Mars One hopes to have people living on the planet — for the rest of their lives — by 2023.(Mars One/YouTube)
Posted on 03/17/2013 9:20:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Mars One co-founder tells CBC about its proposed one-way trip to the Red Planet
Mars One hopes to have people living on the planet — for the rest of their lives — by 2023.(Mars One/YouTube)
The man behind the private space project dubbed Mars One is looking for people to travel to Mars, but he's not offering a return ticket.
"The technology to get humans to Mars and keep them alive there exists," Bas Lansdorp told Day 6 host Brent Bambury in an interview that aired this week on CBC Radio.
"The technology to bring humans from Mars back to Earth simply does not exist yet."
Lansdorp said he's looking for people who are utterly dependable, good in groups and "at their best when things are at their worst."
The never-to-return explorers will require eight years of training, and the search starts this year.
The flight is scheduled to leave in Sept. 2022.
To hear the complete conversation, including how Lansdorp plans to fund the trip, click the audio button above.
I’ve never been to Mars but I imagine it’s quite lovely.
well we argue all day
then we argue all night
we stand up sit down fight fight fight
i don't know about you
i'm just talkin' for me
but i don't see no future in this thing
i hear mars needs women
maybe you should apply
don't worry 'bout me baby
have a good time
i hear mars needs women
i don't know if it's true
but that's all right for you
you don't care about true
you don't care about false
you just want everyone to agree with you that's all
you can't live in the city
you can't live on the farm
you can't live nowhere on this planet with that kind of charm
i hear mars needs women
maybe you should apply
don't worry 'bout me baby
have a good time
i hear mars needs women
i don't know if it's true
but that's all right for you
yeah we argue all day
then we argue all night
we stand up sit down fight fight fight
so i'll take the attic (prov. 25:24)
or the wilderness (prov. 21:19)
you take the next flight out
they're waiting for you up there
i hear mars needs women
maybe you should apply
don't worry 'bout me baby
have a good time
i hear mars needs women
i don't know if it's true
but that's all right for you
© 1981 Worthless Music (ASCAP)
In 8 years, Obamacare will result in Soylent Green.
Send all the whacko liberals? "Lansdorp said he's looking for people who are utterly dependable..."
How about muzzies? "Lansdorp said he's looking for people [who are] good in groups and "at their best when things are at their worst."
I think that eliminates both. The former because liberals are utterly UNdependable; the latter because muzzies, when things are at their worst, will just say "It's Allah's will", do nothing about the situation, and when it eventually goes beyond repair, will then resort to cutting off heads.
Oh, sorry. You'll be rooming with five guys who shower once every couple months... three Russians and two muslims from Kyrgyzstan. Social engineering experiment. ;-)
Nah, all that bright red will drive you crazy. Probably all those red neon signs at all the Kenny Rogers Chicken franchises.
It will never happen. Promise.
Kind of like an extreme version of the French Foreign Legion. Except in this version you get Martian citizenship.
Around Christmas I saw some cable program (History channel? Discover?) about doomsday escape plans with the notion of building some giant orbiting city with something like 1000-2000 people. And of course the sociologists were saying that all segments of society should be included among those "saved", including the poor among us. So much for Darwinian theory of the survival of the fittest. Didn't learn basic hunter, gathering, mechanical, survival skills on Earth. Sure, pass on to the next grade.
When I finally get my flying car, that'll be my first roadtrip. Even if I have to get out and push.
Looks like it's an awfully long way to go just to live in a desert trailer park.
Can’t send muzzies. How will they pray? Kinda hard to face mecca from Mars.
Plant a flag, establish an office, then abandon them as Obama did in Libya.
And some made the long journey to the “New World” and not only did they never return to their European home land, some disappeared completely, never to be found or heard from again.
Wanted. Explorers and men of courage to brave hostile conditions in attempt to reach North (south?) Pole in scientific endeavour. The expedition will take approximately 6 months and participants can expect grueling conditions, with slight possibility of some renown upon completion of our journey. Survival hopeful, but not guaranteed.
They got more applicants than they could handle in short order. Many were prepared to assist in equipping the expedition as well.
If someone has 30% or better odds of being able to put folk on Mars, I don't think they'll lack for volunteers. 8 years of prep work, should be enough to train someone for almost any specialty. I know that if someone were to put me in a rocket and tell me that there was a 30% chance I'd live on Mars, but a 70% chance I'd die in route by any of a number of methods. I'd not hesitate to sign up.
Like that old "Star Trek" joke - have no idea whether it's true or false. Supposedly some Saudi prince asked Gene Roddenberry why there were no Muslims in "Star Trek". His response: "Because this takes place in the future."
“MARS NEEDS WOMEN”
Some ‘volunteers’ for this mission...
Pelosi, Feinstein, Moosechell, Boxer, Collins, Madcow, Oprah, Hitlery, JanNap (Napolitano) & the rest of the female cabinet members from 2009 on, Reno, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruthie Ginsburg, Kagan, Jarrett,...
...Butt Boy Barry too, for the dung punchers on the mission...
...and now your turn to add to this list...
Heinlein wrote that if you could not pay for the air you breath or you proved to be a waste of air that others could breath, you got spaced out of the closest airlock. People were generally industrious and polite on Mars.
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