{"id":181537,"date":"2015-02-23T23:16:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=181537"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T03:48:01","slug":"one-way-tickets-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/02\/one-way-tickets-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Chinese Shortlisted for One-Way Tickets to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/1721547\/two-chinese-shortlist-mission-mars\"><strong>Two mainland Chinese citizens\u00a0are among the top 100 candidates shortlisted for the Mars One project<\/strong><\/a>, an ambitious plan devised by a Dutch entrepreneur\u00a0to form\u00a0a permanent human colony on Mars. Nectar Gan at South China Morning Post reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lin Xiaoxia and Li Dapeng are among 100 candidates shortlisted for Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp\u2019s Mars One project, which aims to send 24 people to set up a permanent colony on the Red Planet from 2024.<\/p>\n<p>They made the shortlist last week after making statements of good health and participating in online interviews. They will now take part in group challenges before the final list is announced by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt came as a total surprise, because the online interview did not go smoothly due to a bad connection,\u201d Lin, 31, a sales coordinator for a garment business in Guangzhou, said in an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post. \u201cI was so thrilled by the news I couldn\u2019t fall asleep at night. I kept imagining the scene when I land on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0The other mainlander, Li, is a 33-year-old father who has been in love with astronomy since his teenage years. He told the Post that the \u201cpossibility of completing the project is relatively low\u201d, but this would not prevent him from taking part \u201cwhole-heartedly\u201d. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/1721547\/two-chinese-shortlist-mission-mars\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nobel laureate and Mars One project ambassador <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/feb\/23\/mars-one-plan-colonise-red-planet-unrealistic-leading-supporter\">Gerard\u2019t Hooft has suggested that the plan&#8217;s timetable and cost estimates are wildly optimistic<\/a>, The Guardian reported on Monday: 100 years, he believes, is a more realistic timeframe than ten. After <a href=\"http:\/\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/2014\/technical-feasibility-mars-one-1014\">researchers assessed the proposals last year<\/a>, MIT astronautics professor Olivier de Weck commented that &#8220;we\u2019re not saying, black and white, Mars One is infeasible. But we do think it\u2019s not really feasible under the assumptions they\u2019ve made.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two mainland Chinese citizens\u00a0are among the top 100 candidates shortlisted for the Mars One project, an ambitious plan devised by a Dutch entrepreneur\u00a0to form\u00a0a permanent human colony on Mars. 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