I would say that considering someone flaky is not a compliment. I heard that one of the applicants to be in the MARS One crew was 80 years old.
I would consider this to be a flaky person - wacky, unconventional and off-beat. And it makes me wonder about the Mars One selecting team and what their criteria were. There is an extensive list of requirements - with categories resiliency, adaptability, curiosity, ability to trust, creativity/ resourcefulness , and then age (18 or older), medical and physical requirements, country of origin and language.
From Round One: Among the people that were selected to move on to round two, 159 have a master's degree, 347 have bachelor's degrees and 29 have Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degrees. The majority of the applicants are under 36 and well educated.
Round Two: Medically cleared candidates were interviewed, and 50 men and 50 women of the total pool of 660 from around the world were selected to move on. Applicants are mostly from the U.S. The youngest is a 20-year-old and the oldest is 61.
Round Three: The company had intended to have a reality television show documenting group challenges, but no TV deal has been reached. The audience was to select one winner per region, and experts select additional participants. 40 people will be selected.
Round Four: This is the isolation test - the forty candidates will spend nine days in an isolation unit. (that's 9 days vs 7 months it will take to reach Mars). Thirty will be selected.
Round Five: This is the Mars Settler Suitability Interview. Supposedly to last 4 hours, to measure suitability for long-duration space missions and Mars settlement. Twenty-four candidates would be selected.
Then we move on to the section in the Wikipedia article on BankruptcyHERE. The company was permanently dissolved in January 2019 with a total debt of $1 million Euros.
Back to flaky - here's what German former astronaut Ulrich Walter had to say in January 2014, He estimated the probability of reaching Mars alive at only 30%, and that of surviving there more than three months at less than 20%. He said, "They don't care what happens to those people in space... If my tax money were used for such a mission, I would organize a protest."
Two pictures today - one that we will never see on Mars, but can see at a model railroad show. And then Brian's favourite new seedling that won in the Lily Show this summer.
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