11 January 2011

400 volunteers for a one-way mission to Mars?

Whose idea was it to disturb all these good people for nothing? I could have prepared a list of 400 candidates in a jiffy and for free.

3 comments:

Francis Sedgemore said...

Why waste a good planet on the kind of people you have in mind? I think of more appropriate places in our solar system. As for Mars, I'd volunteer for the one-way trip. Pioneer spirit and all that bollocks. Only it isn't all bollocks, as the quoted words of those volunteers shows.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, not all of it is bollocks, but I would still prefer a milder climate for my vacation. Like South Pole or summat.

Dick Stanley said...

I think it was sci fi writer Charlie Stross who said anyone wanting to settle Mars should start with the Gobi desert in winter while wearing a fireman's respirator.