"Mars Needs People," sound like a movie title, a B- move, grindhouse style. The net is buzzing since NASA let out the call that Mars needs volunteers for a one-way trip-- one way to save money -- and preferably, wealthy volunteers, with the cash to pay their own way, are wanted. Since the NASA call, some have joined in the game of suggesting whom to send to Mars, which wealthy dude or gal the planet earth can do without. The list is long. I won't linger on it. Sixty and fifty and seventy years old; eccentric billionaires, who is going to miss them?
Anyway, Keith Olbermann had a go at the one way ticket to Mars call. He began, with the observation -- "The subject of getting to mars has been subsidiary to the assumption that anyone on mars would try to get here first, to you know, kill us and eat us. This was reinforced by the fact the first six attempts to send unmanned probes there failed utterly. Two American ships never got out of earth's orbit, three Russian ships never got off the ground. a third disintegrated in the atmosphere. The fourth got to mars and kept right on going ..."
Oh my! See the video.
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