and Lucy and Ethyl!
They are resilient, adaptable, curious, able to trust others, creative, and with plenty of resourcefulness. They are also mature, interesting, and have a sense of humor. Plus, Lucy and Ethyl have already been to Mars!
Posted on 08/15/2013 8:26:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
100,000 people want to live in these space habitats on Mars — for eternity.
Four months after the call for applicants went out, 100,000 people from around the world (including yours truly) have applied for a one-way trip to Mars.
The Mars One group wants to put four humans on the Red Planet by 2022. The first settlers would by followed more groups, arriving every two years.
The first round of a four-part selection process ends on August 31. By September, the selection committee will begin culling through hundreds of thousands of video entries and questionnaires to decide which space enthusiasts will move ahead to Round Two. Ultimately, candidates will be whittled down to a total of 24 to 40 applicants, divided into groups.
"We are selecting groups of four, and not individuals," says Norbert Kraft, the medical director for the Mars One project. "You can be the best, smartest individual, but if you cannot work within your group you are out," he said.
Each group will spend three months every year, for up to eight years, in an isolated habitat. During this time, the group will have to prove that they can work together.
On its press site, Mars One says its looking for applicants that display five specific psychological traits: resilience, adaptability, curiosity, the ability to trust others, and creativity/resourcefulness. They also want candidates who are mature, interesting, and have a sense of humor.
Most Mars applicants have a public profile and their application videos are available to watch online.
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Good idea, especially if the transport is powered by “Stupidity”.
I hope that these people read up on the Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth colonies before they go. There won’t be any Indians, friendly or otherwise to help them out
I think I’ll stay right here, and dig out my old copy of Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles” to re-read.
I would happily help any number of Rats sell their possessions and move to Mars.
Remember the lost colony in Jamestown.
Of course I would stay married to my husband.
My husband’s career in the scientific field has been all these years quite isolated (well while at work anyway), scientists are a strange bunch.
However, I do get your point, a person can not work 24/7, we need a respite from the work.
“”You can be the best, smartest individual, but if you cannot work within your group you are out,” he said. “
I guess that Sheldon Cooper is out, then.
To Live And Die On the Red Planet
Fuggetaboddit. Dis place ain’t got no atmosphere.
John Carter
*bzzzt* you're disqualified!
Can Obama and Holder go?
I wonder how long the trip would take one way?
Even if he left you here on Earth while he left to spend the rest of his life on Mars? You are a rare woman. God bless you.
yeah... your husband would go “for the scientific discovery”
or are you volunteering him?
No he really wanted to go.
Thank you
Hydroponics. So they’ll be growing weed? ;-)
I would love to go right now too...
at least until my three daughters grow out of the teenager years
just joking with you!
(you DID expect that here, didn’t you?)
;-)
Yes absolutely! We’ll stow Nancy in the luggage compartment as well lol.
Yes, you’re right. I didn’t see it that way LOL
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