More than 100,000 want to go to Mars and not return, project says

More than 100,000 want to go to Mars and not return, project says

By Orion on Sun, 08/11/2013 - 4:49am |

I'm a little unsure of them having contacted 100,000 people but I fully believe that many people would be okay with leaving this messed up planet.

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/tech/innovation/mars-one-applications/index.html?sr=fb081013mars1130a

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I took a trip to the CNN homepage and saw that people working for CNN took "More than 100,000 want to go to Mars and not return, project says" and reworded it on their main site as "100,000 apply to die on Mars." That's a pretty good example of how the media really subscribes to "If it bleeds, it leads."

by Orion on Sun, 08/11/2013 - 10:25am

HELL, why should we go to Mars when we are looking at the landscape of Mars in more and more places here on the Earth? hahahahah

Just a little more fracking and a little more ocean drilling; we can make this place Mars.

by Richard Day on Sun, 08/11/2013 - 3:41pm

All reports say that Mars once looked like earth. That means it had earth like beings - who I'm sure contributed to it looking like it does now.

by Orion on Mon, 08/12/2013 - 6:51am

Sounds like the plot of Out of the Silent Planet.

by Donal on Mon, 08/12/2013 - 2:01pm

How to Serve Man ...

by Donal on Sun, 08/11/2013 - 9:05pm

In the late 19th century, there were a number of experimental Utopias founded. This sounds like a 21st century variation on that urge.

by MrSmith1 on Mon, 08/12/2013 - 5:38pm

Anyone know if this is to be anything like the Golgafrincham ark?

Golgafrincham is a red semi-desert planet that is home of the Great Circling Poets of Arium and a species of particularly inspiring lichen. Its people decided it was time to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population, and so the descendants of the Circling Poets concocted a story that their planet would shortly be destroyed in a great catastrophe. (It was apparently under threat from a "mutant star goat"). The useless third of the population (consisting of hairdressers, tired TV producers*, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, management consultants, telephone sanitisers and the like) were packed into the B-Ark, one of three purported giant Ark spaceships, and told that everyone else would follow shortly in the other two. The other two thirds of the population, of course, did not follow and "led full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone".

by EmmaZahn on Mon, 08/12/2013 - 7:32pm

More than 100,000 want to go to Mars and not return, project says

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