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An ambitious project to establish a human colony on Mars has attracted applications from tens of thousands of would-be astronauts, just two weeks after applications opened. 一项雄心勃勃的火星人类殖民计划在开放申请短短两周之内就吸引了成千上万名宇航员志愿者。 The mission, a private venture by the Dutch non-profit organization Mars One, aims to send a crew to the Red Planet in 2022 – and, due to the physiological change in the human body after a stay on Mars, there’d be no coming back. That hasn’t deterred people, though: so far, over 200,000 people have applied to become one of Mars’ first immigrants. “This is turning out to be the most desired job in history,” says Bas Lansdorp, co-founder of Mars One. 该计划由荷兰非盈利组织火星一号发起，目标在2022年向火星遣送一批人员。由于停留在火星上会使人体出现一些生理上的变化，这批人员预计不会再返回地球，而这并没有阻止人们。迄今为止，已有超过20万人报名首批移民火星。火星一号联合创始人巴斯·兰斯卓普称，“这将成为历史上最令人钦羡的工作。” Day-to-day life on Mars will be no picnic: The organization says that the daily routine on the planet would involve construction work on the colony (installing greenhouses, for example), maintenance of the settlement’s systems and research into Mars’ climate and geological history–all in an inhospitable environment with unbreathable air and an average temperature in the planet’s mid-latitudes of around -58 degrees Farenheit. | 
