20,000 people have already applied for the one-way mission to Mars

[conuly]

http://bit.ly/18eAk46

Well, going to Mars would be pretty great... but not if you have to be on TV, I think.

On the other hand, unlike the cast of Survivor et al., you'd be remembered for posterity, really remembered. Depending on your perspective that actually might be the same hand.

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[redbird]

One of those 20,000 is someone I know, who posted about it: he both doubts they will take him, for disability reasons, and is not at all sure he would go if accepted (because it is a one-way trip, and would mean spending the rest of his life without neither of the women he loves). So I wonder how many of those 20,000 would actually go if the selection team turned up and said "you're in, we're leaving Thursday."

[conuly]

Good point.