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From MSNBC's Cosmic Log:<br /><br /><center><blockquote><p align="left"><font color="orange">Would you chip in a million dollars to have someone go on a one-way trip to Mars? How about $100,000, or $10,000? It may sound like the ultimate revenge, but X Prize founder Peter Diamandis is floating the idea as a privately funded way to start settling the Red Planet.<br /><br />The idea of one-way Martian settlement missions, with no provision made for returning to Earth, has been seriously kicked around for a couple of years, with Australian scientist-philosopher Paul Davies among the high-profile proponents. Davies and others say that making the trip one-way would make the journey affordable — and that plenty of people would be willing to take the ultimate risk to push the frontier forward.</font>/p></p></blockquote></center><br /><br />A one-way trip to Mars is an idea that has been kicked around before here at Uplink, but this proposal takes a different twist.<br /><br />Included in the log entry is a link to a poll. Interestingly, over two-thirds of respondents indicate they would go to Mars to stay. <br /><br />Personally, my bags are packed. Anybody got a spare $1M to sponsor me? <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>