Who wants to be a Mars Colonist?

**safeorigin** · April 20th, 2013 01:49 PM

Forget being an OFW. Be a colonist!

If you think you've got the right stuff to make a pioneering space voyage to Mars, fire up the video camera and tell Mars One officials why they should select you for the trip.

The Netherlands-based non-profit told Space.com recently that it is soliciting astronaut audition tapes as part of its selection process for a Mars mission targeted for 2023. Mars One, co-founded by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, aims to establish a permanent Mars colony, beginning with a four-person crew that would travel to the planet aboard a specialized Dragon spacecraft built by private space contractor SpaceX.

What's more, the audition process will be modeled after televised talent shows like American Idol. Space industry experts will whittle down the candidate list, but the final selection of the first four colonists to make the trip to Mars will come down to an audience vote following a "global reality television series," Lansdorp said, according to the site.

Mars One told Space.com it would begin accepting one-minute audition videos between now and July to kick off a two-year search for Mars colonists. Years before the crewed mission, the organization aims to send robot probes to Mars to scout colony location sites, with the first such mission planned to take place by 2016.

The foundation intends to have 24 astronauts in training by July 2015. Following the initial voyage to Mars in 2023, Mars One plans to send five more teams of four colonists to the planet every two years.

"We expect a million applications with one-minute videos, and hopefully some of those videos will go viral," Lansdorp, Mars One's CEO, told Space.com in London last week at a meeting of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS), the site reported.

Mars One will charge a fee for video submissions to both "weed out folks who aren't serious about their candidacy" and raise money for the ambitious project, he added. Fees will vary for applicants based on country of origin—Mars One will accept applications from all over the world, according to Space.com—with a maximum entry fee of $25.

Who Wants to Be a Mars Colonist? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

**foresterx** · April 20th, 2013 04:41 PM

if i didn't have a family and can qualify i wouldn't mind at all.

**CVT** · April 20th, 2013 11:02 PM

The fund generated from the applications will keep the program afloat.....

18.8k:dance1:

**Sugar_Kane** · April 20th, 2013 11:41 PM

Somehow it reminded me of one of my favorite films, Gattaca.

**yebo** · April 21st, 2013 07:55 AM

walang internet dun.
wala din tsikot.
walang SM.
walang jollibee.
walang imax. kahit hbo at cinemax wala.
walang san miguel beer, although i only drink once in a blue moon nowadays.
walang ice cream.
walang zambales mangoes at iba pastillas.
walang beach.
a basta wala lahat..

tapos paano kung lalaki kayong 4 na astromauts, e di wala din pupuy! maliban na lang kung dingbads ka, eeeewwww!

**renzo_d10** · April 21st, 2013 10:56 AM

Masturbate nalang daw. :hysterical:

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**Retz** · April 22nd, 2013 09:53 AM

sample naman ng video dyan.

**donbuggy** · February 20th, 2014 02:24 AM

Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on MARS as there is 'no righteous reason' to be there | Mail Online

By TED THORNHILL
PUBLISHED: 13:32 GMT, 19 February 2014 | UPDATED: 14:07 GMT, 19 February 2014

A Fatwa has been issued against living on Mars by clerics who say that trying to live there would be un-Islamic.

The fatwa – or ruling – was issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment (GAIAE) in the UAE after the Mars One organisation announced that it would try and establish a permanent human settlement on Mars.

The committee argued that trying to dwell on the planet would be so hazardous as to be suicidal and killing oneself is not permitted by Islam.

According to Khaleejtimes.com it said: ‘Such a one-way journey poses a real risk to life, and that can never be justified in Islam. There is a possibility that an individual who travels to planet Mars may not be able to remain alive there, and is more vulnerable to death.’

The astronauts, the committee said, would end up dying for no ‘righteous reason’ and would face the same punishment in the afterlife as someone who’d committed suicide.

The committee, led by Professor Dr Farooq Hamada, said: ‘Protecting life against all possible dangers and keeping it safe is an issue agreed upon by all religions and is clearly stipulated in verse 4/29 of the Holy Quran: Do not kill yourselves or one another. Indeed, Allah is to you ever Merciful.’