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Good morning. 80,000 have allegedly applied for a one-way mission to Mars

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Here’s a job where your retirement plan doesn’t matter:

Dutch company plans to choose crew for private mission with reality TV show, in order to meet $6bn cost

According to the company’s chief medical officer, Norbert Kraft, Mars One is eschewing the usual astronaut candidates – scientists and pilots – in favour of YouTube fanatics and internet people, “because what we are looking for is not restricted to a particular background.”

No, best guess it’s just people who can’t figure out what Goodbye means, in Dutch or English.

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Please do, and take all your buddies here with you!CharlieD
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If you are going to Mars, News, count me in!Mung
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Hmmmm, reminds me of the old Twilight Zone, "To Serve Man"OldArmy94
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