78,000 apply for one-way mission to Mars

[PATRICK]

31. Does anyone remember

that mars has to rendered habitable first? Four people are expected to live in a small station resupplied, or the corpses replaced every two years?

There are some pretty basic details even a moron should want to know. Sending a cockroach over and seeing if it lasts more than a minute might be an interesting Youtube video but too expensive. this is just as nutty, much more so actually than all the people who bought tickets on the future spaceliner to the moon. We can't even make a viable environment for a self sustainable enclosed environment on earth. if you wanted to get away from it all without suffering the unknown deteriorization living in lower gravity, etc.
and still have air to breathe, not thin stuff that comes at you hundreds of miles per hour, you could set up a merry crew in the middle of the world's worst desert and much cheaper and a better chance of getting out even if it meant walking.

Is there some information about this scam that makes it sound less absurd?