One way ticket to Mars?

[SportsGuy41017]

Can we nominate people?

 

Mars One: 'We're all going to die, but it's important what you do before you die' - CNN.com

 

"Mars One, a group that plans to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars, has announced its final 100 candidates. They have been selected from 200,000 applicants and will go on to further testing later this year, which they expect to include team-building exercises and later, isolation.

 

Eventually, 24 will be selected to make up six crews of four, which Mars One says they hope to launch to the Red Planet every two years from 2024, with the aim of starting a colony there."

[swamprat]

Can we just sign up people we would like to take the trip?

[SportsGuy41017]

Can we just sign up people we would like to take the trip?

 

That's what I meant, lol

[Randy Parker]

We've tried to keep this quiet, but Guru has obtained a ticket for the trip to Mars & will be giving that away to a lucky BGPer.

 

I'm not allowed to say who the winner is, but his name rhymes with Letslow.

[SportsGuy41017]

"a recent MIT study found that, should the first explorers succeed in landing, using current technology they would likely survive just 68 days."

[mcpapa]

"a recent MIT study found that, should the first explorers succeed in landing, using current technology they would likely survive just 68 days."

 

According to a PM I just received from a BGPer who shall remain nameless, that's 67 days too long for the member whose name rhymes with Letslow.

[SportsGuy41017]

...

[mcpapa]

I just got another PM, asking that I nominate someone whose username sounds like "Wetflow".

[SportsGuy41017]

I just got another PM, asking that I nominate someone whose username sounds like "Wetflow".

 

From the same person who PM'ed you just before this one? Or two separate people?

[mcpapa]

From the same person who PM'ed you just before this one? Or two separate people?

 

Curiously enough, one and the same.

[mcpapa]

On a related note, TAC has already procured a window seat.

[Sandman]

On a related note, TAC has already procured a window seat.

 

No, no, no. TAC won't be on the maiden voyage. He'll wait until everyone else gets there and gets things in order, then he'll slide in to the VIP area like he's been there all along. :lol2:

[nkuclubbaseball19]

My application must have been lost in the mail...

 

BTW it really irks me that they say they will be able to communicate via email from Mars and I can't get wifi in my own house to work correctly at times. Heck they even sent tweets from a comet last year.