THE PEOPLE WE SHOULD SEND TO MARS

Researchers have revealed the best traits for the first human settlers on Mars. Social scientists at George Mason University looked what they determined to be the four broad personality types – neurotic, reactive, social, and agreeable – and ran five simulations to see which would fare best on Mars. The people most likely to last are – it’s a shocker, you’d better sit down – people with an “agreeable” personality type.
* Canadians?
* Wow, Bob Ross would have been PERFECT. Sad!
* See, I was gonna guess the best people to send to Mars would be the casts of all the Real Housewives shows.
* Uhhhh … are you really gonna spend billions of dollars to colonize Mars and pick who goes by their ATTITUDE?
The researchers also found the optimum number of people required to start building civilization on another planet. They determined that just 22 people would do the job.
* Of both sexes, right? They need to be more specific or it’s not going to work.
* So, the entire population of Mars would come from just 22 people. Like Arkansas.