Mars One taking volunteers for reality show on Mars. Catch: It's a 1-way ticket

[The Business]

Wiki:

Mars One is a private spaceflight project led by Dutch entrepreneur, Bas Lansdorp, to establish a permanent human colony on Mars.[1]

Announced in June 2012, the plan is to send a communication satellite and path finder lander to the planet by 2016 and, after several stages, land four humans on Mars for permanent settlement in 2023.[2] A new set of four astronauts would then arrive every two years.[3]

The project is endorsed by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft.[2][4][5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One

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http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,2424118205001_2144787,00.html

Apply now:

http://applicants.mars-one.com/

[Madrun Badrun]

I could get laid on Mars.

[Joe Molotov]

I could get laid on Mars.

"I'd only date you if you were the last man on Mars, and Gary's still alive!"

[Great Rumbler]

Everyone from The Bore needs to sign up for this. In just a couple of decades, we could control all of Mars!

[Eli Gulgin]

I want to go to there

[Madrun Badrun]

kick starter

[Momo]

send the lepers

[brawndolicious]

It's a cool concept, though. Private companies have a history of settling new frontiers. Virginia was settled by a private company and only later taken over by the English crown.

Wasn't the initial Jamestown settlement a huge failure?

[Joe Molotov]

It's a cool concept, though. Private companies have a history of settling new frontiers. Virginia was settled by a private company and only later taken over by the English crown.

Wasn't the initial Jamestown settlement a huge failure?

But this time it'll be different!

[Phoenix Dark]

Yeah, it's kind of incredible. Of the first 500 colonists that arrived between 1607 and 1610, only 60 survived. The winter of 1609-1610 was called "The Starving Time". It was so bad that the remaining 60 colonists decided to pack up and leave in the the summer of 1610 only to get halfway down the Chesapeake and meet a fleet of supply ships and their new governor who made them turn around and go back. I can't imagine how bad that must have felt.

Plus, Jamestown was only the first permanent settlement. Roanoake was settled in 1585 but in 1590 (three years after the last supplies arrived) all they found was an abandoned fort and the word "Crotaon" carved into a tree.

Poor Mars colonists.

I'd rather be dead on Mars than alive in North Carolina

[chronovore]

Time to reread some Kim Stanley Robinson.

[pilonv1]

I nominate Methodis

[Barry Egan]

So which JJ Abrams film is this the viral marketing for?

[Himu]

Weren't a lot of those "missing" colonists really just integrated in a local native american tribe?

[Phoenix Dark]

Sign Of The Beaver

[brawndolicious]

Weren't a lot of those "missing" colonists really just integrated in a local native american tribe?

If I remember correctly, during one winter things got so bad that they dug up and cannibalized Native American graves. I don't know, but I'm guessing that didn't win them any favors.

Edit: cannibalized Martian grave site could/should be a band name.

[The Sceneman]

Yeah, it's kind of incredible. Of the first 500 colonists that arrived between 1607 and 1610, only 60 survived. The winter of 1609-1610 was called "The Starving Time". It was so bad that the remaining 60 colonists decided to pack up and leave in the the summer of 1610 only to get halfway down the Chesapeake and meet a fleet of supply ships and their new governor who made them turn around and go back. I can't imagine how bad that must have felt.

Plus, Jamestown was only the first permanent settlement. Roanoake was settled in 1585 but in 1590 (three years after the last supplies arrived) all they found was an abandoned fort and the word "Crotaon" carved into a tree.

Poor Mars colonists.

I think the Jamestown settlement was featured in the film "The New World". Those guys got pretty friggn hungry

[Don Flamenco]

Don't go, the first crew are pretty much bound to murder each other/fall into some kind of awful domination situation.

[The Sceneman]

yeah it was one of the most beautiful films I've seen. Haven't seen any other Malick films tho

[Eli Gulgin]

Don't go, the first crew are pretty much bound to murder each other/fall into some kind of awful domination situation.

That's exactly what I'm hoping for! Perfect reality tv