what if we send criminals to Mars
By starsailover
@starsailover (7829)
Mexico
December 28, 2010 5:41pm CST
I have read the news about a future mission to Mars and it seems very exciting to me that we continue the exploring of life outside the earth. It's awesome and at the same time we haven't made such an important plan since the time that men have landed to the moon.
Scientists Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University and Paul Davies of Arizona State University have proposed making a future mission to Mars a one-way trip.
"The purpose of doing this is to save money, to put it bluntly," Davies tells NPR's Audie Cornish.
At the same time I have talked with my aunt and she has suggested a very interesting possibility to start a mission to mars: won't be a good idea if we send people that have been condemned to death penalty,some of the worst criminal to start a colonization to Mars, so that instead of killing them their lives would be used for the sake of the whole humanity and at the same time we could be sure that their "freedom" won't be a menace anymore?. After hearing my aunt I have started to think that this may be a very good idea. Maybe NASA should take this as an option.
And what about you guys: don't you think it would be a good idea if we send the worst criminals to Mars to start the first colonization group in planet Mars? Share your ideas.
3 responses
@jak2010 (1550)
• Papua New Guinea
29 Dec 10
If would be but on the humanitarian grounds, it would be unfair. Criminal activities are done in many different forms and soceity only punishes those are caught. What about those white collar criminals who walk around free? It is not just fair. It will also be an expensive exercise and more and more people will be drained through taxes to fund their trip to mars, and there will be more destitute and more and more criminal activity will be seen arond. It will not solve the problem of crime, but it will exelerate.
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@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
29 Dec 10
Hi jak: I think you should consider the fact that if we compare this option with a capital punishment, sending criminals to mars is a humanitary punishment. At the same time, yes, it's an expensive exercise but even if that's true it's a project (mars colonization) that may takes place so the money will be invested wether we use criminals as space travelers or not. And it's not an exercise, I think that mars colonization will help us, specially because the earth is near its and so we have to start exploring new worlds 
ALVARO
ALVARO@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
30 Dec 10
Hi again jak: I didn't know they sent the prisoners to work here in America or in Australia 
. And well, I must admit at the same time that you are right on the fact that sending humans to mars will cost billions but at the same time every human progress has cost a lot.
ALVARO
. And well, I must admit at the same time that you are right on the fact that sending humans to mars will cost billions but at the same time every human progress has cost a lot.
ALVARO@jak2010 (1550)
• Papua New Guinea
30 Dec 10
You are convincing, but I still believe mars colonization will still be expansive at the expense of the tax payers. They do well in confined cages or underground cellars, very inexpensive exercise still at the expense of the tax payers. One sad thing about this government system where criminal are housed and fed by tax payers who are the victmins of their wrong doing. On the basis, may be your suggestion of them going to mars will help them to settle by their own sweat, the same idea used before in new lands like America and Australia which were prison for the convicts in England and elswhere.
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@goodhunter (334)
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29 Dec 10
I think that is a good idea. By sending the to mars its like being sent to the point of no return. The only problem is the sentence of all convicted criminals is life without the possibility of parole.
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@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
29 Dec 10
Hi good hunter: Maybe not. Do you remember, when humans landed the moon for the first time, we could watch it on tv. So I think that we have the technologies to stablish communication between the earth and another planet with a human colonization. It sounds very exciting to me.
ALVARO
@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
28 Dec 10
I think the Martians will have a violent reaction to that!
Try anyway, star wars might yet be an exciting project!
Merry Christmas!
Try anyway, star wars might yet be an exciting project! Merry Christmas!@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
29 Dec 10
Hi eileen leyva: Thanks for your answer. That was funny , hope martions won't take it as an agression to them but for me it would be an amazing opportunity to start a very difficult exploration.
ALVARO
, hope martions won't take it as an agression to them but for me it would be an amazing opportunity to start a very difficult exploration.
ALVARO