10,000 people sign up for a no-return trip to Mars

[waqob]

www(dot)cnn(dot)com/2013/08/09/tech/innovation/mars-one-applications

[BIXX]

I wanna be the first space anarchist!

I'm gonna resist the hierarchy of gravity over my body!!!

[Flying Purple People Eater]

What happens if the business goes under? Do they just get abandoned or what?

I wonder how many of those 10'000 people are suicidal.

[Brutus]

I wouldn't be on of them 10,000...
I'm much happier on earth. Hell, it's a pain to change climates for me.

[waqob]

Oops it's 100,000 people

[Comrade Jacob]

10,000 people want a no-return trip, 10,000 people have lost the will to live and want to go out with a bang.

[RedBen]

i suppose they are all scientists and engineers who have developed air recycling systems as well as renewable food and water systems that can sustain them all? how about living quarters? probably a bunch of small town creeps "tryina git closer ta jeezus!"

[ckaihatsu]

The volunteers' fees will be pooled to buy lottery tickets in hopes of covering the $6 billion cost....


= )

[Red Commissar]

The way this Mars One thing is supposed to work is that all these people applying are potential applicants to get to a final group of six teams with four people each. The first mission is planned to have only four people make the mission, to be joined by further missions until they have 24 there.

So yeah the application is open- nothing stops you from putting up your stuff there. As long as you pay the application fee of course, which for people from more developed countries can go as high as $75.

[Astarte]

Not sure what all the handwringing about some people being OK with potentially dying on a trip to Mars is. This is human exploration, I think even if we lived in a communist society there would be people who would gladly risk their life in the name of human exploration of the unknown.

[bcbm]

Not sure what all the handwringing about some people being OK with potentially dying on a trip to Mars is. This is human exploration, I think even if we lived in a communist society there would be people who would gladly risk their life in the name of human exploration of the unknown.

yeah the threat of death never really stopped anyone from exploring before, they just made the best precautions they could and said 'fuck it lets roll.' this is just on a much grander scale.

besides, not like mars could be any worse than here. your job is all lined up and you never have to pay taxes again.

[Sea]

The way this Mars One thing is supposed to work is that all these people applying are potential applicants to get to a final group of six teams with four people each. The first mission is planned to have only four people make the mission, to be joined by further missions until they have 24 there.

So yeah the application is open- nothing stops you from putting up your stuff there. As long as you pay the application fee of course, which for people from more developed countries can go as high as $75.So what you're saying is that we can lie about our personal info, and lie about our country of residence? Sounds like a great deal!

[Orange Juche]

Not sure what all the handwringing about some people being OK with potentially dying on a trip to Mars is. This is human exploration, I think even if we lived in a communist society there would be people who would gladly risk their life in the name of human exploration of the unknown.

As much as I'd be really depressed by missing nature here, I'd freely do it just for that reason if I were given the opportunity. I mean, it's traveling to another planet.