Mars Colonization: 200,000 People Apply To Live On Red Planet

[Blue_Tires]

Plans to colonize Mars are set to proceed after 200,000 people applied to live on the Red Planet, even though they won’t ever return to Earth if they actually go.


The Mars One foundation announced on Tuesday that their planned expedition, which will see four individuals sent to Mars, has secured its lead suppliers for a 2018 unmanned mission. Elements needed for this trip included a communications satellite and a robotic lander.


If this first mission proves to be successful then they plan to send a manned shuttle to Mars in 2025. It’s believed that The Mars One foundation hopes that 2018′s journey will demonstrate the technology that human settlement can be achieved on Mars.

This is the first privately funded exploration mission of Mars, with the funds coming from partners and sponsors.

Bans Lansdorp, Mars One’s CEO, confirmed that over 200,000 have applied for the project since it was announced in April. The application window has now closed, but individuals selected for Round 2 will be informed by the end of this year.

Applicants are apparently fine with the knowledge that they would have to live out the rest of their lives on the Red Planet. This is because a one-way journey there severely reduces the company’s costs, plus there’s also the major factor that there’s no Kennedy Space Center launch pad on Mars at the moment.

http://www.inquisitr.com/1057932/mars-colonization-200000-people-apply-to-live-on-red-planet/
http://news.yahoo.com/one-way-mars-colony-project-draws-200-000-160956314.html

I'm tempted because it would allow me to get away from the nutbars here once and for all, but there's no guarantee that I wouldn't be stuck with a different set of nutbars on Mars...

[Skink]

1. Beam me up

[longship]

2. I predict quick death, or cannibalism.

No food, little oxygen, very little water (none easily obtainable), cold as hell. Why would anybody expect to be able to have anything like a life there? When life support systems inevitably break down they'll all be dead. Not my idea of a good adventure.

[Blue_Tires]

3. There wouldn't be much to do the first 2-3 years other than scientific research

and procreation

[Dash87]

6. They need a space elevator for this sort of thing.

Getting supplies to Mars would be so expensive at the moment. If you could get supplies to a space station and have a dedicated cargo convoy, life on Mars will be possible. We aren't there yet.

Another problem - the time it takes to get to Mars - 150 to 300 days. Not exactly what I would call "on call." If something goes wrong, everyone dies.

Or they might all get eaten by ground-dwelling raptors. Where's Riddick when you need him?

[longship]

7. Good ol' Riddick. ;-)

Space elevator will never happen. It would be a huge terrorist magnet in today's political climate. Of course, in today's political climate it would never get built even if we had the tech in hand, which we don't anyway.

But your argument is entirely valid.

[meow2u3]

4. They plan on blowing up the Earth

[bigdarryl]

5. I hope most of them are tea party idiots