Posted on 08/15/2013 8:26:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
100,000 people want to live in these space habitats on Mars — for eternity.
Four months after the call for applicants went out, 100,000 people from around the world (including yours truly) have applied for a one-way trip to Mars.
The Mars One group wants to put four humans on the Red Planet by 2022. The first settlers would by followed more groups, arriving every two years.
The first round of a four-part selection process ends on August 31. By September, the selection committee will begin culling through hundreds of thousands of video entries and questionnaires to decide which space enthusiasts will move ahead to Round Two. Ultimately, candidates will be whittled down to a total of 24 to 40 applicants, divided into groups.
"We are selecting groups of four, and not individuals," says Norbert Kraft, the medical director for the Mars One project. "You can be the best, smartest individual, but if you cannot work within your group you are out," he said.
Each group will spend three months every year, for up to eight years, in an isolated habitat. During this time, the group will have to prove that they can work together.
On its press site, Mars One says its looking for applicants that display five specific psychological traits: resilience, adaptability, curiosity, the ability to trust others, and creativity/resourcefulness. They also want candidates who are mature, interesting, and have a sense of humor.
Most Mars applicants have a public profile and their application videos are available to watch online.
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Is there anyway we can sign Nancy Pelosi up?
I sure don't mean to quibble with you, GrandJediMasterYoda, but don't you think President You Didn't Build That ought to take precedence?
My husband would go in a heart beat just to be part of the scientific community.
He was very disappointed that he did not meet the age qualifiers for the trip but he did meet the scientific areas.
She'd likely be in my top 10.
Not necessarily, unless you consider scientist and explores mental.
My husband would go just to be part of the scientific discovery.
“Mars Needs Women!”
Cool!
Send Khan?
There may be a LOT of people moving to mars eventually to escape the tyranny of earth....
And my wife is probably disappointed that I’m not going....
“I can’t close the airlock, I’m busy doing my nails”
Khan, hell! Send Obama. He isn’t as bright as Khan and lacks the interpersonal skills.
October in the Shenandoah...
Life on Mars....
Hmmmm? Such a tough call.
I can understand being willing to give your life for science. Really I can. But clearly, living one's entire life in the limited social and physical environment contemplated in the article would be a guarantee of some type of debilitating mental breakdown in the end.
Human nature can only be suppressed for so long, and there is nothing about this living environment that would be consistent with human nature over a lifetime.
And by the way, would you stay married to your husband if he were selected for this trip?
I nominate Sheila Jackson Lee.
Oh no. Not at all. In fact, I think we should send them all there to establish their perfect Utopian (i.e. totalitarian) society.
Legos are cool and all, but I’d probably build my colony out of something else.
A village of Legos! They should build it on the moon and bring back the cheese.
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