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Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars
New submitter thAMESresearcher writes with a few updates on Mars One: "The Dutch company Mars One is organizing a one way mission to Mars 2023. In a press release that came out today, they say they have over a thousand applicants already. In the press release they also mention that they are now a not-for-profit Foundation. It sounds ambitious, but they have a Nobel prize winner, an astronaut, and several people from NASA on their board."
The actual selection process starts early next year.
"We've carefully reviewed the 1,000 candidates who volunteered online and have put together a team of our finest candidates," said Mars One head Bas Lansdorp:
Captain:
Jack Meov
Pilots:
Bob A. Booey
Ivana Bloweau
Mission specialists:
Mike Hunt
Jean Luc Picard
George Washington
Richard Flair, N.B.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
I wouldn't be surprised if lots of guys didn't just volunteer their ex-wives.
I'll be a perfect candidate for such a mission... I doubt my wife would agree though.
Au contraire. Just last night she was telling me that she'd do anything to get rid of you.
I'm pretty sure she'd be a for shooting you at Mars.
How many of those 1.000 candidates are telephone sanitizers?
Mike Hunt
Yeah right, you're trying to tell me that former Green Bay Packer Michael Anthony Hunt signed up for this? Mike Hunt received a total of two interceptions while playing only twenty two games. Mike Hunt knows how to play the field. It's ridiculous to think that we would waste Mike Hunt, a national treasure that has been enjoyed by millions of burly men, by putting Mike Hunt on a Mars suicide mission!
My work here is dung.
And yet when my company kills people as a cost cutting measure, ohhhh, suddenly that's illegal, lol.
"Wanted: Somebody to go to Mars with me. This is not a joke. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed."
=Smidge=
Am I the only one who misread it as "The natural selection process starts early next year"?
Where the hell are they going to find water? Shipping it surely isn't an option....
Don't call me Shirley.
If you're in Mars doing a one-way mission with no hopes of returning. What would you do before you died?
I'd make an effort to fuck with people's minds in the future.
I would make an elaborate treasure map of ancient alien civilizations in areas that are suitable for future human settlements. That way when people find my map and realize a government building is built on a location that apparently has ancient alien bones, treasure, etc., they think it was a government conspiracy or cover up and madness will ensue (but I'll be laughing from the heavans).
I would look for a cave and set up fake cave paintings like Prometheus pointing towards the Sun. That way they may send some poor sap to go explore the sun for possible clues (and possibly make great discoveries along the way) but in the end a lot of people will die because the Sun is really dangerous.
And the day I will fall to near death I will walk as far as I can, fall flat on my face, break my protective suit and have my right arm point in some arbitrary direction, so when rigormortous kicks in, my arm stays in that position. That way people will wonder what the hell I was pointing at.
I guess I want to be an asshole astronaut lol.
Previewing comments are for sissies!
Newsflash: Rest of Earth's population chooses 'suicide' mission at home.
What the hell are we going to do with the rest of them?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Either there should be no lawyers among the 80,000 or they should ALL be. One group stands a chance of establishing a utopian society, the other would, at least, be doing all us earthlings a huge favour.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
so like comcast then?
Colonize the Sun?
After you die, there should be a mechanism in the spacecraft to expose you directly and slowly to the vacuum of space. You should be frozen and preserved as best as you can be. Then the ship should gently deposit you on the surface of Mars as intact as you could possibly be. Why?
What if there is an event on Earth like the flame deluge from A Canticle for Leibowitz? A nuclear event where 99% of the world is destroyed and thousands of years later we rediscover science?
Just imagine how surprised they will be to find a human skull on Mars.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
I got to "2875lbs of female flesh" and then my mind wandered to a very happy place.
Man clearly likes his women on the large side.