Mars One

[Leshma]

If they really send someone on the trip with no return, I bet they will send some highlanders (natives of Tibet, Andes or Ethiopian mountains).

[Rumblood]

I am SO ready to do this.

Won´t happen because of my medical conditions, though.But I´d definately do it.

Maybe I should write to them that I want to participate as medical testing object haha

They don't expect you to live, so who cares about the medical conditions?

[zagibu]

Is it possible to sling nuclear waste into the sun?

And if so, what are the consequences?

Hitting the sun with all the nuclear waste on earth would be like hitting earth with 1 kg of nuclear waste. This comparison is based on mass alone.

[Leshma]

Hitting the Sun with nuclear waste is like feeding the plant with carbon dioxide.

But Kafein is right, it's too costly. Also there's another thing, nuclear waste could prove to be useful in the future.

[Rumblood]

Hitting the sun with all the nuclear waste on earth would be like hitting earth with 1 kg of nuclear waste. This comparison is based on mass alone.

Hitting the sun with nuclear waste would be like pissing on a forest fire. Try it sometime and see how much of an effect you have.

[Utrakil]

Maybe someone figured out that this project might be a funny way to get rid of a lot of useless weirdos. And the good thing about it: nobody has to force them... they apply.

[Son Of Odin]

Maybe someone figured out that this project might be a funny way to get rid of a lot of useless weirdos. And the good thing about it: nobody has to force them... they apply.

It's just expensive... Or maybe they send one sane group to space and then have hundreds and hundreds of fake training centers where NASA mass murders all the less intelligent people.

[Utrakil]

How expensive it is depends on your media marketing skills. if they make a TV show out of it they might make profite. I would buy a coffee mug with the face of a darwinawardwinning volunteer.

[Kafein]

Hitting the sun with all the nuclear waste on earth would be like hitting earth with 1 kg of nuclear waste. This comparison is based on mass alone.

1kg ? Do you know how heavy the sun is ?

Hitting the sun with nuclear waste would be like pissing on a forest fire. Try it sometime and see how much of an effect you have.

Depends on the size of your forest fire.



Literal Kafein strikes again

[B3RS3RK]

They don't expect you to live, so who cares about the medical conditions?

Oh, thanks for trying to comfort me.

I think I might apply.Can´t hurt.

I dont know what to do with my live anyway, so I might aswell try and go to mars

[Overdriven]

How expensive it is depends on your media marketing skills. if they make a TV show out of it they might make profite. I would buy a coffee mug with the face of a darwinawardwinning volunteer.

Well judging by all the weird nutters they put on Big Brother and how successful that was for so many years, I'd gamble that crazy people on a rocket to Mars would generate huge amounts of money. Just imagine the money they could get from granting the television rights to various countries TV stations.

[Leesin]

Inb4 they kill eachother.

It's a cool idea though, I would apply if I didn't have a son and a girlfriend.

[zagibu]

1kg ? Do you know how heavy the sun is ?

No, I don't, I checked the mass on wikipedia. It's roughly a third of a million times heavier than earth. I also googled how much nuclear waste is on earth and the first result said 1000 tons. So yeah, it's more like 3 kg, but who cares?

[Oberyn]

Hitting the Sun with nuclear waste is like feeding the plant with carbon dioxide.

But Kafein is right, it's too costly. Also there's another thing, nuclear waste could prove to be useful in the future.

This is true, one of the most profitable areas right now for nuclear science is the "recycling" or reprocessing of what was previously considered to be useless nuclear waste. The more the technology progresses, the more power can be extracted from the "waste". It doesn't make the material any less radioactive and doesn't lessen the need for storage afaik...maybe eventually shooting tons of radioactive waste into the sun could become economically viable, if we manage to create a space elevator or some other way of putting stuff in orbit that doesn't require such a huge fuel and technical investment.

[Kafein]

No, I don't, I checked the mass on wikipedia. It's roughly a third of a million times heavier than earth. I also googled how much nuclear waste is on earth and the first result said 1000 tons. So yeah, it's more like 3 kg, but who cares?

you got lucky, I didn't knew the numbers and supposed the Sun was heavier than that.

Btw, developping fast neutron reactor research again as uranium reserves are depleting seems to be a much more promising project.