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You would still never see it, and the stress on the ship would never handle it.

Sure Akita and Micheal rain on my parade, anything else you want to kill while you're at it?.
So what if i die, i'll still be famous.

Adela did not specify when the trip is sheduled, technological limitations can have been solved

Count me out. I would more than likely **** in my adult size depends and have a stroke on the way up as I'll be in the retirement years by then.

And that's the earliest possible ? Then I'm going to be definitely too old for that type of thing, if I'm even still alive at nearly 62 years old by then.

Another submariner reporting in.....

For the sake of augment.... lets say the selection, training, and departure times were moved way up.....

I would go in a heartbeat. Just give me enough time to say bye to the wife and kid. Hell, I don't even need to pack. Wife understands that if something like this were to happen, and I was selected to go, she would fully support it. The kid would obviously miss me, but as long as we could still communicate in some form, she'd get over it. Maybe. If the trip was round trip, then there is the possibility of seeing my family again.

As to length of mission, doesn't really matter to me if it's several weeks or several years. I've done several underwater endurance runs while on a sub with the longest being 70 days. That is with no part of the boat, other then a mast or antenna, breaking the surface. After only a few days of being at sea, or in this case in space, the crew settles into a routine very quickly. The hard part to over come is the boredom.

Still, if the easiest is 2039, and assuming medical technology doesn't give us cybernetic bodies or something by then, I'd still should be able to squeak by on the age thing.

i'd go if i could still be 25.

With that kind of attitude I doubt you'd pass the stage 1 phase 2 formal hour interview.

There seems to be some confusion regarding the departure date ect, and how old you'll all be before you try your luck at the start of the selection program.

To finished this thread off, and to close it down I just want to say, I hope to have broken the back of this work-in-progress by Christmas, and hopefully will have it 90% of the writing done by next Autumn, prior to proof reading all of it for adjustments, before it is ready to be sent to the various recipients. I'm aiming for the finished product to be at around 450 to 480 pages in total. And I have to learn the fundamentals of all kinds of things related to space and engineering and flight mechanics ect as I go along.

I'm a full time Carer for Dad, like I was for Mum before I lost Mum on 14 Nov 2011.

As such I don't have that much free time to do the required research and work, as I have a routine that takes a fair amount of time. And when I am doing this work in progress after n hours of work on this different type of work my brain usually signals its had enough and starts to switch off, and I can't get back in the grove of doing this space work for a couple of days or so.

The 2039 date is 16 years from now, and the recipients **IF** it's implemented will have to follow my guidance to organise the program, set up the controlling organisation, and the voting rights, plus its finances,and then modify the existing technology launch vehicles, both for compatibility, and then mass production for the movement of construction crews and the mass delivery of material for the first construction site station I have devised, i.e the first of a set of 24 before they do the same for the constitution of the ship itself as America was on the right track in basic space station design, before their pork barrel politics produced a lot of umming and ahhhing.

Plus on top of all that the financial aspect I will have to deal with, both for the project, and globally, to fix the financial mess we are currently in, but as I told Mum before I lost her, it's all planned out in my head.

But America acting on its own did get to the Moon from a standing start in under 10 years, but this time it'll be group effort.

So, the 2039 date as I said was a ball park figure, and providing my time table is kept, this work will be out of my hands and into the hands of the recipients by late 2016, if not earlier, as I hit rough patches then after clearing them get on a roll where I can get a lot done.

So, 2026 could be a good date for things to really get moving.

Of course, if nowt/nothing/nada/zip happens this work will all have been for nothing. C'est la vie.

Now, that that is out of the way, the selection program will be open to you all aged 18 to 68.

The fitness test requirements of stage 1 phase 4 of the initial stage before the group stages will be structured for different requirements for each of the 5 age groups, namely 18 to 28, 28 to 38, 38 to 48, 48 to 58, and 58 to 68.

Without going into details and why, as there isn't enough space here for that, the fitness tests will be divided into body strength, weight lift, weight movement, and then cardiac test via the beep test, with for the push ups, sit ups, and beep test will be requirements dependent on which of the 5 age groups you fall into. i..e in 3 and then 6 minutes depending on your age group you will be required to do n number of correctly performed push ups, and then sit ups, the same for the beep test levels. All the fitness tests will have to be passed, with leniency on smaller framed women and men for the weight lift and movement, either the first time, or a second chance or you go home.

A final test after all that will have to be passed. It will consist of walking in a group with selector pace setters over a 5 mile course of rough but flat ground, with a 30 pound back pack in under 4 hours and 30 minutes, with a realistic target of 4 hours and 15 minutes, but 4 hours and 30 minutes is the cut off time.

The 4 hours and 30 minutes or under is not debatable, and must be met in order to progress in the selection program.

Those of you who are ex-military will know what a timed march entails.

Right, I hope I have joined enough dots, to satisfy your queries, as I will not be answering any more questions.

As I said before. Thank you all for all your replies.

Fair enough, if it happens it happens, no-one can say I didn't try.

But Space X will also be involved and in the big tent with all the rest, and on the board of the controlling organisation with voting rights. Participants for the crew, NOT the construction of the station and ship will have 4 weeks to get in shape if they get invited to the phase 4 fitness tests.

You'd have to read the entire thing to understand, and it'll be to big to be posted on here.

And its not a 'company' but an organisation.

As I said on my original post I was just sniffing the air, and testing the water of public opinion to see if members of the general population would want to go on such a venture.

Right, it's supper time. Bye.

Well you aren't Mars One though your cryptic plan shares similar traits, and I know that SpaceX is working with them. They are a non-profit organization. They have also detailed what their long term goals. You won't even give a why or a what. Several people in this thread said yes to a caretakers request to shoot them into space and they don't even know what they will be doing. Scary. Scary scary scary.