One Kiwi dad is still in the running to be one of the selected people to live on Mars. .
Iranian-born Saeed Ghandhari is among 100 people who have been selected from 200,000 other applicants. The prize is a one-way trip to Mars.
Ghandhari, 35 – who works in a contact centre by day and a halal butchery in Auckland by night – is now trying to get into the final group of 40 people selected for the training phase of the project.
He has just been told he will next year join a 10-strong group of international hopefuls who will compete for a final spot on the journey.
The Mars One project is a crowd-funded venture conceived by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp. It aims to create the most spectacular reality TV show ever by putting a human colony on Mars in 10 years’ time.
The next selection round will focus on choosing teams which could withstand the hardships of a permanent settlement on Mars.
Once the pool of 40 final candidates is selected they will undergo a training in special isolation chambers. If they pass that test, they will then be given a comprehensive, knowledge-based interview.
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Oh goodness!
weird!!!
wow that sound awsome man then we can not have earth so packed with pepole in a few genarations!
crazy weird all right
O.M.G! This means BIG! A person aiming to live on Mars? That’s crazy! I mean, why would someone live on mars, when they take AGES to get back to earth to tell people what it was like!
why would a kiwi dad do that!?!?!?!
Why would a Father do that, He has a Family!
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I don’t think he should be doing this because he is leaving his kids to grow up with no dad.