No one has set foot on the Red planet, but a Dutch company wants to change that by colonizing Mars in a new reality show!
Called Mars One, the company has been recruiting volunteers from around the world to take a one way trip to Mars to live the rest of their lives on the Red planet in a bizarre new reality show.
Over ten thousand people have already volunteered for this mission and the first group of four astronauts will leave Earth and make the seven month trip in 2022. After that, a new group of four people will make the trip over every two years, never to return!
This “experiment” has, understandably, received a lot of criticism from the scientific community because it seems to have no scientific value. On top of that, the mission is extremely dangerous since the participants have no option to return to Earth and the fact that Mars is a barren planet which consists mostly of carbon dioxide and has freezing temperatures.
On top of that, sending one group of people to Mars would cost as estimated $56 billion which is an insane amount of money! What’s Mars One’s solution to the cost problem? Make the mission into a reality show, of course! With the entire world likely interested in the experiences of these brave souls and no taxpayer money involved in the project whatsoever, the company is sure that the viewership alone will generate enough money to foot the large bill.
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