<div dir="ltr">I disagree. What use is money when you're on Mars <i>and never returning to Earth</i>? <div><br></div><div>The only reason I would want to be paid is if I had dependants on Earth. </div><div><br></div><div>If NASA offered you a one way trip to Mars, including all the equipment needed to live there and start the first colony of humans, and you had no dependants - would you really care about a bank balance on Earth?</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:13 AM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There are plans under discussion to send humans to Mars, with many<br>
technical problems to be solved. A round trip will take many years and<br>
one suggestion is that settlers on Mars would stay there and never<br>
return to Earth.<br>
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One thought has occurred to me that I don't remember being discussed<br>
and it applies to all deep space missions.<br>
<br>
How do these travellers get paid if they never return to Earth?<br>
<br>
Money and status are the usual rewards for humans. But these<br>
travellers are not returning to Earth. If deep space travel requires<br>
volunteers prepared to work for nothing, going on what could be<br>
thought of as almost suicide missions, then you are going to get some<br>
very unusual (strange?) people applying.<br>
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BillK<br>
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