What would you decide what to do with this annoying, and dangerous Mars traveller?
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January 10th, 2022
You are on your way to Mars, together with seven others.
It takes six months to get there, and you are three weeks in.
You are all trained and tested (physically, psychologically) and you all have different tasks to do, both in the ship and later on, on Mars.
One person is extremely childish, annoying, controlling, and dangerous (he’s threatening to mess with the dials and stuff).
It was decided that the crew can vote on certain subjects if they arise (75% is the minimum to make a subject/decision pass).
The question is raised to get rid of said person or not.
Bear with me, there is a small air locked door that can be used to eject stuff (20’’ x 20’’)
What’s your personal vote?
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Detain and watch (and do psychological evaluation & treatment), but do not eject. The cause of the change in personality needs to be investigated.
I would have to grin and bear with it until Mars was reached.
A air lock that is only 20“x20” isn’t good for much since you’d have to kill the person and then chop them up to get them to pass out of the craft.
And who is going to clean up the mess??
NO THANKS!
OMG there is always one in every crowd that has to be a douche weinee. I vote him off the aircraft.
Three weeks in? So, that’s like 10% of the way there. I vote we restrain him and turn back, if this person is making it too unsafe to continue with him. We can’t throw him out. He can’t be sentenced to death for being childish, or even for making threats. Turning back would cost a lot of money, but at least we wouldn’t be murderers…?
I feel like I’m taking this too seriously. I’m sorry, I’m German.
Now I feel like a murderer.
On such a mission, everyone is trained in everything, as a contingency that one ore more of the people become incapacitated. He is therefore expendable.
Space him.
I am also German
Can you communicate with ground control?
Send him to sick bay and try and discover the cause of his behaviour as he could very well be the canary in the mine , the first one to be affected in some way.
Get doctor to do all tests and observe him and observe if he gets better or worse if any meds given.
If detailed psychological profiles were done during training, the captain should have copies of them. If there had been any question of his stability, he should have been dropped from the crew. What signs were in the profile? If ground control can be reached, what does the psych advisor on the ground say?
And shouldn’t there be a head doc on the mission team? Seems like anyone could be susceptible to behavioral disturbances in a completely unknown and stressful situation.
Isolation causes unexpected personality changes. The space program tests extensively, but it can’t be expected to weed out the ones to be affected without fail. It is possible for these people to have ten prior missions go smoothly, but then lose it. That is why I feel duct tape to be the best solution.
You can’t allow one person to jeopardise the entire mission and possibly get everyone killed. I’d drop him off at the nearest asteroid and pick him up on the way back.
If he is dangerous and jeopardizing the mission then drug him into a coma or some sort of suspended state. He may becomes of some value later on Mars.
Also, the hatch at about 50cm per side, and a 70cm diagonal, should be big enough to fit him through. Might have to squeeze him a little bit, but it should be doable.
Everybody knows a airlock has 2 airtight doors. It’s not like a roll-down window on your car…
I wouldn’t think of eating a male (former) crew member. Probably too tough and gamey. A female might taste alright…
@ragingloli I’m glad that you and I, being Europeans, understand the Imperial system.
Obviously I had thought of adding a wide enough hatch in my ship.
They don’t necessarily need their spacesuit anymore.
And I had fit, slim astronauts in mind.
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Thanks, @ll, for playing; this was fun to read!
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@kritiper Funny that you say that; the outside door is a roll down door!
And yes, it’s a chute, lengthy enough to squeeze an adult in (with some persuasion).
@rebbel
Obviously I had to convert those colonial moon units to real units first.
@ragingloli Obviously.
But we do that instantly, those conversions. ~
@rebbel You’ll have to squeeze him/her all the way in AND out with both doors open at the same time! (If you don’t chop them up first, that is.)
If you can inject enough air on the outside side of the inside door you can blow them out, if that works in your ship…and the ship’s course will be altered some…
“Here am I floating ‘round my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do” Poor guy, they kicked him out. Should have “Taken your protein pills and put your helmet on”. Ya think? From: “Ground control to Nuisance Tom” Apologies to David Bowie
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