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One-Way Ticket: Mars One Project Applicants Top 100,000
Bas Lansdorp's projected trip to Mars has a well-known catch: the ticket to space is free (rather than the millions of dollars for the more conventional kind of space travel available to civilians), but it's one-way only. That's a downside for any potential astronauts who'd like to do things like visit the beach or ever see their Earthside family again in person. Still, the Mars One project announced this week that more than 100,000 volunteers have announced their willingness to forsake this planet in favor of the next. The application process is ongoing; have you signed up?
It's funny how we claim in western culture that we should be free to do as we please as long as it's not hurting anyone else, but there are so many that feel the need to jump in and stop others from go on what could be the greatest adventure any of us could ever go on
It's a disease of the mind that we call Liberalism. Common symptoms include an insatiable desire to meddle in the affairs of others and irresistible urges to insert themselves into situations where they're neither invited nor welcome instead of minding their own business. The end result is a dependent and needy adult who cannot make their own way in the world without government assistance and with absolutely no clue about how the economy works or why nobody wants to pay them a "living wage" as a reward for their "enlightened" way of thinking.