Mars trip captures imaginations: Your Say

Mars One, a Dutch organization, has selected 100 finalists to be considered for a one-way trip to Mars. Four would take the initial trip slated for 2024. Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

This is fascinating. All of those chosen for this incredibly important project will one day be looked upon as heroes who blazed the trail to live on other planets.

— Todd Headlee

Actually, the real heroes are the nerds who are developing the artificial intelligence that might one day make living self-sufficiently in harsh environments possible.

— Daniel Mocsny

I love the idea of humankind exploring and setting up camp on Mars. But it's a one-way ticket, and that freaks me out.

These finalists are brave, and the ones selected are going to have the ultimate once-in-a-lifetime adventure.

— Simone Cromer

I bet that this will end up just being a big con game, with crowd funding, advertising revenue and a reality series.

It has fraud written all over it.

— Neil Moss

I'm very excited to see this for my own eyes. An event as big and important as this should make any human being proud.

— Chase Gomez

While this mission is not likely to happen as planned because so much will change in 10 to 20 years, it is a step. It will be followed by many more. Everything has to start somewhere.

— Mike Rowan