Mars Colonization Mission Will Happen Live on Reality TV

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 12:02 in Astronomy & Space

Mars One A Mars mission, paid for with ad space. Mars One One of the primary obstacles to human colonization of Mars is the funding -- creating a habitable environment and sending humans across the gulf of space is a costly process, well beyond the exploration budgets of most nations. But Nobel Prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft and Big Brother co-creator Paul Romer have a brilliant solution that will put colonists on Mars by 2023. The key: Fund the whole shebang by turning the mission into reality TV. The Dutch company Mars One is managing the project, and in its explanatory video below, talking heads call the project (a little euphemistically maybe) a "media event," comparing it to the moon landing. They also tout the fact that its apolitical and taxpayer-independent, a private space endeavor, paid for by eyeballs on screens. Romer told The Daily Mail: The entire world will be able to...

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