Mars One

Yes, indeed...this is one of George W's most famous gaffs.

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we"

Yes but Woodentops had more about them

Like Woodentops you mean?

How many more of the Bush family are going to come out of the woodwork? (Was that a pun?)

I'd send Jed Bush!

www.iflscience.com/space/mars-one-mission-whittles-potential-candidates-down-final-100

I bet half of them change their mind by the time it leaves. I would want a cyanide capsule at the very least - in case they ran out of food and decided I looked tasty. Being well padded and all.

This was based on a scenario in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Part 3: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

"The telephone sanitizers in the ship's hold aren't dead, the Captain explains; they're sleeping. The ship is full of millions of hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, management consultants, etc. "We're going to colonize another planet."

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Perhaps they refused to 'service' his comb over?

Nothing, but being bald, they are surplus to requirements.

hairdressers? What have they ever done to you!

I think they should select, estate agents, hairdressers, dental hygienists, traffic wardens, no fee solicitors etc. as the lead party.

Are they looking for nominations? I know of a few people who I would like to send to Mars at the moment. Sorry!

One of them says "I believe there is more to life than marriage and babies". She is 27, and thinks that with advanced communication, and occasional trips to earth , and 10 years training, she will adapt to life without much family links.

There is going to be an Endemol [aka Big Brother] proframme next year.

Considering that the contestants on there struggle to go without family for 3 weeks..

All silly.

In my opinion, I think that the only way really for people to go, would be to use people who are permanently unhappy.

So the students will all be in their thirties by then, possibly married with a mortgage and children...

I have read a little about it now.

It is not due to happen until 2025.
So I expect it will all get quietly dropped around 2018.

DBH keeps up with all this sort of stuff, being a science geek. He would have applied as a student, if given the chance. And they can't use monkeys anymore - the outcry against it would be greater for monkeys or dogs than it would be for uni students!

Apparently so, read this from one of our respectable nstionals S2B

I agree it is unbelievable

Is this real Anya

It reminds me of lab monkeys. They just last a bit longer.

I should imagine that there would be people who would do it though.

But what would happen if they wanted to pull out at say 51 days?
Human Rights would have a field day.
But would they still be bound by earth legalities?
Would they have signed away all earth rights?
Can that be done?
Could they claim that they didnt know properly what they were letting themselves in for?

Sounds like another novel (and a depressing one at that), OK I have no spirit of adventure [sigh]

And if funding was cut?

Imagine being stuck for ever on a rock in space with three other unloved people!!

There's no viable atmosphere on Mars. So they cannot go outside unless wearing some kind of breathing apparatus. They cannot grow crops. Everything will have to be imported. Waste and water and the air the breath recycled.

What is the system breaks down? How many spare parts do they store? If they get ill? Get pregnant?

Early explorers had the possibility of finding somewhere to land, to live, to make a home. This isn't the same except for the acceptance of failure.

Some people dont feel loved, and might go for this idea.