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The company, Mars One, announced on Tuesday its astronaut selection criteria, of which mental resilience and a strong sense of purpose are considered important traits. Mars One’s goal is to establish the first human settlement on Mars in 2023.
In the first half of 2013, Mars One will begin its global search for the best candidates for the mission. Six teams of four will be chosen from the influx of candidates, and each of which will undergo 8 years of training needed to travel to and live on Mars.
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Oh, come on! You know you want to do it…
Blake on January 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM
Do we really want to seed other planets with hipster,douche-bag anti-capitalist emo Leties?
catmman on January 10, 2013 at 6:29 PM
Sure, I’ll do it. My kids are adults and my wife could use the rest. And it’s not as if I’ve got more interesting travel plans.
RadClown on January 10, 2013 at 6:31 PM
Get off this planet, and leave it to the fascist progressives and muslems?
Sign me up.
Rebar on January 10, 2013 at 6:33 PM
Mars has no magnetosphere to speak of, so the planet is bombarded with Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) and raw gamma radiation from solar flares. Lead-lined spaceships will become lethally radioactive via secondary radiation. And there’s no known way to block GCRs short of a planet-sized Van Allen Belt.
Should be quite an agonizing death, but hey, you’ll be famous! Don’t let an ignorance of high-energy physics dampen your enthusiasm.
DarthBrooks on January 10, 2013 at 6:39 PM
Can we nominate people?
Warner Todd Huston on January 10, 2013 at 6:42 PM
Shouldn’t someone introduce these people to the folks who want to get Piers Morgan deported?
radjah shelduck on January 10, 2013 at 6:42 PM
If they zap my memory, I’m not going!
OldEnglish on January 10, 2013 at 6:49 PM
Let’s load ‘em up on the B-ship with the other hair-dressers, telephone sanitizers, etc. and send them to Golgafrinchim.
gregbert on January 10, 2013 at 6:54 PM
8 years of training?
Ya know, perhaps this Mars group could contact the Hollywood celebs who were going to move out of the US if Bush got elected. Hold ‘em to their word.
JetBoy on January 10, 2013 at 7:32 PM
I’d go, but I can’t leave my guns.
TexasDan on January 10, 2013 at 7:35 PM
The “leaving and never coming back” idea seems extreme, but it’s not all that much different than leaving Europe for the New World in the 16th century.
acasilaco on January 10, 2013 at 7:58 PM
This is precisely why I am d@mn near frantic that we have a functioning space-travel industry up and running.
The Bible says there is a time for everything. That means there’s a time for fighting to the death where you stand. But it also means that it can be totally appropriate to get the hell out of Dodge and never look back. Running pell-mell with your family to get seats on a lifeboat is not cowardice when a skyscraper-sized iceberg is looming off the bow.
MelonCollie on January 10, 2013 at 8:24 PM
That was my first thought, too, but I’m pretty sure Mars wouldn’t hold all the “nominees”. LOL.
jix on January 10, 2013 at 9:02 PM