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veen  ·  3638 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I do not believe you, NASA

Well, it's never implied that the first person on Mars needs to survive. This episode of This American Life has an interview with someone who wants to go to Mars (Act 3), and she's totally okay with not surviving there.