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This morning, Mars One, the nonprofit group aimed at establishing a human colony on Mars by 2025, announced its final 100 candidates for the one-way mission to Mars. The candidates have been narrowed down from the initial 200,000 applicants; in the end, 24 people will be chosen to make up the project’s six crews of four people each. While breaking this human barrier of our solar system seems like a notion realized only in dreams, Mars One hopes to make it a reality; however, the rest of the Internet community responded to this morning’s news with overwhelming skepticism and ridicule. A few weeks ago, I was listening to a podcast (I can’t remember which one) in which a young woman expressed her excitement for being selected to move a step further towards her “dreams” of going to Mars. Now, at the time, I had already heard of some project that was focused on sending people to Mars, but didn’t really now much about it. While the podcast episode, in essence, gave me more insight on the details behind Mars One, the woman’s monologue made me fearful for the future of science and technology. This fear didn’t arise out of an opposition to innovation or of an opposition to humanity’s push into a new frontier; nay – rather, I was fearful of the project’s potential to discourage people from having future faith in science and technology. Such a fear was founded in the fact that the woman on the podcast admitted that she applied to the Mars One mission only after being turned away from participating in the next season of The Bachelor - and, yes, this woman was one of the select few to have moved forward in the candidate process. Now, I’m not sure whether that same woman made it to the top 100 candidates pool, but I do know that some of the people selected to move their candidacy forward in the Mars One mission are as equally qualified to serve as astronauts and establish a human colony on another planet – that is to say: not at all qualified. I mean, there’s a woman who wants to set up the first sushi bar on Mars. Like, you know, because that desolate planet with remnants of ice totally has the fish supply to support that dream of hers. Reading further into some of the candidates’ reasons for making this one-way trip to the red planet, things get a bit grim – with many willing to go despite the high chance of dying; the Pacific Standard looked into the psychology of these people and basically summed it up as: they’re narcissistic, idiotic risk-takers. Overwhelmingly the Internet community agrees that 1) the people vying for a spot on Mars One are ludicrous, and 2) the Mars One mission simply won’t succeed. I mean, when you’ve got top science institutions like MIT exposing the inadequacy of Mars One’s technology, there’s little trust that such a mission can prevail. Did I also forget to mention that Mars One hopes to turn this into a reality series? So, yeah, there’s also that. We went through Reddit and Twitter to find some of the best Internet responses to the Mars One mission: Get more delivered to your inbox just like it!
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- Objavljeno 30. 08. 2013. - Kategorije - Tagovi - Denis Jeleć [VIDEO] Imate još samo jedan dan za prijave za selidbu na Mars Nakon što se više od 165 tisuća ljudi prijavilo za misiju neprofitne organizacije Mars One, postaju poznati i neki detalji. Cilj misije je inače uspostaviti trajnu ljudsku koloniju na Marsu do 2023. godine. Okvirno godinu prije toga, odabrat će se četiri osobe za put – prvi stanovnici crvenog planeta. Iz više od 140 zemalja svijeta se za projekt prijavilo više od 165 tisuća ljudi, s tim da je najmlađi prijavljeni 18-godišnjak, a najstariji 80-godišnjak. Trošak prijave je iznosio od 5 do 73 američka dolara, ovisno o lokaciji, a vremena za konačno prijavljivanje ima samo do subote. Kroz sljedeća tri izborna kruga, tim projekta Mars One će morati odabrati samo šačicu ljudi… Troškovi jednosmjernog putovanja i postavljanja “naselja” u pogon su procijenjeni na šest milijardi američkih dolara, a među ciljevima je i slanje posebnog vozila (rover) te medicinskog i inženjerskog osoblja. Uz ranije spomenute četiri osobe, svake dvije godine bi u naselje stizala još četiri člana. “Očekujemo kako će članovi postati jasni do kraja tekuće godine”, rekao je Bas Lansdorp, suosnivač Mars One. Organizacija se nada imati ukupno šest timova po četiri člana koji će početi s treninzima, a najvažnija karakteristika će biti – timski rad. Mars One grupa će provesti sedam godina za treniranje prve gomilice od 24 astronauta, a organizacija je već u pregovorima s dobavljačima mehaničkih i tehničkih potrepština, koje bi trebale osigurati zdravlje posade/naseljenika ali i put do crvenog planeta. Organizacija u ovom trenutku razgovara i sa SpaceX, kompanijom Elona Muska čiji je san ljudska posjeta Marsu. Lansdorp je potvrdio kako je za svaku od komponenti potrebnih za putovanje i život na Marsu tražen barem po jedan ponuđač. Lansdorp napominje i kako je cijela organizacija ostala šokirana količinom ljudi koji su se prijavili za projekt, ali i općenitim zanimanjem za njega. Iako su šanse za gore spomenutog 80-godišnjaka iznimno male, suosnivač organizacije u tome vidi samo pozitivno – jasno je kako postoji ljudska potreba za nastavak istraživanja onoga što se samo prividno postavlja ograničenjem. Okviran plan misije je moguće pronaći na službenoj stranici.