More than 100,000 apply for mission to colonize Mars in 2022
"More than 100,000 people have applied to take a one-way trip to Mars in order to colonize the Red Planet, the mission's organizers say.
Participants on the Mars One project, which is planned to start in 2022, would spend the rest of their lives there, CNN reports.
Mars One CEO and co-founder Bas Lansdorp said the first crew's mission would cost $US6 billion, which would be paid for by sponsors and media companies in exchange for broadcasting rights of the group's colonization of Mars.
What we want to do is tell the story to the world. When humans go to Mars, when they settle on Mars and build a new Earth, a new planet. This is one of the most exciting things that ever happened, and we want to share the story with the entire world," Mr Lansdorp said.
This year the Mars One project only plans to pick 40 out of the thousands of applicants. Just four of them will participate in the first mission, which will leave in September 2022 and land in April 2023. Another group of four will leave two years later. No one will return to Earth.
Astronauts must complete eight years of training, and will be required to carry almost 2500kgs of "useful load" to Mars. But that won't include much water or oxygen - Mr Lansdorp says the astronauts will manufacture that on Mars.
"We will evaporate [water from Martian soil] and condense it back into its liquid state," he said.
To apply you must be over 18 and must pay the application fee, which varies based on each country's gross domestic product per capita.
"We wanted it to be high enough for people to have to really think about it and low enough for anyone to be able to afford it," Mr Lansdorp said.
But space travel experts are not convinced the project is viable, citing concerns over radiation and the fact that humans have never travelled the distance to Mars.
Mr Lansdorp says he is convinced the project is viable. If you are too, you can sign up for it here: http://applicants.mars-one.com/ "
I just met this chick who wanted to do this badly. Good for her that she's only fourteen and way too young But seriously, who the hell would want to go there and die? For what reason? To find resources? To find another planet to live on when we've finally managed to destroy this one? Is the human race really worthy of being preserved? Matter of fact, humans won't be around forever.
Um 2022 lol. Why would you sign up to go to another planet so soon? We literally just successfully got a bigger robot to go on there. This would make sense if it was like 2060 but 2022? bye
Um 2022 lol. Why would you sign up to go to another planet so soon? We literally just successfully got a bigger robot to go on there. This would make sense if it was like 2060 but 2022? bye
Exactly. Unless innovation happens at a rapid pace I don't see it until the very end of this century.
Talk about taking a middle life crisis to the next damn level 
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But seriously, who the hell would want to go there and die? For what reason? To find resources? To find another planet to live on when we've finally managed to destroy this one? Is the human race really worthy of being preserved? Matter of fact, humans won't be around forever.
