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Mars Mission: 100,000 Apply For One-Way Death Trip To Red Planet
How many people would be willing to travel millions of miles in a fetid, stinking can just to die on an arid, toxic dust planet from radiation poisoning, starvation, or both?
More than 100,000 people, apparently.
That's the number who have applied to take part in the first one-way colonisation mission to Mars.
The Mars One project is an ambitious plan - generally regarded as terminally implausible - to send humans to the red planet by 2022. The success of the venture relies on solving a vast range of problems - both financial (the first mission has an estimated cost of $6 billion) and technical. It's not known how humans could get to Mars without incurring huge doses of radiation, for instance, or how they would be able to survive for more than a short time on the surface without a proven means to grow food or a local water supply.
But that hasn't stopped Bas Lansdorp, Mars One CEO and co-founder, from publicising the attempt - or, as it turns out, 100,000 people applying to take part...............
How many people would be willing to travel millions of miles in a fetid, stinking can just to die on an arid, toxic dust planet from radiation poisoning, starvation, or both?
More than 100,000 people, apparently.
That's the number who have applied to take part in the first one-way colonisation mission to Mars.
The Mars One project is an ambitious plan - generally regarded as terminally implausible - to send humans to the red planet by 2022. The success of the venture relies on solving a vast range of problems - both financial (the first mission has an estimated cost of $6 billion) and technical. It's not known how humans could get to Mars without incurring huge doses of radiation, for instance, or how they would be able to survive for more than a short time on the surface without a proven means to grow food or a local water supply.
But that hasn't stopped Bas Lansdorp, Mars One CEO and co-founder, from publicising the attempt - or, as it turns out, 100,000 people applying to take part...............
