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Re: Mars Explorers Wanted Posters

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Post by arethuza »

alexissantos wrote: post #25

If you dig these posters, you'll like these from Chop Shop: http://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/space-exploration-t... They partnered with The Planetary Society a while ago to make retro-style posters for both historic and present day robotic spacecraft.

Obligatory link to Wanderers with its Sagan voice over:

https://vimeo.com/108650530

Re: Mars Explorers Wanted Posters

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Post by dogma1138 »

fotcorn wrote: post #27

Similar posters from SpaceX with a tourism theme: https://shop.spacex.com/accessories/mars-phobos-deimos-poste... https://shop.spacex.com/accessories/mars-olympus-mons-poster... https://shop.spacex.com/accessories/mars-valles-marineris-po...

To be fair NASA has those too: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/

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Post by _asummers »

alexissantos wrote: post #25

If you dig these posters, you'll like these from Chop Shop: http://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/space-exploration-t... They partnered with The Planetary Society a while ago to make retro-style posters for both historic and present day robotic spacecraft.

Those are fantastic! I didn't know I was going to order art today but I guess that's happening.

Re: Mars Explorers Wanted Posters

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Post by _asummers »

copperheart wrote: post #21

It would be thrilling if the current state of our space exploration was on a level suggested by these posters. Are we sending people to farm Martian soil or explore the Martian terrain anytime soon? Obviously not. So, honest question: what is the point of these posters?

Pretend you're a 5 year old kid and you get one of these posters. You go to school for 13 or so years wanting to be an astronaut. Then you join the Air Force or go to Caltech or something, all with the desire to one day be the first man on Mars. 10-15+ more years of training, and you're finally an astronaut. Still think it'll be unreasonable in 30 years?

Re: Mars Explorers Wanted Posters

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Post by TACIXAT »

So this is how programmers finally go remote. We need people to grow food, survey land, build things, but you can just code from Earth and transfer it to Mars. You'll need to be in an office on Earth though.

Re: Mars Explorers Wanted Posters

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Post by awesomerobot »

I really wish they'd hire an actual painter — the vectorized style emulates a painted style, but seems to lack the quality of what they're trying to reproduce.

The astronauts in these posters are really poorly rendered in general and quite muddy in some places (the we need you poster seems to be a different, somewhat superior art style).

Don't get me wrong, these are nice, originally had a smaller budget than wide reproduction/consumption — but in my opinion are about 80% of where they should be.

Re: Mars Explorers Wanted Posters

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Post by mikeash »

erikb wrote: post #3

God damn it. There is NO NEED to sell it to me. Tell me where to apply, NASA!

Apply here: http://astronauts.nasa.gov

If you want to go to Mars, now is probably a good time to start astronaut training. If you get in, you'd probably be about at the prime of your astronaut career when the time came to pick people to go.

Re: Mars Explorers Wanted Posters

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Post by mikeash »

copperheart wrote: post #21

It would be thrilling if the current state of our space exploration was on a level suggested by these posters. Are we sending people to farm Martian soil or explore the Martian terrain anytime soon? Obviously not. So, honest question: what is the point of these posters?

How soon is soon? 5 years isn't going to happen, but 15-20 is quite possible the way things are going right now.
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