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52 Russians selected for the Mars colonization project, implemented by a Dutch company Mars One. By 2023 the company plans to establish a permanent base on the Red Planet. At the same time the colonialists are not guaranteed a return to Earth. Thursday, January 2 project organizers reported that more than 200 thousand people have expressed their desire to live on Mars. The site Mars One registered, paying 5 to $ 75, volunteers from 107 countries, the media pass.





The dark areas on the surface of Mars, scientists have in the past been associated with water or vegetation. Photo: NASA / Hubble

Primary selection of candidates passed in 1058. Most of them are citizens of the USA (297), Canada (75), India (62) and Russia. About 77% of the candidates are employed, 15% - in school. More than half selected - a man no older than 35 years.



The face of Mars. Original photo taken orbiter "Viking-1" in 1976. Photo: NASA

"It was very difficult to separate those who, in our opinion, is really ready to become ambassadors of humanity on Mars, from the frivolous relating to our mission," - said the founder and CEO of Bas Lansdorp. In 2015, «Mars One» expects to generate first 6 groups of 4 people each: then will begin a seven-year preparation for the flight and the colonists survive on the Red Planet.



Bigfoot on Mars. Photo: NASA / JPL / Cornell / James Canvin

It is expected that first go to Mars robots that from 2016 to 2020 built residential and office units. Flight to Mars will take about 7 months, and in 2023 to Mars arrive kosmolёt with the first group of settlers - two men and two women. Two years later, they will replace the other group. As planned, the official language will be English on Mars.



What it is at the center of this image? Pharaoh statue, carved in the Martian rock? Photo: NASA

Colonization of Mars, according to Dutch scientists, will cost $ 6 billion. Funds for the project company Mars One is going to get from sponsors, as well as by attracting inhabitants of the earth as an audience interactive program that will show the whole mission from beginning to end.

Organizers of the project does not hide the fact that the mission is extremely dangerous. Meanwhile, Montreal Concordia University professor and consultant Mars One Paradise Cass remarked: "Someone called suicide and people landing on the moon. But people do it. Do on Mars ».



"Trees" on Mars. Photo: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona

Well, and on Mars some day, if not apple blossom, what a plant from the earth.
We were born to make a fairy tale come true ...



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