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    PROVO — Eight Utahns are among 1,058 finalists who are vying for a spot on a mission to colonize Mars. They were recently whittled down from just over 200,000 applicants from all over the world.

    Kitty Kane, a hairdresser from Provo, is one of the candidates and she said she knows she will have to leave her life behind. However, if selected, she said she would take a one-way trip to the red planet.

    "There's a lot of good you can do, going to space for humanity," Kane said. "I didn't ever think that a regular civilian could be the first person to go to Mars, but that's what's happening."

    The venture, organized by Mars One, is backed by several aerospace companies including SpaceX and Lockheed Martin. It's privately funded, and its creators hope to garner donations from the public through their website, and ultimately by creating a reality show type program where people will be able to vote for their favorite candidates.

    "I thought it was a brilliant plan," said Cody Reeder, a Physics major at Westminster College. "Shows like American Idol on television, make billions of dollars. That would be enough to send someone to Mars."

    The never-to-return commitment is harder for some than others. Ken Sullivan of Farmington has a family of four children.

    "My wife made sure I got a couple million dollars worth of life insurance before I signed up," Sullivan said, smiling. "My wife and I have discussed this as well, and it is very difficult, the whole process of leaving and never coming back."

    While most of his kids will be in college by the time a manned spacecraft is set to launch in 2022, he said his fascination with space is hard for them to understand too.

    "My one daughter doesn't want me to go at all," Sullivan said.


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    May we raise children who love the unloved things - the dandelion, the worm, the spiderlings.
    Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards the sun...
    And when they're grown and someone has to speak for those who have no voice,
    may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the one.

  • #2
    Originally posted by Michele View Post
    Kitty Kane, a hairdresser
    No kidding. Never would have guessed that.

    Originally posted by Michele View Post
    from Provo, is one of the candidates and she said she knows she will have to leave her life behind. However, if selected, she said she would take a one-way trip to the red planet.

    "There's a lot of good you can do, going to space for humanity," Kane said. "I didn't ever think that a regular civilian could be the first person to go to Mars, but that's what's happening."
    Douglas Adams was incredibly prescient. There's already a whole chapter in Life, the Universe, and Everything dedicated to this woman.

    I wonder if the folks at SpaceX have already made plans for a bathtub in the ship to Mars....
    It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
    In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
    Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
    Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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    • #3
      I think this is wonderful. They will all probably die in various hideous ways but other people will go and even more after that. It's the only way.

      Personally, I couldn't do it. I adore sci fi and have thought about this kind of thing but I would go instantly insane if I was removed from the natural world (my own world, I mean). No birds? No flowers? No animals? I just couldn't do it.

      Good for them, though.
      "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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      • #4
        I had no idea they were called Utahns.
        Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
        Robert Southwell, S.J.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
          I had no idea they were called Utahns.
          How the hell do you pronounce that? Does it rhyme with Tah tah's
          If it pays, it stays

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Frostbit View Post
            How the hell do you pronounce that? Does it rhyme with Tah tah's
            YOU-tawns is how you pronounce it. It's no dumber than "Coloradans". We were "Coloradoans" for well over 100 years until the Denver Post and the State government decided to change it.

            The entire episode is still so embarrassing that we will put up with almost any other sentence construction to avoid saying it in real life.
            "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
              YOU-tawns is how you pronounce it. It's no dumber than "Coloradans". We were "Coloradoans" for well over 100 years until the Denver Post and the State government decided to change it.

              The entire episode is still so embarrassing that we will put up with almost any other sentence construction to avoid saying it in real life.
              I'm proud to be a Tennesseen.
              It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
              In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
              Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
              Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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              • #8
                Easy to be Alaskan, most foreigners think we're Canadian.
                If it pays, it stays

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                • #9
                  Cue the Beach Boys....
                  "Since the historic ruling, the Lovings have become icons for equality. Mildred released a statement on the 40th anniversary of the ruling in 2007: 'I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, Black or white, young or old, gay or straight, seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.'." - Mildred Loving (Loving v. Virginia)

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
                    YOU-tawns is how you pronounce it. It's no dumber than "Coloradans". We were "Coloradoans" for well over 100 years until the Denver Post and the State government decided to change it.

                    The entire episode is still so embarrassing that we will put up with almost any other sentence construction to avoid saying it in real life.
                    After a couple of years of legal weed, you'll be Coloradudes.
                    Enjoy.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Norm dePlume View Post
                      After a couple of years of legal weed, you'll be Coloradudes.
                      "Dude" is already the standard term out here. It's particularly fetching when women apply it to other women.
                      "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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