1-way Mars trip starts accepting astronaut applications
Mars One seeks 'mature and interesting' adults
Want to spend the rest of your life on Mars? You can apply to do so now.
Mars One, a non-profit organization that plans to send humans on a one-way trip to establish a permanent settlement on Mars in 2023, began accepting online applications Monday.
"We are very excited about launching the selection program," said Bas Landorp, co-founder and CEO of the Netherlands-based group, in a statement announcing the start of the selection process. "This is an international mission and it is very important for the project that anyone anywhere can ask themselves: Do I want this? Am I ready for this? If the answer is yes then we want to hear from you."
The program is looking for applicants 18 and older "who are both mature and interesting," but there is no requirement for any particular academic or professional background, as astronauts will spend seven years learning all the skills they need, said a Mars One news release.
Norbert Kraft, Mars One's chief medical officer, said because the mission involves a permanent settlement, the organization is more concerned with "how well each astronaut lives and works with others and their ability to deal with a lifetime of challenges" than whether they have traditional astronaut qualities such as bravery or experience piloting a supersonic jet.
The first round of applications will be open until Aug. 31, 2013. In order to apply, prospective astronauts must:
Pay a registration fee that depends on the per capita GDP of their home country. For Canada, the fee is $33 US.
Provide some general information about themselves.
Write a letter about why they are applying.
Submit a one-minute video answering some standard questions and explaining why he or she should be among the first humans to set foot on Mars.
As of Tuesday at noon, dozens of videos were already viewable online, including at least one from Canada.
Mars One "experts" will decide which applications will pass on to Round 2, when candidates will have to pass a health evaluation and an interview.
Rounds 3 and 4 will be reality-type shows broadcast on TV and the internet.
In Round 3, 20 to 40 candidates from each country will participate in "challenges" to demonstrate their suitability for the mission and the audience will choose a winner. Mars One will decide who else proceeds to the next round.
In Round 4, candidates will be split into international groups and will begin their training in a mock Mars outpost. Depending on their performance, some will be removed from the program individually or in groups until six groups of four remain.
Mars One estimates that it will cost $6 billion US to put the first four people on Mars. It plans to raise the money through broadcasting rights and sponsorships.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/04/23/technology-mars-one-applications.html
gyrofry has already agreed to make the website.
littlegreenpills posted:i wnat to go 2 mars
Take your wife, please ~!
Mars One "experts" will decide which applications will pass on to Round 2, when candidates will have to pass a health evaluation and an interview.
how do i become an "expert"
shermanstick posted:Mars One "experts" will decide which applications will pass on to Round 2, when candidates will have to pass a health evaluation and an interview.
how do i become an "expert"
Having worked in reality TV should be enough. Paul Römer (Big Brother creator) is on the board apparently.
shermanstick posted:
Post everything you know about Mars on rhizzone.
1. broad, brash, bawdy personalities
2. no particular knowledge of or interest in science or space travel
3. never having been to or seen the arizona desert before
4. see nothing absurd or improbable when introduced to devices as gravity-making machines or oxygenated chewing gum or told the trip to mars will take six hours
thats about it
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That's Halle Berry.
MadMedico posted:It's pretty fucked up that in the John Carter books a Confederate slaveholder becomes ruler of a planet inhabited by non-white humanoids.
actually its really cool because hes wearing space panties the whole time
Keven posted:MadMedico posted:
It's pretty fucked up that in the John Carter books a Confederate slaveholder becomes ruler of a planet inhabited by non-white humanoids.
actually its really cool because hes wearing space panties the whole time
He also has sex with the martian princess and has a kid. But even though martian women look just like earth women with darker skin they still reproduce by laying eggs.
littlegreenpills posted:i wnat to go 2 mars
get your ass to there
Goethestein posted:whats cool about this is that mars has 1/3 the gravity of earth so inside a year these ppl's muscles will have atrophied to the point that they'd need to be on a breathing machine if they ever went back to earth
uh yeah, thats why you pre-atrophy everything by posting on forums 16 hours a day for years beforehand. did you think The Last Starfighter was fiction?
At least 20,000 really adventurous people have applied for a crack at a permanent trip to the red planet.
After only one week, submissions to the Mars One project are pouring in -- 600 from China alone.