Mars Mission Keeps Busy Playing…Counter-Strike


As part of a study before people are actually sent to Mars, a team of volunteers spent 520 days locked inside a fake spaceship. To see if they could all stay alive and not, you know, kill each other.

It was mission success, as the six men – three from Russia and one each from China, Italy and France – emerged the other day safe and sound. So how’d they get along and not die of boredom?

Counter-Strike.

According to 32 year-old participant Alexander Smoleyevsky, whenever tensions threatened to boil over between the men, they’d all settle in for a few rounds of Counter-Strike.

Which only shows these were unique men, blessed with the patience required for the epic voyage for Mars. I mean, put me up against a camper and a cheat for 17 months and I won’t just get upset, I’ll kill them with my bare hands.

UPDATE 1-‘Mars crew’ played Counter-Strike to cool tempers [Reuters]


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