The Universal
Council was amused by the number of alleged volunteers for a one way trip to
Mars. We appreciate thinking about inter-planetary
missions is good for broadening your minds.
Indeed we sometimes illustrate our thinking with small, fair and simple
planets. We are also fairly sure this
ultimate TV reality show abomination won’t actually happen for various
reasons. Humans are not quite ready to start
messing up another planet and should perhaps be applying their focus to the
many known issues closer to home.
We have also
chuckled at your scoffing lemmings for allegedly organising their own suicide
by jumping of cliffs. We can’t decide if
this makes them more or less advanced than humans who are just allowing their
own deaths to happen due to a lack of focus and alignment on figuring out the
causes and cures for aging and diseases.
It is irrational that you are incapable of organising and putting more
effort into this.
We do still
anticipate that decent treatments for aging will be developed within the next
50 years. Consequently volunteering for
a one way ticket to Mars is a particularly stupid and ill-considered thing to
do. However we are not particularly
surprised at the large number of volunteers that are allegedly willing to
volunteer for such a mission. Stupid and
ill-considered actions still seem to be part of the very essence of being human
and we hope you will mature as a species fairly quickly in the coming
years. If part of natural selection is
that a few people become dead famous by going to Mars then that wouldn’t hugely
bother us. It’s the cost of the mission
that could be better invested on earth to save the lives of many that irks.
We won’t detail
the issues with living on Mars here (water food, air, healthcare etc). Our thinking is that for most would be
participants a similarly ‘out of this world’ experience could be achieved at a
great deal lower cost by taking a one way ticket to a typical slum. Using the surplus funds from not going to
Mars and holding a competition to develop sanitation, healthcare, education and
fun in two or perhaps more of these areas is likely to provide a good deal
better entertainment than you would get on Mars. Six billion US dollars which is the alleged
cost of sending 4 people there could certainly transform thousands of lives if
it was spent on other projects.
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