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  • Should We Send Ben to Mars?

    http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/...olony-project/

    Huge numbers of people on Earth are keen to leave the planet forever and seek a new life homesteading on Mars.

    About 78,000 people have applied to become Red Planet colonists with the non-profit organization Mars One since its application process opened on April 22, officials announced Tuesday, May 7. Mars One aims to land four people on the Red Planet in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent colony, with more astronauts arriving every two years thereafter.

    "With 78,000 applications in two weeks, this is turning out to be the most desired job in history," Mars One CEO and co-founder Bas Lansdorp said in a statement. "These numbers put us right on track for our goal of half a million applicants." [Mars One's Red Planet Colony Project (Gallery)]

    'This is turning out to be the most desired job in history.'
    - Mars One CEO and co-founder Bas Lansdorp

    Mars One estimates that landing four settlers on Mars in 2023 will cost about $6 billion. The Netherlands-based organization plans to pay most of the bills by staging a global reality-TV event, with cameras documenting all phases of the mission from astronaut selection to the colonists' first years on the Red Planet.

    The application process extends until Aug. 31. Anyone at least 18 years of age can apply, by submitting to the Mars One website a 1-minute video explaining his or her motivation to become a Red Planet settler. (You can also watch other applicants' videos at the site.)

    Mars One charges an application fee, which ranges from $5 to $75 depending on the wealth of the applicant's home country. United States citizens pay $38, Lansdorp said.

    When the application process closes, reviewers will pick 50 to 100 candidates from each of the 300 regions around the world that Mars One has identified. By 2015, this pool will be whittled down to a total of 28 to 40 candidates, officials said.

    This core group will be split into groups of four, which will train for their one-way Mars mission for about seven years. Finally, an audience vote will pick one of these groups to be humanity's first visitors to the Red Planet.

    So far, Mars One has received applications from more than 120 countries, officials said. The United States leads the way with 17,324, followed by China (10,241) and the United Kingdom (3,581). Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Argentina and India round out the top 10.

    "Mars One is a mission representing all humanity, and its true spirit will be justified only if people from the entire world are represented," Lansdorp said. "I'm proud that this is exactly what we see happening."
    If he hasn't already applied, I think we should sign ben up for this. True, we might lose track up him... but who else has the heroic integrity...?
    There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.

  • #2
    I'd be a terrible choice for several reasons - poor visual acuity and bad hearing. Aside from that I do have some skill in physics and navigation. I could find my way around Mars without much difficulty. I'm good at celestial navigation provided it's clear (and dark enough) to see stars.
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    • #3
      no! after meeting ben, the martians will want to wipe out humanity.
      "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

      "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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      • #4
        what did Mars ever do to us?
        Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

        Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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        • #5
          Mars One is going to be one of the greatest scams ever pulled off.
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          • #6
            oh well, in that case Ben should be part of it then
            Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

            Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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            • #7
              they should send me to Mars, I'm named after the planet irl
              Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

              Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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              • #8
                The real question is, do we give him a return ticket ?
                "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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                • #9
                  Ben goes to Mars, to get more candy bars? Who's going to Jupiter?

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                  • #10
                    Hmmm, ben going to a barren place where no intelligent live exists.

                    Hasn't he already done that?
                    It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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                    • #11
                      "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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                      • #12
                        I could find my way around Mars without much difficulty.
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                        • #13
                          I can't wait for Ben to wander off away from the base in a Mars rover and have to navigate his way back through a dust storm

                          Mars dust storms are much different than the dust devils that many people have seen in images sent back from the planet. On Mars a dust storm can develop in a matter of hours and envelope the entire planet within a few days. After developing, it can take weeks for a dust storm on Mars to completely expend itself. Scientists are still trying to determine why the storms become so large and last so long.


                          PLEASE SEND BEN TO MARS.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Alexander's Horse View Post
                            they should send me to Mars, I'm named after the planet irl
                            Your real name is Ares?
                            “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                            ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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                            • #15
                              Almond Joy?
                              Monkey!!!

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