Mars One plans suicide mission to Red Planet for 2023

There’s an old joke about sending someone you hate on a one-way trip to Mars. Now, a Dutch entrepreneur has formed a company around this concept -- and it’s no joke.

Bas Lansdorp, the 35-year-old founder of Mars One, told FoxNews.com his company is serious about a one-way mission. The company will hold a worldwide lottery next year to select 40 people for a training team. They will then set up a mock colony in the desert, possibly somewhere in the U.S., for three months. This initial team will be reduced to ten crew members.

They will then be sent to Mars, never again to return.

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Good for them. Assuming they make it, starving to death after cannibalism is an excellent way to go...

 

I wish they'd take James Franklin and Chris Berman

 

Couldn't they set up resupply drops, send them with a sustainable habitat... or something?

Just make sure they can't have kids enroute or there. That wouldn't be fair.

 

Could they create a green house? Yea, probably. But don't they have a huge cancer risk?

But I guess as to resupply, wha is the travel time?

 

3 years, last I heard.

 

You could send supplies ahead, and then launch a new set every 6 months or something... Expensive, but eff a suicide mission.

 

Natural selection keeps getting more and more expensive. ****ing Obamacare.

 

Question is, do they name the landing site Plymouth Rock or Roanoke?

 

Will they erroneously dub the natives Indians?

 

Awesome. Count me in.

 

I have the strangest urge to watch Airplane 2 this morning.

 

Maybe the first time anybody has ever said this.

 

Can we send lawgator and mr two bits on this adventure?