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b'You love to travel. But would you if doing so meant never coming home? The private company Mars One says it will land humans on the Red Planet by 2026, but is only offering passengers one-way tickets. Hundreds of thousands of people volunteered to go.\\nMeet a young woman who made the short list, and hear why she\\u2019s ready to be Mars-bound. Also, why microbes could be hiding in water trapped in the planet\\u2019s rocks. And, how a wetter, better Mars lost its atmosphere and became a dry and forbidding place.\\nPlus, why Kim Stanley Robinson, author of a famous trilogy about colonizing and terraforming Mars, thinks that the current timeline for going to the planet is unrealistic.\\nGuests:\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Laurel Kaye \\u2013 A senior in the physics department at Duke University\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Alfonso Davila \\u2013 Senior scientist at the SETI Institute\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Stephen Brecht \\u2013 Physicist and president of the Bay Area Research Group\\n\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Kim Stanley Robinson \\u2013 Hugo Award-winning science Fiction author of the Mars trilogy: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy), Green Mars (Mars Trilogy), Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'