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Ok people ... Want to live and die on Mars :) ? Mars One has officially begun its worldwide search for astronauts who will fly to Mars in 2023—and never come back

The ultimate goal is to select 24 to 40 candidates who will travel to Mars in groups of four. Mars One wants to land the first group (two men and two women, ideally from four different continents, says CEO Bas Lansdorp) on the red planet in 2023, with the other groups following one at a time, every two years. Applications close August 31, 2013. Link

To filter out spam and frivolous entries, Mars One is charging an application fee that varies by country (it's $38 in the United States). Applicants must create a 30- to 70-second video that explains why they want to go to Mars, and why they're the best candidate. The pool will be narrowed to 24 to 40 in 2015.

If you're one of the (uh, lucky?) people chosen for the program, you'll move to the United States to spend the next seven years as a full-time, salaried employee of Mars One. Nine months of each year will be spent learning dentistry, emergency medicine, general medicine, engineering, biology, mechanics—anything you might need to know on an inhospitable planet with a population of four. The other three months of each year will be spent in a Mars habitat mock-up, complete with a 40-minute communication delay to the outside world and simulated emergencies. The hardest thing they'll face during the simulation? A broken toilet, Lansdorp says. "That's when people get out of control."

Reference - Popsci

... It will be interesting to know who gets selected(to be doomed :greyalien::D ) finally.
 
The next thing you know, they videotape everything that those people go through on Mars till they die and then put it up on the interwebz for public entertainment. Kinda like in the movie, "The Condemned".
 
It's a great initiative, even though I'm a skeptic at this point, but with a goal this big, it is justified.
 
 
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i dont believe in this one bit. firstly, there's no spacecraft ready to fly people beyond earths field yet. at most to the international space station with 3 or 4 people on it. mars is a long way off. nasa funding is declining every year. their space shuttle program is dead. this is based in uk which has no space shuttle program of their own. besides russia, no one has capability of sending astronauts to space now. even chinese sent one guy till now after spending billions in research. for a large group of 24-40 people they will need a lot of space vehicles (each costing billions to make). Just to design such a vehicle or a group of vehicles, test it, put enough food and material in it so people can stay alive till they reach mars - all this in 10 years time looks impossible. In 10 years the company would have ran away with the money since it would be easier. This looks like a money making scheme to me.
 
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Humans really need to explore something outside earth. Sadly if there is astroid attack on earth, all humans can do is just wait & watch.
 
i was just calculating the average time it would take to get to Mars by say Atlantis (which is decommissioned now). Atlantis speed around Earth's orbit was around 28000 kmph. Average distance to Mars is 225 million kms, and to cover this distance it would take approx 345 days. That means the space shuttle will need to carry enough food, material, water, oxygen, fuel, etc to cover that time if the people are to be even alive. Enough food, water,etc for almost a year would be in the order of few tonnes for just a family of 4. Just imagining the fuel to weight ratio to get the vehicle off the ground would make scientists nervous.
Space is at around -200 degrees C i think. And this is just the start. The journey between Earth and Mars has lots of asteroid debris in it which are hazardous to the space vehicle. Even an ice rock the size of a marble could blast a hole with a diameter a few feet wide since both the debris and space vehicle are traveling at high speeds. Any hit would kill the people instantly, or destroy the space vehicle so that it drifts in space endlessly. At the most, if there is not enough food & water in the vehicle, people could die of starvation or lack of oxygen. They could even start killing each other and act like cannibals to quench their thirst and satisfy their hunger.
Looks like Lost in space if you ask me. If you read the site carefully, those organisers have already got the full television/internet/media rights for broadcasting it. This looks like some wicked plot to me.
 
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The Interplanetary Media Group is a for-profit company which can secure investments, and manages the broadcasting rights of the training and launch of the astronauts, and their residence on Mars. Currently, investors hold less than 10% of the shares in IMG. IMG has the exclusive rights to use the mission to Mars to generate revenues. These revenues can, for example, be generated through the sale of broadcasting rights, or advertising. In return for these exclusive rights, IMG will pay a license fee to the Mars One foundation.
To pay for the Mars mission, the Mars One foundation receives revenues from the license fee from the Interplanetary Media Group, sponsors, donations and the sales of merchandise. When the media interest grows, a large fraction of the revenues will come from the license fee that IMG pays to the Mars One foundation. The Mars One foundation currently holds about 90% of the shares in IMG. This means that the Mars One foundation will receive 90% of the profit of IMG besides the license fee - all funds that will be spent on the Human Mission to Mars.
The Mars One foundation will be the owner of the Mars settlement, the simulation outposts on Earth, and it will be the employer of the project management team of the mission, and the Mars astronauts. The Mars One foundation owns a majority share in the Interplanetary Media Group (IMG) - the company which manages the media associated with the human mission to Mars. Furthermore, the Mars One foundation is the sole supervisor of the operations of the Interplanetary Media Group.
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its in their about us page.
 
All IT Guys who are dying, waiting for years in companies like TCS, Wipro & Infy just to get that H1 B.

here is your chance... Kar lo USA mutthi me :P
 
Well race is becoming serious now. There are guys like Virgin Airlines Founder who is preparing for mars mission. People like Steven Spielberg joining him.

Its time human race finds other place too as soon as possible. You never know when something comes from space & bangs earth.
 
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i dont believe in this one bit. firstly, there's no spacecraft ready to fly people beyond earths field yet. at most to the international space station with 3 or 4 people on it. mars is a long way off. nasa funding is declining every year. their space shuttle program is dead. this is based in uk which has no space shuttle program of their own. besides russia, no one has capability of sending astronauts to space now. even chinese sent one guy till now after spending billions in research. for a large group of 24-40 people they will need a lot of space vehicles (each costing billions to make). Just to design such a vehicle or a group of vehicles, test it, put enough food and material in it so people can stay alive till they reach mars - all this in 10 years time looks impossible. In 10 years the company would have ran away with the money since it would be easier. This looks like a money making scheme to me.
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Money making scam in United States of Barack Obama ????
 
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