Getting away from it all
More than 2,000 folks have applied to be guinea pigs in the European Space Agency's 520-day "Mission to Mars'' simulation, according to a recent Associated Press story. There are 12 spots open for people who want to spend a year-and-a-half in cramped quarters with bad food. (And really, how many of us want to go back to the halcyon days of dorm life? Ooh, wait, this "trip'' forbids drinking and smoking, so it's dorm life at Bob Jones University at that.) No word in the story on the situation vis-a-vis sex.
You need a high tolerance for boredom to be welcomed aboard, and this explains why Canadians are welcome to apply. And why Americans aren't. Who wants to be cooped up with a bunch of French and Swedes anyhow?
We'll have our own isolation simulation, and it will be way better, I bet. We know how to make a trip to Mars fun. As long as somebody brings Yahtzee. And a keg or two.
You need a high tolerance for boredom to be welcomed aboard, and this explains why Canadians are welcome to apply. And why Americans aren't. Who wants to be cooped up with a bunch of French and Swedes anyhow?
We'll have our own isolation simulation, and it will be way better, I bet. We know how to make a trip to Mars fun. As long as somebody brings Yahtzee. And a keg or two.
posted by Michael Riley at 9:56 AM
3 Comments:
I wish we could send all the polititians on a mission to the sun.
We'll have to send them at night when it's not so hot.
Psst. Spooky Ol' Pat doesn't get that joke.
Would be great if paps, (a.k.a pat) and Paris Hilton could be space-mates...she has supposedly found God and he can tell her ALL about him and recite Bible passages to her (the paps abridged version of course)..Paris thought she was claustrophobic before..paps would bore her to death first anyway..
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