When Joseph first signed up with Mars One — the media-hyped, one-way mission to colonize the red planet being floated by a Dutch non-profit — he didn’t think much of it. The former NASA researcher said he never really took the application seriously; he was just putting his hat in the ring mostly out of curiosity, and with the hope of bringing public attention to space science. But eventually Joseph — who is actually Dr. Joseph Roche, an assistant professor at Trinity College’s School of Education in Dublin, with a Ph.D. in physics and astrophysics — found himself on the group’s shortlist of 100 candidates all willing to undertake the theoretical journey. And that’s when he started talking to me about the big problems he was seeing with Mars One.
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(Illustration: Josh Cochrane)
(Thanks Alan Bell)
Capricon One
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Might be the only way they’ll pull the mission off :)
This bloke sounds like a space cadet
Is he *still* going on about that? He’s been at every event since he sent in his application spilling the same hyperbole. Please send him to Mars, if I hear about his one-way trip and his saying goodbye to his mother one more time I think a small part of me will die. And please Dr. Joe, please shut up until you’re actually selected, I’ll sick of hearing about your hypothetical adventure.
Wait – he actually initially thought this mission would really happen at some point?!
Bahahahahahaha!
he’s only copped on to this now?