Mars One plans to build a settlement on Mars

Mars One announced it would build a Mars settlement in 2023, sounding like a fiction story, but it was completely true.

The Dutch-funded privately owned company has a plan, and all they need is a lot of money, equipment and four astronauts ready to take a one-way journey to the planet. red.

The idea is to first bring self-propelled robots to Mars in search of an ideal location for settlement and then build housing quarters.

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Model of a settlement on Mars

By 2022, the crew will make a seven-month trip to Mars and stay in their new homes, to the end of their lives. Every two years, another crew will join the settlement to reside on the planet.

Mars co-founder One Bas Lansdorp has a very modern approach to funding the project, which is opening the project with media. He stressed: 'We will sponsor this mission by creating the largest ever media event around it. People around the world can witness everything going on during the preparation and on Mars ".

According to Bas Lansdorp, this will be a reality television program that itself embraces the element of adventure that we do not have to create any artificial challenges.

The idea of ​​another world stimulated curiosity on the web. Mars One's video has attracted 232,000 views on YouTube since it was released a week ago. In addition to entertainment, some scientists are also attracted by the ability to interplanetary travel.

The theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft, a Mars One ' mission messenger ' , supports the plan. He affirmed that the project seems to be the only way to fulfill the dream of exploring humanity's universe. It will be an interesting experiment.

In 2013, Mars One will begin the process of selecting astronauts.