Mission to Mars - best reality TV show yet to come?

[Turkey]

Mars One introduction film (updated version)

Mars One is a not-for-profit foundation that will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023. Human settlement on Mars is possible today with existing technologies. Mars One mission plan integrates components that are well tested and readily available from industry leaders worldwide. The first footprint on Mars and lives of the crew thereon will captivate and inspire generations; it is this public interest that will help finance this human mission to Mars.

The Mars One mission plan consists of cargo missions and unmanned preparation of a habitable settlement, followed by human landings. In the coming years, a demonstration mission, communication satellites, two rovers and several cargo missions will be sent to Mars. These missions will set up the outpost where the human crew will live and work.

The mission design takes into account the expansion of the human colony where a new crew arrive every two years.

Mars One will select and train the human crew for permanent settlement. The search for Astronauts began in April 2013. More than 78,000 registered for the selection programme within two weeks of its launch.

Stichting Mars One is a Dutch non-for-profit foundation. It is the mother company of Interplanetary Media Group, a for-profit company, which enables the foundation to secure funds from its investors.

This is so surreal and mindblowing at the same time. I'd love to apply, but moving to Mars for good and play Adam and Eve, living in danger far from your family and friends and the habits you had on Earth? Though the thought of being the first human on Mars, the first human that has ever went so far is really teasing me. 

If any of you are over 18 and really have the guts to go there, you can apply on their website with a fee according to the GDP of your country. Chances are quite low you will even get attention, though. Currently there are way over 80,000 applicants.

[durrrrr]

I don't know how stupid should one be to leave the Earth for Mars. Maybe in a few hundred years, maybe with future technology it would be sane, but not after a decade.

[Zezima]

put me in a spacecraft and im comin to the mars to party

[Fuse]

Do you get a chance to come back or do you just die there?

[Turkey]

You live and die there, since it's impossible to return with another spacescraft. They WOULD be able to return as soon as we've built futuristic spaceships that are able to land and take off from other planets and travel in space.. But the thing is, these people that have applied know there's no return and they want to stay there. I've bought the documentary at www.onewayastronaut.com and there's a German guy that wants to take part, eventhough he's married and has 3 children. Pretty crazy imho.

[Kase]

Do you get a chance to come back or do you just die there?

You'll have to stay there until you die. It's an interesting project, but I wonder how they'll keep order up there. Chances are someone will go nuts.

[Turkey]

Yeah, that was my thought, too. But I don't see that happening. They will train for 8-10 years, so if they go nuts they will do so during the training and then be excluded from the mission and when it comes to murder on Mars: Everything is being recorded, so I doubt they will kill someone up there infront of a 7 billion audience.

[Zezima]

i wana go to mars then id go nuts and kill whole of my crew LOL id be trolin on camera back to earth, no police would have a chance to arrest me for killing whole of my mars crew hehehhehehhehehehhehehehh then id die my self

[Turkey]

How would you even be able to kill anyone without weapons, you're a weak erm.. nerd..

[IDmad]

Yeah, that was my thought, too. But I don't see that happening. They will train for 8-10 years, so if they go nuts they will do so during the training and then be excluded from the mission and when it comes to murder on Mars: Everything is being recorded, so I doubt they will kill someone up there infront of a 7 billion audience.

Well there hasn't been much research about the effects of prolonged space travel, radiation etc. However it's been well documented that people that have been isolated for long periods of time in small spaces (prisoners, volunteers etc.) have started to get all sorts of mental problems; losing their minds and becoming aggressive and violent.

There was the Mars-500 experiment a few years ago where 6 ppl spent 1,5 years in a small capsule simulating a trip to mars and back. Even they experienced some mental and physical problems problems during that experiment, eventho they were less than 10 meters away from the people monitoring them, which means they weren't properly isolated after all.

Knowing that you're so far away from the rest of the civilization, that if anything happens, it'll take atleast a year before anyone could get there and even the radio messages will take 20 minutes to arrive. That's a haunting thought and I'm sure it will eventually become too much for someone. And I'm sure radiation etc. will have some kind of effect on human psyche aswell.

The bottom line is, that if this project really happens and they manage to send humans into mars, it won't end up well. Too much doing and not enough planning... Mark my words.