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19. over 18,000 people applied to go with NASA

Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:32 AM

Feb 2016

and those are just the smart, fit, socially adjusted best of us (presumably.) They are going about narrowing the potential emigrants down to 8 or so.

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/2016/02/19/record-number----18000----apply-nasa-astronauts/80624074/

And that doesn't even count the 78,000 who want to live in the corporate utopian version, the Mars Colony Project. WTF.

http://www.space.com/21005-mars-one-colony-applications.html

So get in line.

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