space's work, all, studying the concept
Jean-Bertrand PARIS
French citizen, commercial Pilot and expert for leaving in remote/hostile areas in the world, for months, during the past twenty years., witch is mostly needed to undertake the journey.
Jean-bertrandparis@hotmail.com

I would jump at the chance to go to Mars! Even if it is a one-way trip. Let's just hope if they build a Mars base, it doesn't get taken over by demons like in Doom 3.

Where do I sign up?

I'll go any day of the week.
You can track me and my genealogy from Magna carta to Domesday book.

I started packing my bags from the age of 5.

I am interested to go. I might be a human except humans who else knows this. I would.

I think I will succeed.