xkcd #2978: Stranded

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At least they're not alone down there.

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Reminds me of the old Niven stories about asteroid belt-miners, who disdainfully referred to being on the surface of a planet as being at "the bottom of a hole."
- I'm a space nut, and people often ask me about colonizing Mars. And I always think, sure I guess you could, but why? Once you've made it to orbit, make the most of it, why put yourself down at the bottom of a gravity well? Just colonize orbit, asteroids, or small moons. That's where the resources are, and that's where it's easy to move them.
  
  Humans are very picky. Must have certain amount of gravity, need to see green stuff, can’t handle radiation etc. it’s is as if they were built to be on a specific planet and nowhere else.
  
  Given the means to process, refine and build in zero g, I'd love to have my own asteroid.
Rorschach: lifts mask, scratches ear
I dunno. I heard they only brought one set of clothes, and they have to wear those clothes until February without being able to wash them.

Doesn't sound pleasant.
- The fact that the initial mission duration was 8 days makes it unlikely this is true, and with multiple cargo missions since then (for example two already this August), it is even more unlikely they wouldn't have received a new set of clothes by now.
- Spaceships stink. Common trope in sci-fi.
Wonder how much willpower they have

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