And then there were 1,058. Mars One, the nonprofit organization that wants to send colonists on a one-way lifetime trip to Mars, announced on Monday that it has narrowed its applicant pool down from 200,000 people to just over a thousand. The applicants were notified by email and Mars One says that the next selection phase in 2014 will reduce the pool still further in the search for the first settlers to go to the Red Planet in 2025. At first glance, the Mars One proposition seems like a 21st century take on Dr Samuel Johnson’s opinion of traveling by ship: It’s like being in a jail, with the chance of dying by explosive decompression. However, within two weeks of applications opening in April 2012, over 78,000 people applied to settle on Mars without a chance of returning to Earth. Though the applications never reached the anticipated half million mark, 200,000 did put their names in by the August 2013 cutoff.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:30:12 +0000
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