If you've always wanted to live on a distant world, Dutch company Mars One wants to give you your chance to settle on the red planet. There's only one catch: You'll never be able to return to Earth.
Next year, Mars One will hold a worldwide lottery to select 40 people to train to be civilian astronauts. That group will be sent to live in a desert simulation for three months, after which the initial pool will be whittled down to 10. By 2023, this group will be sent to Mars to form the first permanent human settlement.
According to Bas Lansdorp, founder of Mars One, "We will send humans to Mars in 2023. They will live there the rest of their lives. There will be a habitat waiting for them, and we'll start sending four people every two years."
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How the hell do I sign up for this?
In all honesty, if it all goes ahead it'll be incredible. Can you just imagine what that would be like? With the way technology is going we could have live streams beamed straight to us. We would watch humans live and die on another planet. It's almost Truman-like. This is genuinely brilliant.
E: They'd send four people every two years. Fair enough, living with the other nine might be a bore but you'd be on God damn Mars! I assume that the 10 people chosen would be people they believe would get along well so, if you were picked, the people you were with would be suitable for you.
This post has been edited by TheGreatGig23 on Monday, Jul 30 2012, 21:18
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The catch is they don't actually send you to the planet, they just send you to the confectionery giant's HQ for a guided tour and a 6 month supply of fun sized mars bars.
Does sound like total bollocks though, those crazy Dutch and their crazy ideas.
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Didn't it take thousands of settlers migrating to the Western U.S. for communities of even a few hundred to gain footholds there? Somehow I don't think sending ten people to Mars is going to amount to much. One little storm, disease outbreak, major accident of any kind and there goes our entire human population on Mars.
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QUOTE (Mr.Funny12 @ Monday, Jul 30 2012, 22:33)
Anyones else believe in aliens?
In all honesty sag is right. Its too easy to loose ten people.
What if we go check up on them and they're all f*cking crusty dead and sh*t lmao. Or what if it's a prank, we scare the living sh*t out of them by pretending we're aliens by flying random stuff over their heads every here and there lol.
Very rarely do we have the honour of reading something as outlandish as this, being presented so seriously. It's next to impossible that NASA or the ESA will be on Mars a manned mission by 2023, but the idea that a private company will have achieved a fully functioning, self sufficient base for 10 private customers / lucky winners is beyond fictional. Sounds like something for Scientology to propose for its highest donatees.
