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http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/...ndex.html?hpt=wo_mid

The 10,000 are spaced-out freaks. 

All the applicants are prepared to be Mars Guinea pigs. They brave enough to travel across many light-years away from earth to an unknown world and never to return. They say life is a journey.

Mars is only around 18 light minutes at its farthest distance from us  and 4 light minutes at it's closest. No one is going to mars in the next couple of decades. It takes too many billions to send out supplies and stable environmental structures in advance of sending people. Further, we can only send a few at a time since we have no way to send self sustaining populations into space as yet.  We do not even know how to build many of the necessary structures to protect us from the low carbon dioxide atmosphere, high winds and possibly caustic soil. We can only speculate on the nature of the place to this point. That website is a fairy tale,

I say we send a few from GNI, some a dem boys not busy for the next one, five,twelve years or so.