Wednesday, January 12, 2011

400 Volunteer for One-Way Trip to Mars

Sure, being one of the first people to land on Mars would be pretty cool. But what if you couldn't come back to Earth to brag about it?
Much of the buzz surrounding two scientists' proposed trip to Mars published in the Journal of Cosmology has ridiculed the mission for its cost-efficient yet unappealing suggestion that the trip be a one-way flight, in which passengers must live out the rest of their lives on the red planet.
So who would willingly give up life on Earth for exile on a strange and inhospitable planet?

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