{"id":1909,"date":"2013-08-14T16:46:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2013-08-14T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T15:46:56","slug":"the-mars-reality-show-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1909","title":{"rendered":"The Mars Reality Show Has Begun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard about the private-sector &#8220;Mars One&#8221; project to colonize Mars, you should check it out &#8211; I <a href=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1331\" target=\"_blank\">posted about it back in April<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0The project envisions being largely financed by the proceeds of a reality show to eventually beam back to Earth as the 7 billion of us who stay behind follow the exploits of the first colonists. \u00a0Well, the project has been accepting applications for a number of months now, and there are over 100,000 people vying to be among the first humans to leave Earth on a one-way trip to Mars. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2013\/08\/130813-mars-one-video-science-space-applications-humor-astronauts\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic has given us their favorites<\/a>, and you can add your voice to the growing number of people supporting the applicants by checking out the <a href=\"http:\/\/applicants.mars-one.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mars One Applicants website<\/a>\u00a0as well. \u00a0The top applicant (by public vote) is a 36-year-old Filipino man, with twelve million &#8220;likes&#8221; &#8211; more than five times the next most popular applicant, from China. \u00a0Oddly, he managed to get twelve million &#8220;likes&#8221; despite having only 15,000 views.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s not clear (to me, anyway) whether the Mars One organizers feel bound by public opinion; one would think that being able to communicate with each other, having a good balance of skills, and things like resilience and physical fitness would be bigger factors. \u00a0Or maybe just TV watchability.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the applicants <a href=\"http:\/\/applicants.mars-one.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and decide for yourself. \u00a0And there are still two weeks left until the application deadline!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard about the private-sector &#8220;Mars One&#8221; project to colonize Mars, you should check it out &#8211; I posted about it back in April. \u00a0 \u00a0The project envisions being largely financed by the proceeds of a reality show to eventually beam back to Earth as the 7 billion of us who stay behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[708],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-musings","tag-mars-one"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}