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In an online article entitled "Screening from 100 to 24," Norbert Kraft, Chief Medical Officer of Mars One, outlines rounds three and four for candidate selection. According to Kraft, round three will take five days and concentrate on group dynamics challenges and observe the candidates as they break up into teams of 10 to 15 and learn to work together solving problems.
After the pool has been reduced to 40, they will then move onto round four where they'll be required to spend nine days in an isolation unit and their numbers will be further cut to 30. This will be followed by a four-hour Mars Settler Suitability Interview that will see the remaining candidates reduced to a pool to 24, who will be will be offered full-time employment with Mars One.
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Announced in 2012, the Mars One project aims to land four colonists on Mars in 2025, where they would remain for the rest of their lives with additional colonists sent as Earth and Mars come back into the right launch position every 18 months or so. Living in habitats set up previously by unmanned rovers, the colonists would live off the land for their raw materials, while being the focus of a reality television show beamed back to Earth.
In Roman times people were fed to lions for entertainment. In the 21st century, it's this.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @11:12AM
Mars One is one dumb-ass con operation preying on morons born every half a second.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @12:14PM
So 24 idiots will be rocketed off the planet and you are still complaining?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @12:25PM
I say not a cent of funding unless they increase their seating capacity dramatically and change their operation name to "Mars One - the Second Ship".
(Score: 5, Informative) by splodus on Sunday July 19 2015, @11:17AM
https://medium.com/matter/mars-one-insider-quits-dangerously-flawed-project-2dfef95217d3 [medium.com]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 19 2015, @05:20PM
Best case scenario: Mars One fades from the public consciousness, they take the money and run (not to Mars), and NASA lands a team on Mars in the 2030s.
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(Score: 2) by cosurgi on Sunday July 19 2015, @11:28PM
True, as much as I love the idea to colonize Mars (see my sig), the "Mars one" is a scam. They took a lot of money and didn't even talk with spaceship industry about which ship they would supposedly use. Heck, they just take money and do nothing.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday July 19 2015, @11:30AM
who will be will be offered full-time employment with Mars One.
This part surprises me, my impression, and a quick read of the wikipedia page for anything more recent, indicates they're in the "hundreds of thousands of dollars raised" stage.
At a startup, this would be when two trust fund babies would be trying to pin down which outsourced-mom-service they're going to provide to other SV trust fund babies, but mars one is already trying to hire 24 people, so paying them oughta be interesting.
A billionaire dying and willing all his dough to them would be a game changer. Maybe there's something in the financial statement under accounts receivable thats like 8 or 9 digits, but is super private at this time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @04:23PM
They're just banking on the idea that it doesn't matter. People will pay anything to be told they're going to see anything. Reality doesn't come around to do the auditing for many years and frequently can be dodged with some slippery legal teams.