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78,000 to live on Mars: Have you signed up?
78,000 to live on Mars: Have you signed up?78,000 people have applied to live on Mars. Up to 3,000 will make the first cut, and the 28-40 finalists will spend seven years training before 4 finally get selected for a one-way trip to live on Mars. An artist drew this future portrait of Mars One astronauts and their colony on the Red Planet. 78,000 have already signed up to live on Mars, but Mars One CEO and co-founder Bas Lansdorp expects applications to keep pouring in: he's hoping half a million people will sign up for a one-way ticket to Mars. Bryan Versteeg / Mars One / Space.com | |
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My bf would love it if we'd both be able to go but seeing as he has MS it's not going to happen. I don't think the health plan on Mars will be all that great. |
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it would take fucking ages to get to work if i moved there. it takes long enough as it is. i bet amazon don't deliver either, and netflix definately isn't going to work, so fuck that | |
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wtf is there to do on Mars?? She Don't Speak..But She Remembers | |
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eat it a layer at a time, chocolate first, then the caramel, then the nougat | |
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Get the hell away from the crazy humans on this planet. | |
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She Don't Speak..But She Remembers | |
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[Edited 5/17/13 9:04am] She Don't Speak..But She Remembers | |
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i love planet earth. it will take longer than my lifetime to terraform mars into the paradise that earth is, now [Edited 5/17/13 9:04am] | |
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No, I couldn't imagine never seeing a tree, a bird, blue skies ever again. Now if I knew I was coming back, maybe. | |
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I can definitely see the lure of the adventure, but spend the energy and money fixing the problems on this planet before jumping off to others. . . *partypooper* I'm firmly planted in denial | |
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Yeah I understand your feelings, but from what I understand the budget first is using so little of the overall budget it's only a percentage of a penny, plus that money would barely make a dent in what really are the issues cause it aint the money it's what folks are doing with the money a lot of the time. And not least the discoveries and necessary technology made by these ventures always reflect back to us ordinary people in some way. .
. . Just remember we gave $700B just to bailout institutions not that long ago, no where near that kind of money is being spent on the space programs and technolocial advancement of the species, that put a lot of things into prespective to me. At least these type of programs reach out to educate and inspire the next generation. [Edited 5/17/13 9:52am] | |
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I'mma wait a generation or so for the radioactivity to spawn some three-tittied women before making the long-ass trip out there. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Me thinks it would turn into some sort of :
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. . Yeah, I know that argument and I'm down with scientific discovery and all that. I'd just like to see this planet get some real help before we physically move on to other planets. . And that help DOESN'T include bailing out robber barons. [Edited 5/17/13 10:27am] I'm firmly planted in denial | |
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Not if there was a 10 to 1 woman to man ratio. | |
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It's a 'one way' ticket.
Mars could be used to house prison inmates. ![]() Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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Seems like a whole lot of people would gladly go though. In hopes of creating a different type of society, but isn't that how it always starts. | |
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Bingo !! ![]() Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Different view.
And their planning on it being like a reality tv show. | |
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3000 people PAID to join? wow this is a scam... Darwinism wins! "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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Ew, how would you handle the dead, burial is out of the question, isn't it, I guess there's always cremation, indoors, then toss the ashes outside.
I don't think those signing up pay, I think it's outside investors, I just read mostly from the US and China. | |
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i'm sure in the application form they will say "dead people need not apply" or something like that. hopefully they are forward thinking and say "the undead need not apply". you don't want a bunch of zombies on mars. it's bad enough with the nazis hiding on the dark side of the moon | |
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By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Mars has no magnetic field. radiation problem. | |
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...and the air, trees, water. When it comes down to it, all there really will BE on Mars is 78,000 humans! My Legacy
http://prince.org/msg/8/192731 | |
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