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Reality show wants applicants to live on Mars (seriously).

The nation that brought us Big Brother is now proposing to send four astronauts to Mars via a one way ticket.

2013-04-24_1620Those crazy Dutch are at it again.

The nation that brought us Big Brother, The Voice and Celebrity Splash is now proposing a Reality TV show in which plans to send four astronauts on a trip to Mars to set up a human colony in 2023.

But applicants will need to be prepared for a one-way ticket.

Mars One is a “not-for-profit organisation which intends to fund a decade-long endeavor by involving the whole world as the audience of an interactive, televised broadcast of every aspect of this mission, from the astronaut selections and their preparations to the arrival on Mars and their lives on the Red Planet.”

They claim, “We plan to fund it by making it the biggest media spectacle in history. This way, everyone will get the chance to not only watch the astronauts make their journey, but choose who gets to do so. Four people, icons, who will leave their life on Earth behind and start an adventure on a new planet tens of millions of miles away.

“To pay for the Mars mission, the Mars One foundation receives revenues from the license fee from the Interplanetary Media Group, sponsors, donations and the sales of merchandise.”

You’ll need to be 18 to apply and prepared to kiss your current life goodbye.

“Once on Mars, there is no means to return to Earth. Mars is home. A grounded, deep sense of purpose will help each astronaut maintain his or her psychological stability and focus as they work together toward a shared and better future.”

If you want to apply (and don’t say I sent you) you can check out mars-one.com

No word on who the host is yet!

24 Responses

  1. I’ll eat my hat if that show really does happen. No way would they be close to having people prepped for Mars to live there in 10 years time. The auto correct on my smart phone doesn’t even work properly and autocorrect has been out for a few years, so I don’t think this will happen.

  2. @laurie it depends on how far away Mars is from Earth at the time. its at its closest approach to Earth every 2 years. Travelling at 1,079,000,000 km/hour it would take 4 – 24 minutes for the signal to get to Earth, depending on the closeness at the time. Then that time to send a communication back with whoever is there.

  3. I wonder how much the insurance for celebrity splash is costing the network, seeing as every contestant in some way hurt themselves in the US version and an assistant died in the Chinese version.

  4. Anyone how applies is insane and wouldn’t be allowed to go.

    Humans will never set foot on Mars there is no point. If you want to live in a dry red sandy place the Simpson Desert makes much more sense and would have satellite TV.

    The Earth’s population will peak somewhere under 20b and then decline. The exact figure will depend on how fast development and education occurs in Africa and the Middle East.

    And the declining will probably be much worse than the growing. A stagnant global economy will be terrible.

  5. How would these applicants be screened? How could these people guarantee they wouldn’t lose it up there? Imagine if someone like Brandon from survivor was up there. I’m sure the scientists on the international space station would find it difficult enough let alone a contestant on a reality show. It’s an interesting concept yet a little disturbing.

  6. Might as well. Over the next few years, the Earth will eventually be at full capacity and wouldn’t take about 100 billion people. The Dutch are just preparing for Life on Mars.

  7. “A grounded, deep sense of purpose will help each astronaut maintain his or her psychological stability…”

    Good luck with that. They haven’t been able to find anyone yet that has remained stable for 3 months in a nice, airy, spacious house on Earth. This won’t be like Survivor with ready access to food and water, and the ability to bail at any time.

    This is surely someone’s pipe dream (prob a crack pipe). It’s not going to happen. Nobody will walk on Mars before 2030, let alone attention-seeking reality program contestants who just want to “be themselves” even if it means being a d**k.

  8. why would you want the people who are f*****g annoying on earth being the founders of life on Mars?

    and at what point do they turn of the cameras and say R.I.P?

  9. The one way ticket notion is the most sensible thing here. As Buzz Aldrin said: “They need to go there more with the psychology of knowing that you are a pioneering settler and you don’t look forward to go back home again after a couple of years,”

    It’s like those early explorer / sailors, they had no sense of returning whence they came.

  10. Why should the honour on first man/woman on mars fall to someone as unintelligent and idiotic as The Kardashians (but I am all for sending them far far away from earth)

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