Jersey City Resident Is Finalist for Permanent Trip to Mars

[brooklynite]

WNBC:

When Cassandra Morphy travels to work from her home in Jersey City to her office in Keasby, it's a 23-mile, 30-minute commute -- but if she gets her dream job, her commute from work to her new home will take her 225 million miles and eight months to complete.

Morphy, a data analyst, is one of 100 finalists out of 200,000 applicants in the running for a trip to colonize Mars, sponsored by Dutch non-profit group Mars One.

Mars One plans to send 24 astronauts to Mars starting in the year 2025. In extremely harsh conditions, the astronauts would build a permanent settlement.

The big drawback: it's a one-way ticket to Mars, and there's no way to ever leave.

I can think of someone else from NJ, but I don't think they'd achieve liftoff...

[Coventina]

1. Ha!

[JHB]

2. I'd like the Mars settlement to actually work...

...and you candidate mainly has a capacity to block useful things.

[Xipe Totec]

3. The Jersey Barrier could be used for fuel, food, and hot air. nt

[FSogol]

4. He'd be more useful as ballast.

[Atman]

5. "Looks like we're gonna need a bigger space ship."

They couldn't get that other NJ resident off the ground.