Mars Colony Project to Begin Astronaut Search by July

SPACE.com ^ | 16 April 2013 Time: 06:30 AM ET | Rob Coppinger, Contributor

[BenLurkin]

A nonprofit organization that aims to land four astronauts on Mars in 2023 will kick off its two-year, televised search for Red Planet explorers by this summer.

The Netherlands-based Mars One will begin accepting application videos sometime between now and July, charging a fee to weed out folks who aren't serious about their candidacy. The group hopes to raise millions of dollars this way, with the proceeds paying for the ongoing selection process and technology studies.

"We expect a million applications with 1-minute videos, and hopefully some of those videos will go viral,” Mars One co-founder and chief executive officer Bas Lansdorp told SPACE.com on April 10. He was in London to speak to the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) that day.

[a fool in paradise]

“Beam me up, there’s no intelligent life down here!”

[EEGator]

I’m in.

[JRandomFreeper]

Good cook. Understands field conditions with a mind to maximizing benefit to clients.

Monkinsh life style. Willing to boil water for a warm bath.

Good with isolation, over 18 months real world experience.

All I have to do now is get engaged so the whole 'going to Mars' thing makes some kind of rational sense.

/johnny

[EEGator]

I’ve seen all the Star Trek movies.

[darth]

I wish them all the best.

My money is on the asteroid miners. There is gold up there....and platinum and nickel and thorium and loads of hydrocarbons.

Its the New World without the natives.

[max americana]

At least when we mine the planets, the libtards wouldn’t be able to protest there.

[cva66snipe]

I nominate the following for the trip. John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, The Senate group of eight, John Bohner, Beiber, Bloomberg, Guomo, Chris Matthews, Shelia Lee, Feinstein, Bono, Penn, Hillary, and all of her Village, and any extra seats to be determined later :>} Oh and by all means they need at least two leaders sent as well for their Utopic world. I nominate Barry and Joey. LOL

[EEGator]

Send them to the Sun, I want Mars.

[faithhopecharity]

When they take names of people to go to Mercury, let’s nominate the politician aholes. It will be good practice for them there. Its super hot, right next to the sun. Mercury will be a nice “stepping stone” to help them get ready for their destination in the next life.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

They had better have a doctor with them. Ingrown toe-nails and bursting appendecitis are a bitch to deal with with a pair of scissors and a cutting knife.

How about starting a list of all the Sci-Fi movies with the name “Mars” in it? Here is my contribution:

[The Red Planet
The Angry Red Planet]
Mission to Mars
Invaders from Mars
Mars Needs Women
The Ghosts of Mars (Nastash Henstrich is always hot)
Mars versus Earth ?
The Martian Chronicles

Santa Claus versus the Martians?

Up-coming movie/documentary: Mars, the original Home of Nancy Pelosi

[bigheadfred]

All I have to do now is get engaged so the whole 'going to Mars' thing makes some kind of rational sense.

lol

[EEGator]

Mars Attacks!

[Newbomb Turk]

I nominate Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein. Shoot em on their way post haste !

[twister881]

Earth First!...then we’ll strip mine the other planets.

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[plain talk]

The Netherlands-based Mars One will begin accepting application videos sometime between now and July, charging a fee to weed out folks who aren't serious about their candidacy.

It's really an effort to grow some unique red blow on Mars and sell it for God knows what. They might as well. Not sure if those people will ever make it back

[JRandomFreeper]

It's a long story, but the reason I don't have a spleen and a left kidney is because some pretty lady was talking matrimony.

Safer to move West and fall off a mountain during a blizzard.

/johnny

[bigheadfred]

2 wrongs make a right

getting engaged (insanity) + going to Mars (insanity) = rationality. I like it.

The g-kids are worth it.

[JRandomFreeper]

I actually like 3 out my 5 grandkids. They are cool people. The other two? Not so much.

I would go to Mars even if it was a one way trip. Some crazy person has to venture over the appalachian mountains and see what lies beyond.

/johnny