What Made 400 People Volunteer for a One-Way Mission to Mars

To Boldly Go: What Made 400 People Volunteer for a One-Way Mission to Mars?

By Maxim Lott

Published January 10, 2011

| FoxNews.com


An interplanetary trip to Mars could take as little as 10 months, but returning would be virtually impossible -- making the voyage a form of self-imposed exile from Earth unlike anything else in human history.

What would inspire someone to volunteer? We've just found out.

A special edition of the Journal of Cosmology details exactly how a privately-funded, one-way mission to Mars could depart as soon as 20 years from now -- and it prompted more than 400 readers to volunteer as colonists.

"I've had a deep desire to explore the universe ever since I was a child and understood what a rocket was," Peter Greaves told FoxNews.com. Greaves is the father of three, and a jack-of-all-trades who started his own motorcycle dispatch company and fixes computers and engines on the side.

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Jose Jimanez (Bill Dana): "People of United State America, please don't let them do this to me."

What Made 400 People Volunteer for a One-Way Mission to Mars?

My guess is that their Internet Homepage got stuck on the 285Bound Courthouse and they just could not take the pathetic political sh*t that comes off the screen on a daily basis.
It is probably the people that have registered to this forum but never post.
You guys are an embarrassment to the corridor you know that?

If I wasn't married I would go. Imagine being one of the first earthlings to set foot upon another planet.
I do think the ride would be super boring. Could I still have access to 285Bound and the internet?

Whatevergreen wrote: What Made 400 People Volunteer for a One-Way Mission to Mars?

My guess is that their Internet Homepage got stuck on the 285Bound Courthouse and they just could not take the pathetic political sh*t that comes off the screen on a daily basis.
It is probably the people that have registered to this forum but never post.
You guys are an embarrassment to the corridor you know that?

Sorry to embarrass you. Does this mean your name is on the list heading for Mars? I hope so because the world could certainly do with one less self-righteous a--hole. rofllol

Would flies survive on Mars? Hmm?

There are definitely a bunch of self righteous people in this country.

I think it would be like volunteering to spend life in prison. Ever going to be able to breath outside air? Nope

I've been couped up with people in a confined area for months on a fishing boat...I wanted to throw some of them overboard after the second month.

Could we nominate people to go on a one way trip to Mars?
How about Nancy Pelosi, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, James Carville, & Keith Olberman?

And if we put them all together, how long before they killed each other, were killed by the rest of the crew, or used up all the oxygen debating?

That's not called debating SS. It is preaching to the choir.