Thousands apply to settle on Mars

[Jazzy]

More than 78,000 people have applied for the chance to leave Earth forever and live on Mars for a reality TV project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=74pA5YH-ehY

The Mars One project aims to establish a human settlement on the Red Planet by 2023 and televise every aspect of the decade-long mission.

Successful candidates must come through a two-year selection process and train for another seven before heading to Mars, never returning to Earth.

Co-founder and CEO Bas Lansdorp said he expected more than half a million applicants to apply before the August 31 deadline.

"With 78,000 applications in two weeks, this is turning out to be the most desired job in history," he said.

"Mars One is a mission representing all humanity and its true spirit will be justified only if people from the entire world are represented."

Mars One has received applications from over 120 countries, including more than 3,500 from the United Kingdom.

As part of the application process every candidate is required to explain why they want to go to Mars in a 60-second video.

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Still plenty of time to apply!

 

[Evil Eye]

I'll stay here and watch it instead

 

[Andrew Darmac]

I think I read this before.

And only space for 4 people at a time, with four more joining every two years. That's going to be an extremely boring and lonely job very fast.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Wow thats pretty fascinating. Imagine after all those years of getting prepared, something goes horribly wrong.

 

[Andrew Darmac]

I wonder how internet access would work there.

It'd probably be far worse than dial-up!

I'd get so bored so fast.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I wonder how internet access would work there.

It'd probably be far worse than dial-up!

I'd get so bored so fast.

Satellite?

 

[Evil Eye]

It'd probably be far worse than dial-up!

I dunno, there wouldn't be hundreds of people clogging up the network so you should get pretty good throughput. With that high a ping I suppose you won't be able to play any real-time online games, but you could play turn-based ones

 

[Crusader]

Mars' obit is slower than that of the Earth's too so there'd be some weird time-zone differences. Like, 14.65 hours behind or something silly like that.

 

[Evil Eye]

Living in a different Earth-timezone every day or so seems interesting

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Im sure they'd make up their own time and stick to that.

 

[Crusader]

Of course but, if they wanted to communicate with someone on Earth at per say, 7PM Tuesday, it'd be very awkward to work out when that would be Mars time. It could be 3AM the previous Friday!

 

[Evil Eye]

Im sure they'd make up their own time and stick to that.

Well yes, but that wouldn't work too well when communicating with people on Earth. People already mess these things up here on Earth!