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comment by NikolaiFyodorov

I signed up for Mars One when it was first announced. I knew the proposal was very, very unlikely (really: I'm not a fool), but I thought that even with a 0.1% chance of success, the potential payoff was worth it.

Then I received an email from Mars One advising me that an ~$80 registration fee was required in order for me to proceed to "the next round". I lost interest then.