Bitchkoma
05-26-2009, 03:57 AM
I just read the most hopeful article about manned missions to colonize the other planets.
One-Way Mission to Mars: US Soldiers Will Go (http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/one-way-mission-to-mars-us-soldiers-will-go/)
[offsite:mryr56hk]An article published on Universe Today back in March of this year detailing former NASA engineer Jim McLane’s idea for on a one-way, one-person mission to Mars generated a lot of interest. The many comments on the subject posted here on UT and numerous other websites such as ABC News ranged from full support to complete disbelief of the idea. McLane’s concept has literally gone around the world, and a journalist from Spain, Javier Yanes who writes for the newspaper Publico shared with me his correspondence with a US soldier stationed in Afghanistan, who says that battle-hardened soldiers would be the perfect choice to send on a mission of no return to a new world. SFC William H. Ruth III says he and the men in the 101st Airborne Division are ready and willing to go.
SFC Ruth wrote, “While reading Jim McLane and Nancy Atkinson's thoughts on Space Colonization, I started to realize that we ALL have lost our way. We have become so consumed by petty differences and dislikes of others that we all have forgotten our pre destiny of something better.”
And what is the ’something better’ that Ruth envisions? Military personnel from different countries joining together to make “the ultimate sacrifice” of forging the way to establish an outpost on another world, like Mars.
“Here is an out of the box idea,” Ruth writes. “Let the heroes of ALL our countries, for once, risk the ultimate sacrifice for something greater than one man's idea. Maybe once let these men and woman that rise every morning and say 'today I will stand for something' and say 'evil will not prevail, not on my watch'. For once let them volunteer for us all, you never know, mankind, the human race. It might just catch on if we let it.”[/offsite:mryr56hk]
And he makes a good point in his letter to the LiveScience blog (http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/04/25/afghanistan-heroes-offer-to-colonize-moon-mars-and-beyond/)
[offsite:mryr56hk]Here is an idea: Send battle-hardened, strong-minded soldiers and marines on the long trips into space. We are conditioned to live with the bare minimal (of) life’s necessities and are trained to be prepared for … the worst conditions that any environment could throw at us.
Hell, me and my men will go, set up a colony somewhere and await colonists to arrive.
Me and most of my men are on our 3rd or 4th deployment into a combat area. We are scouts, reconnaissance specialists. We go before everyone else and spend time living off the land. Sounds just like the type of men needed for a long colonization journey.[/offsite:mryr56hk]
Ghost Recon: Red Planet
One-Way Mission to Mars: US Soldiers Will Go (http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/26/one-way-mission-to-mars-us-soldiers-will-go/)
[offsite:mryr56hk]An article published on Universe Today back in March of this year detailing former NASA engineer Jim McLane’s idea for on a one-way, one-person mission to Mars generated a lot of interest. The many comments on the subject posted here on UT and numerous other websites such as ABC News ranged from full support to complete disbelief of the idea. McLane’s concept has literally gone around the world, and a journalist from Spain, Javier Yanes who writes for the newspaper Publico shared with me his correspondence with a US soldier stationed in Afghanistan, who says that battle-hardened soldiers would be the perfect choice to send on a mission of no return to a new world. SFC William H. Ruth III says he and the men in the 101st Airborne Division are ready and willing to go.
SFC Ruth wrote, “While reading Jim McLane and Nancy Atkinson's thoughts on Space Colonization, I started to realize that we ALL have lost our way. We have become so consumed by petty differences and dislikes of others that we all have forgotten our pre destiny of something better.”
And what is the ’something better’ that Ruth envisions? Military personnel from different countries joining together to make “the ultimate sacrifice” of forging the way to establish an outpost on another world, like Mars.
“Here is an out of the box idea,” Ruth writes. “Let the heroes of ALL our countries, for once, risk the ultimate sacrifice for something greater than one man's idea. Maybe once let these men and woman that rise every morning and say 'today I will stand for something' and say 'evil will not prevail, not on my watch'. For once let them volunteer for us all, you never know, mankind, the human race. It might just catch on if we let it.”[/offsite:mryr56hk]
And he makes a good point in his letter to the LiveScience blog (http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/04/25/afghanistan-heroes-offer-to-colonize-moon-mars-and-beyond/)
[offsite:mryr56hk]Here is an idea: Send battle-hardened, strong-minded soldiers and marines on the long trips into space. We are conditioned to live with the bare minimal (of) life’s necessities and are trained to be prepared for … the worst conditions that any environment could throw at us.
Hell, me and my men will go, set up a colony somewhere and await colonists to arrive.
Me and most of my men are on our 3rd or 4th deployment into a combat area. We are scouts, reconnaissance specialists. We go before everyone else and spend time living off the land. Sounds just like the type of men needed for a long colonization journey.[/offsite:mryr56hk]
Ghost Recon: Red Planet