People to live in Mars by 2023

Mars Today. I'm a bad and lazy blogger, this image is not mine.

I guess Total Recall will be a reality very soon. I never saw the new one, but a fan of the one made in 1990. The NES game surely sucked. But anyways, according to this article here, we will have our first full-time inhabitants of Mars in 2023 (borrowing from the Christian Science Monitor, oh boy). Would A Walk to Aquarius be around in 2023? Heh… likely not. But anyways, yes, what they are starting with is four astronauts and as time progresses, the town would go up to 300.  Some company known as Mars One is doing all the paperwork and giving the thumbs up on the candidates for a seven-year training program. And also, a reality show is planned around all of this.

                Seven years? If they are training full-time all the way from now until 2020, I’d say they are trying to squeeze some money out from the people looking to go there. I would say that going to mars is not an easy task and of course, it’s far different from Earth. But seven years? Well, we would have to see if it’s full-time or part-time, it just seems like the company wants their “customers” to take things seriously. Plus, when the time comes to head over to our lovely Red Planet, it will take some time to get there. This article explains that, but on average, it takes four to six months, even as we progress ten years into the future which may lessen the trip as technology advances, it will still take a while to get our four finalists to Mars. I imagine some Conspiracy Theorists will say that they have a teleport machine such as the one in Star Trek and they get there in seconds. Perhaps we will see Jesse Ventura talk about that in his show? Who knows? He was wrong about the 2012 phenomenon.

 

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