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People who have volunteered to die on Mars
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Can you believe it, there are not only volunteers for this suicide mission but so many that they had to have a competition to select the best.

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Meet the people who have volunteered to die on Mars

Thousands of people are competing to be the first humans to travel to Mars and colonize it. The only catch--they can never come back. Ever.

Mars One, an interplanetary travel nonprofit, will soon select the next round of wannabe astronauts from the nearly 700 current finalists. While making a short movie about the competition for The Guardian, we at Stateless Media had a chance to speak to a few people vying for one of the coveted seats on a Mars One Spaceship. I learned the following: they are all really smart, incredibly brave, and a little bit crazy.

Actually, they're a lot of bit crazy. And that’s a good thing. Because it takes a certain kind of person to choose to live the rest of their lives stranded on a desert planet with no breathable air, no Netflix, no Snapchat, no Game of Thrones, no General Tso's Chicken, and no long, romantic walks on the beach. Oh yeah, and no sex. Like I said, crazy.

RELATED: Are we all Martians? The curious hunt for life on Mars

Since the dawn of the Space Age, we have always selected our best and brightest, our most physically fit, and our most Tom-Hanks-like humans to be our ambassadors in outer space. Mostly because leaving earth has been hard. Astronauts needed to know how to fly jets, fix computers, and conduct all sorts of science experiments--all in zero gravity and in space suits that look really tricky to get on and off.

But while the challenges of space travel remain unfathomable to your average selfie-snapping, Starbucks-swilling Downton Abbey fan (raises hand), they are now much more manageable. Enough so that the future colonists of Mars do not need to be pulled from the highest ranks of the Air Force. With current technology we can rocket humans to Mars in about nine months, about the same time an astronaut spends on the International Space Station. Not a walk in the park, but it will not require any year-long naps in a cryo-chamber. And thanks to decades of reconnaissance by Curiosity, Opportunity, and the rest of NASA’s band of Merry Rovers, we know most of what astronauts will need to survive on Mars once they get there: souped-up spacesuits to protect against massive dust storms and sub-freezing temperatures; tons of freeze-dried food; housing pods that can shield against radiation; and a big drill to unlock the frozen water beneath the Mars surface. It's not easy living, but not too unlike, say, Minnesota.

The hard part will not be staying alive but staying sane. You laugh now about your old AOL dial-up connection in college, but how about 20 minutes just to refresh your Twitter feed? You may be able to survive without oxygen, but can you live without bagels? Sex? Love? Our first colonists on Mars will have to be more than just brave and smart. They will have to be weird enough to handle extreme isolation.

Here is a proposed Survival Guide to Life on Mars. Do you have the right stuff to make it on the Red Planet?

What you’ll have to live without:

Sex. Colonists will be discouraged from intercourse because supplies won’t support the arrival of a space baby.
Beer. Sorry, carbonated beverages won’t survive the low atmospheric pressure of Mars.
Grass fed venison burgers with black truffle oil and chopped prosciutto. And any other food that can’t be freeze-dried.
Your loved ones. You think Skype on earth is annoying? Wait until you’re 35 million miles away.
Your 2026 World Cup tickets.
What you’ll need:

Curiosity. Thinking about all those schools and post offices that will be named after you may not be enough to sustain your sense of mission. To avoid the extreme loneliness I’ll call the Matt Damon syndrome, a future Mars colonist will have to possess a true fascination with the unknown.
A tablet with plenty of books, including Travis Taylor's Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering and perhaps, How To Win at Bridge
Healthy self-esteem. There are no mirrors in space.
Meat glue, aka transglutaminase, to turn the pre-fab protein they serve up there into a real meal.
Your friend’s HBOGo password for finally catching up on The Wire.
Scotch.
Condoms. Because who are we kidding? You’re really going to pass up space sex?

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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Stonehenge]
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I will volunteer right now for this.


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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Gilgamesh18]
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they trapping a group of mixed sex people in a space pod on mars and expect them not to have sex? What else are they gonna do haha?


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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Gilgamesh18]
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Gilgamesh18 said:
I will volunteer right now for this.


What is your motive? Do you think it will be fun and exciting? A Chinese prison camp sounds more inviting, at least there is a chance of getting out.


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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.” (attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville political philosopher Circa 1835)

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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Stonehenge]
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We have to be grateful for their sacrifice - if they make it to Mars. :amusedapplause:

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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Stonehenge]
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Stonehenge said:
Gilgamesh18 said:
I will volunteer right now for this.


What is your motive?


I will get to have a chance to claim land my descendants will be a dynasty.


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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Gilgamesh18]
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Gilgamesh18 said:
I will volunteer right now for this.


It is all I ever wished for... ever since I was a small child I wanted to be on Mars, death or no.


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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Turtletotem]
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Look at all the people, living and dying near their hometown like it all mattered somehow, as if the tiny space they occupy in time had any significance in the grand scheme of things whatsoever.
But not me.
No, I have crossed the infinite abyss, across vast gulfs of space and time, leaving behind all the petty bullshit people so desperately cling to, so that even in death I am more then they ever hoped to achieve. Set foot on another world... to be blessed like that... to see more then one world in this awesome Creation... truly, I would be as close to GOD then any mortal man may ever dare to aspire!

*Mad-scientist laughter*


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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Turtletotem] * 1
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Trade blue skies and sandy beaches for a desolate, isolated hunk of rock and dust? No thanks. Got to admire the courage of the volunteers, however.


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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Deltron3030] * 1
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I bet some of them start to crack on the journey over. 9 months in a cramped hell hole is no piece of cake. There would be less room than in a prison, no blue skies and the constant threat of sudden death. Then you get there and your reward is... to live in a cramped hell hole with no hope of return.

Your experience of mars will likely consist of looking out through a porthole. Few will get to travel outside but if you wait your turn, it may come. Then you get in the large clumsy space suit, go out and clump around saying "yee ha, I'm on mars!!" After about 10 minutes the thrill wears off and its back to the prison barracks for the rest of your life.

Most likely they will die of malnutrition, lack of oxygen or equipment failure. Other causes might be people going insane and killing everyone else which would not be hard to do. A large percentage will want to return at any cost and the fact they can't will be hard to deal with.

I'd love to visit if it was safe and if I could come right back. On second thought, the 9 month trip each way would be a deal killer. Nothing is worth that though I have often dreamed of walking on other planets. I'll settle for photos of mars and the ability to do what I want here.


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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.” (attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville political philosopher Circa 1835)

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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Stonehenge] * 3
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I will volunteer Gilgamesh for this right now


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“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”

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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: koods]
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koods said:
I will volunteer Gilgamesh for this right now


Hey I'm already volunteering!


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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Gilgamesh18]
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There is no way they can carry enough food to last them very long. Nukes would be the only reasonable power source. You would have to live with a plutonium reactor to keep you warm, split water to make oxygen and grow plants. No, not the kind that get you high just boring vegetables. Someone might smuggle pot seeds in, they would need it to withstand the boredom

There is an asshole in every group, often more than one. What to do about them? What to do about depression and homesickness? If a disease broke out it could decimate the whole crew.

Maybe you would meet some martians? Anyone else up for the trip or just gilg?


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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.” (attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville political philosopher Circa 1835)

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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Stonehenge] * 1
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Sounds like a bunch of people who have nothing to live for here more than it is about them colonizing a new planet that has 0% chance to sustain life without serious artificial colonization which we just simply don't have the resources to do.

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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Stonehenge] * 2
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Better a willing human participant than an innocent dog..




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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Stonehenge] * 1
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Stonehenge said:
I bet some of them start to crack on the journey over. 9 months in a cramped hell hole is no piece of cake. There would be less room than in a prison, no blue skies and the constant threat of sudden death. Then you get there and your reward is... to live in a cramped hell hole with no hope of return.

Your experience of mars will likely consist of looking out through a porthole. Few will get to travel outside but if you wait your turn, it may come. Then you get in the large clumsy space suit, go out and clump around saying "yee ha, I'm on mars!!" After about 10 minutes the thrill wears off and its back to the prison barracks for the rest of your life.

Most likely they will die of malnutrition, lack of oxygen or equipment failure. Other causes might be people going insane and killing everyone else which would not be hard to do. A large percentage will want to return at any cost and the fact they can't will be hard to deal with.

I'd love to visit if it was safe and if I could come right back. On second thought, the 9 month trip each way would be a deal killer. Nothing is worth that though I have often dreamed of walking on other planets. I'll settle for photos of mars and the ability to do what I want here.


This is an accurate depiction.  Not nearly as glamorous as we think.


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...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge.  It is an indellible experience; it is forever known.  I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did.

Smith, P.  Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.

...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

Osmond, H.  Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436

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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Uzziel] * 3
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Uzziel said:
Sounds like a bunch of people who have nothing to live for here


that's why I'd volunteer... :shrug:

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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Atreyu] * 5
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fools!.. all the trouble we went through as a species to get out of mars and now we want to go back and recolonize it??.. :facepalm:


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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: zZZz]
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Retreat!!!
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Re: People who have volunteered to die on Mars [Re: Deltron3030]
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Deltron3030 said:
Trade blue skies and sandy beaches for a desolate, isolated hunk of rock and dust? No thanks. Got to admire the courage of the volunteers, however.


This. I think most people are kidding themselves or don't actually understand what a one-way trip to Mars entails when they claim they'd be up for it.

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