[ExI] one way trip to mars

[Mike Dougherty]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> In other words: sure, you can get warm bodies that way.  But mere
> warm bodies are not all you need - most things of interest on a Mars
> mission that you can do with unskilled labor, you can do better with
> teleoperated robots controlled by skilled labor.  (The main thing you
> can't do that way - make babies - is, if isolated to itself, almost of
> "flags and footprints" value: symbolic, and part of the solution, but
> not by itself the thing you'd need to do to establish a truly viable,
> self-sustaining colony.)

So I'll put your name on the list (next to mine) that going to mars
"in-person" is a silly idea.  Send the machines.