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The company will hold a worldwide lottery next year to select 40 people for a training team. They will then set up a mock colony in the desert, possibly somewhere in the U.S., for three months. This initial team will be reduced to ten crew members.
They will then be sent to Mars, never again to return.
“We will send humans to Mars in 2023,” he told FoxNews.com. “They will live there the rest of their lives.
There will be a habitat waiting for them, and we’ll start sending four people every two years.”
The habitat will consist of several housing structures that Mars One will launch before 2023.
In 2016, the company plans to launch the first supply vessel.
"Paul Römer, the co-founder and executive producer of the show "Big Brother," is an adviser for Mars One."
Would surely get some high ratings. Big Bro on Mars. lol
It will be interesting if he has any takers next year with the lottery. Frankly I don't know who in their right mind would go there to never to come home and this habitat what if it fails in some way they will all die.
It will be interesting if he has any takers next year with the lottery. Frankly I don't know who in their right mind would go there to never to come home and this habitat what if it fails in some way they will all die.
The psychological and emotional tolls would probably be enormous. To leave the only home you've ever known, and all of your friends and family behind knowing that you will never return. To spend the rest of your days forever with only a handful of others. However it would also be an exciting adventure and I'm sure there are many out there who would jump at the chance.
I'd do it if the only alternative was life in a maximum security prison.
I'd jump at the chance to do it for a year or less, but it's the one-way aspect that gets to me. Humans need a sense of purpose and one of progress. It's not like you can leave your habitat in Mars and plant crops...Will they be playing a part in Terra-forming the planet? The worst thing about it IMO is that you're just there living life, and growing the same plants over and over again with hydroponics. What's there to accomplish?
But that's just my take facing the possibility of myself going. If this project actually "takes off" I'll follow it with hope and fascination.
If they had high powered communication to use the internet there at that point in the future, I can see many people jumping at this chance. At the rate our current generation is going, seeing people face to face will be unheard of lol
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