Max Arthur Wrote:@Violet Lilly Blossom, we have and are doing that repeatedly. NASA, Roscosmos, Mars Society, etc are all operating analogue stations to test things like isolation, desert/cold, and diet on small crews. There's only so much testing you can do, though. Half a century is high time for the real thing.
* Violet laughs.
Tell me... what do you know about exploration?
The time it takes is irrelevant... if you're not absolutely ready for the conditions you face: you're probably not going to make it.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
