100,000 people sign up for one-way ticket to Mars
 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...t-to-Mars.html

Sounds like an episode of Black Mirror.

yes a black mirror episode


Rich go to Mars

I cannot believe so many people have applied for this. It's a death sentence!

It all sounds great now, but on the night before their seven month one way spaceship journey to Mars i'm sure reality will kick in. :p

I'd be surprised if any of these people genuinely go through with it. The novelty will wear off a couple of months into the eight year training session!

I wouldn't go to space for free.... would you lot?

Going into space does not appeal to me, but this sounds genuinely brilliant. Being the first to colonize a new world. Yes please.

lol i would never go to space. i would be a nervous wreck and feel like i die from the not so good feelings i would get.

i'd honestly do it if i was fit enough and smart enough

You are going to die in this world anyway. If a person has no real ties be it family or a job, they have a genuine interest in science I don't see why they wouldn't do it. It would be a fantastic experience. You would be the first people that lived there and in 300 years from now people could be living there and children would be studying you in school.

Its Big Money thats needed
for this Flight.

Those people aren't going to die in this world :laugh: those are all very good points CynicalHermit! I just couldn't get my head around people willingly going somewhere totally alien knowing that that was the end.

I'm surprised no one has realised this is going to be a hoax show?
Holland is notorious from its hoax tv shows, remember the Big Donor Show?
This is quite clearly going to be another show similar to that Space Cadets show on C4 years back.

We already have a thread on this, I think Ben posted it ages ago.

They should turn it into a reality TV show.

"To vote for this moron to have their oxygen cut off, call.."

They should turn it into a reality TV show.

"To vote for this moron to have their oxygen cut off, call.."

I doubt this will be real. Sending a group of people to mars in addition to building a permanent settlement one they arrive there would probably be more than a trillion Euros in cost. As if a TV production company from a mid-level nation like Holland could finance that..

Think of the horrible things they will do to one another when they are no longer governed by Earth laws...

youd have to be a basket case to want to fly to mars

Can anyone find it?
Is Ben fussed?

I think they were going to plaster the whole thing in advertising and sponsorship deals though. Of course, I hadn't considered the possibility it was all a fake set up which does sound quite likely.

Are we allowed to nominate people? I have a list.

The Jews.

Only the reeeeally *******king stooopid ones.

Within 10 minutes of arriving, they'll be building walls and claiming god promised them Mars.


Boom.

No.... they'll be paying someone else to build the walls. And getting it done at a discount with a completion clause.