{"id":33288,"date":"2013-09-10T20:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T16:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=33288"},"modified":"2013-09-10T20:45:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T16:45:44","slug":"would-you-sign-up-to-die-on-mars-200000-people-around-the-the-world-apply-for-a-one-way-ticket-to-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=33288","title":{"rendered":"Would you sign up to die on MARS? 200,000 people around the the world apply for a one-way ticket to the red planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-colony-as-it-is-expected-to-look-in-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33286\" alt=\"The colony as it is expected to look in 2015\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-colony-as-it-is-expected-to-look-in-2015.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-colony-as-it-is-expected-to-look-in-2015.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-colony-as-it-is-expected-to-look-in-2015-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/The-colony-as-it-is-expected-to-look-in-2015-500x190.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A one-way ticket to a barren, hostile landscape, where temperatures can drop as low as -150\u00b0C, might not sound like everyone\u2019s dream destination.<\/p>\n<p>But as of the application deadline a week ago, more than 200,000 people from 140 different countries have applied to be among the first colonists on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The applicants have agreed to stay on the red planet for the rest of their lives \u2013 and be filmed for a reality TV programme, said the company behind the mission, Mars One.<\/p>\n<p>They added that landing systems will be tested eight times before they are used to transport humans \u2013 a move that Mars One said will make the trips \u2018much safer than moon missions\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>From the 200,000 applications, between 24 and 40 candidates will be selected to participate in a seven-year training program that would start in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The group said it aims to have a human settlement on Mars within a decade.<\/p>\n<p>But Dr Veronica Bray of the University of Arizona has expressed concerns about the project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-way ticket to a barren, hostile landscape, where temperatures can drop as low as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[2228],"class_list":["post-33288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-mars","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}