Mars One mission whittled down to 1058 applicants.

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Sort of jealous but the thought of no return to Earth, a diet of nothing but tinned rations and a regime of 3 hour exercise sessions a day to stave off muscle atrophy and being a centre of media sensationalism for the rest of my life takes the edge off it.

Then theres the question if this company has the werewithal and means to get these people there and keep them well.

http://rt.com/news/mars-one-applicants-selected-039/

The comments on that article are gold.

I doubt that the astronauts will become celebrities until the final stages of selection. Good luck to them- I know I wouldn't want to leave Earth forever.

No thanks I would not want to go on a one way mission to Mars, my worrys include

1. The large cosmic ray radiation dose, I know in the manned moon missions then plan was to turn the space ship around to give the humans as much shielding as possible from the sun if it went into a nasty state, they could then get the humans back to earth within 6 days to reduce the exposure time. With the mars mission no easy abort option exists, you could end up with a nasty proton / heavy ion dose. Maybe if you are unlucky you could get a dose which would cause nasty acute effects such as bone marrow damage, I know that the medical management of a radiation overexposure case is complex and not the sort of thing which could be done in a space ship. For a person with moderate bone marrow damage you would needs loads of blood transfusions, antibiotics and exotic drugs.

Given the choice I would rather get a moderate exposure on earth doing something worthwhile, at least after a moderate dose I could go home and put my feet up in my own home. Also if I was at a place like Fukushima during the worst phase of the accident tooled up with the right tools I would be able to decide at what point I had reached the maximum dose which I was willing to get before packing up and going home.

2. I would never be able to visit any of the places I love on earth again

3. I would never be able to go for a walk in the park again

4. I would have to leave my wife and family behind

5. I would not be able to pursue my special interests while in space, if I went to the south pole on a scientific mission I would have to leave some of my special interests behind but I could take others, plus it would only be for a limited time.

6. I think I woud hate the bland diet of tinned food

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I'm sorry but I doubt this will ever go from a dream to reality, let me see them put satellites in Martian orbit then maybe I'll believe there plans for putting Humans on Mars privately.

But I can't say much, if I was old enough to apply I would probably consider it, hell there ain't nothing for me for the future here, no partners and the sad thing is, I'm the only male along with my cousin left in this family generation capable of carrying on the name, If he and I are gone thats it my Family disappear.

It stands to reason that it would be far, far wiser to launch a series of automated habitat modules that would land on Mars and be able to self deploy. Then, the crew could follow and already have some "living space" to move into.

If we couldn't get Phase 1 done, no point in moving to Phase 2.

These people remind me of the ghouls from New Vegas, who travelled to outer space to find paradise—despite not knowing what could go wrong. With the present day technology, nobody can get to Mars quickly enough to not suffer any fatal damage. There's a reason why the deadline for manned missions get pushed 20 years back every 20 years.