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How about a ONE-WAY trip to Mars?

EarlyMon said:
Mars and contestants - two words that never belong in the same sentence.
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Really. Can you imagine?! Just think of the cutthroat behavior on TV shows like Survivor or Big Brother--and those are just games! If it were actual life or death, I don't know...but I don't think it would be pretty.
 
You could not make crew selection a game. If you made a show you could not give anyone a vote.

And people who can't cooperate first and foremost have no place in space.
 
Last day to sign up!

One-way Mars trip: Application deadline for Martian colony nears | Fox News

Some more info about the selection process:

Regional reviewers for Mars One plan to select 50-100 candidates in each of
300 geographic regions in the world to move on to the Round 2 stage of the
application process.
After two more selection rounds ending in 2015, between 28 and 40 Mars
colonist candidates will be selected to be employed by Mars One. They will
then begin training for the private Mars mission. Following seven years of
training, a public vote will select the first group to be sent to Mars from among
these finalists, foundation officials have said.
You can apply for the Mars One mission here: Home - Mars One.
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I say we send all the murderers , rapists and sex offenders to Mar's and say here do what you want ..... you can rape and kill all the Martians you want .


If they don't get the Death penalty on earth , that'll be their other option :thumbup:
 
Bearsyzf said:
I say we send all the murderers , rapists and sex offenders to Mar's and say here do what you want ..... you can rape and kill all the Martians you want .
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I don't like the idea of this being the way the human race is represented in the universe.

As first contacts go, it hardly paints us in our most flattering light... carte blanche licence to rape and murder a new species.

I guess the likelihood of finding Martians is slim but still...
 
This isn't exactly related to the Mars theme of this thread, but:

British billionaire Richard Branson's commercial space venture Virgin Galactic took one step closer to carrying tourists into space with its latest supersonic test flight.

On Thursday, the company's rocket plane went Mach 1.43 in the skies above the Mojave Desert. It is the second time the aircraft, named SpaceShipTwo, has broken the sound barrier.

The test flight is a key milestone in Virgin Galactic's effort to be the world's first commercial space liner, which would make several trips a day carrying scores of paying customers into space for a brief journey.
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davoid said:
I don't like the idea of this being the way the human race is represented in the universe.

As first contacts go, it hardly paints us in our most flattering light... carte blanche licence to rape and murder a new species.

I guess the likelihood of finding Martians is slim but still...
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Yeah, i guess it would be wrong to dump our trash on them :o
 
Actually there is a scientific question here. Current Mars probes are carefully sterilized before they are sent out. A colony clearly can't be. So is there a potential conflict between this and any attempt to search for life on Mars? This could be the microbial equivalent of letting rats loose on isolated islands.
 
When we...er, they...you know, the brave, crazy folks who are going to move to Mars, get there, look at what they may see on the landscape: old super volcanoes!

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This image shows digital elevation data overlaid on daytime thermal infrared images of Eden Patera, a depression on Mars now thought to be the remnant of an ancient supervolcano. Red colors are relatively high and purple-gray colors are low. (NASA/JPL/GSFC/Arizona State University / October 2, 2013)
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Hiding among the craters in a pockmarked Martian plain lie supervolcanoes that were so powerful that their explosions left deep scars in the ground, scientists say. The first supervolcanoes ever found on Mars, described online Wednesday in the journal Nature, could go a long way to explaining the Red Planet
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They are still going forward with this. The list of candidates has been cut down to around 700.

Private Mars One Colony Project: 705 Astronaut Candidates Pass Latest Cut | Space.com

Several hundred would-be Mars colonists
have just had their hopes and dreams
dashed.
The Netherlands-based nonprofit Mars One ,
which aims to establish a Red Planet
settlement beginning in 2025, announced
Monday (May 5) that it had sliced its pool of
potential colonists from 1,058 down to 705.
The remaining astronaut candidates now
advance to an interview round with Mars
One's selection committee.
"We’re incredibly excited to start the next
phase of Round 2, where we begin to better
understand our candidates who aspire to
take such a daring trip," Mars One chief
medical officer Norbert Kraft said in a
statement. "They will have to show their
knowledge, intelligence, adaptability and
personality."
The 353 people who didn't make it were
eliminated for personal or medical reasons,
Mars One representatives said. The 418
men and 287 women who survived this
latest cut come from all over the world, with
313 hailing from the Americas, 187 from
Europe, 136 from Asia, 41 from Africa and
28 from Oceania.
Mars One plans to launch its first crew of
four Mars colonists in 2024, with touchdown
on the Red Planet coming in 2025.
Additional crews will blast off in two-year
increments thereafter, gradually building up
the off-world settlement. At the moment,
there are no plans to bring these pioneers
back to Earth.
The organization will mount several
unmanned Mars missions in the next decade
to demonstrate technologies and prepare for
the arrival of people. For example, it aims to
launch a robotic lander and orbiter in 2018,
a scouting rover in 2020 and six cargo
missions in 2022.
Mars One plans
to pay for all
this by
organizing a
global media
event around
the Mars
colonization
effort, from
astronaut
selection
through the
settlers' time on
the Red Planet.
It's already
negotiating with
media companies about showing Round 2
of the selection process on TV,
representatives said.
"Once the television deal is finalized and the
interviews begin, the stories of the 705
aspiring Martians will be shared with the
world," Mars One said in a press release
Monday.
More than 200,000 people applied to
become Mars One astronauts. In December,
the organization slashed this pool down to
1,058 candidates.
The interview round will slash the ranks
further, from 705 potential settlers down to
just a handful — enough to staff "several
international teams consisting of two
women and two men," Mars One's press
release states. These teams will train full-
time for their possible Mars mission.
"Whole teams and individuals might be
selected out during training when they
prove not to be suitable for the mission,"
Mars One wrote in the press release. "Mars
One will repeat the selection process
regularly to train additional teams to replace
eliminated teams and crews of settlers that
have successfully left Earth to live on Mars."
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