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Mars hopefuls ponder life without families, favorite foods
whas11.com ^ | May 16, 2014 at 5:38 PM | Elizabeth Landau

Posted on 05/16/2014 3:21:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin

All of the remaining candidates will be interviewed by the Mars One selection committee.

Eventually, only four will be picked for the first trip. Apparently, none of them is scared off by the idea that, because of technological and financial limitations, Mars One astronauts would probably never come home.

She could be on a one-way trip to Mars A one-way ticket to Mars

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A reality TV concept is one way Mars One may make good on its $6 billion budget for getting the first four humans to Mars. Lansdorp hopes the unprecedented video opportunities will attract sponsors, partners and media coverage.

But since no one has ever been to Mars, the technology to fly people there and keep them alive has not been tested there, either. Lansdorp said last year that "no new inventions are needed to land humans on Mars," and the website says the "plan is built upon existing technologies available from proven suppliers." But the company will need to show that key systems involved in transportation and life support will work in untraversed territories.

Mars One announced in March that it will soon begin constructing the first of its "simulation outposts" to train selected astronauts and teams, giving them experience in an environment made to feel like a Martian home.

Zucker, 46, an emergency medicine physician in Washington, is doubtful that Mars One will deliver on the trip ... But if it does happen, she is on board. "There's no question."

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Dan Carey, 52, another candidate, believes humans should be spreading to other planets -- but his wife is not happy about Carey taking part in the mission. The couple, married 28 years, has two college-age children.

"She's concerned that she's going to have to watch me die on television," Carey said of his wife.

(Excerpt) Read more at whas11.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: mars; marsone
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1 posted on 05/16/2014 3:21:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

>>Mars hopefuls ponder life without families, favorite foods<<

Narrow the selection to Technology Consultants. No pondering needed.


2 posted on 05/16/2014 3:22:53 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
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To: BenLurkin; All
bad Engrelish! ..grammar police needed.

3 posted on 05/16/2014 3:24:38 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
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To: BenLurkin

IF they make it to Mars alive, they will be dead soon after the first supply mission fails to arrive because no one can afford to resupply them at $1 million per pound.


4 posted on 05/16/2014 3:25:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: BenLurkin
Man it with bi-sexuals and everyone will be happy........

That was bad, I don't even know why I said that........

5 posted on 05/16/2014 3:25:12 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Under Reagan spring always arrived on time.....)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
They'll have to draw straws to see who gets eaten first.

That should drive up ratings.

6 posted on 05/16/2014 3:28:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Actually... No one would be happy. They would get pissy with each other on the trip there making all of them demand to return home.


7 posted on 05/16/2014 3:28:47 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: BenLurkin

Mars hopefuls ponder life without liberal policies and liberalism....

and imemdiatly start building the rocket themselves...


8 posted on 05/16/2014 3:28:49 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t think they’ll ever go and if they ever do they won’t get to report what’s really there.


9 posted on 05/16/2014 3:29:01 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: BenLurkin

Mars. Think of Antarctica on a bad night without oxygen and 38% the gravity.


10 posted on 05/16/2014 3:31:47 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

I will go if they let me be President of Mars for Life.


11 posted on 05/16/2014 3:32:25 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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A reality TV concept is one way Mars One may make good on its $6 billion budget

Naked and Afraid on Mars!

Give them a machete and a fire starter and let them fend for themselves.

12 posted on 05/16/2014 3:33:38 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: BenLurkin

Mars ain’t the kind of place, to raise your kids.


13 posted on 05/16/2014 3:34:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: freedumb2003

send single people, duh, or couples


14 posted on 05/16/2014 3:36:05 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: BenLurkin
The United Arab Emirates' religious watchdog, the General Authority of Islamic Affairs & Endowments, recently issued a fatwa to warn Muslims against the mission because "the chances of dying are higher than living."

LMAO!!!

Since when did Islam care more about life than death?

15 posted on 05/16/2014 3:36:22 PM PDT by airborne (My heroes don't wear capes - My heroes wear dog tags!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Send a whole family of illegal immigrants

“Don’t make me turn around, Juan!”


16 posted on 05/16/2014 3:37:08 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: BenLurkin

They might do better to ponder life without breathable air.


17 posted on 05/16/2014 3:38:08 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: BenLurkin

Tune in to see who is first to be voted off the planet.


18 posted on 05/16/2014 3:42:55 PM PDT by AU72
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To: Jack Hammer

It will come with a huge inflatable greenhouse to grow vegetables right? Hopefully one can grow vegetables there.


19 posted on 05/16/2014 3:44:16 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: AU72

That would be TV Worth Watching.... someone strapped to a rocket


20 posted on 05/16/2014 3:45:20 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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