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Being trapped inside a small Mars habitat for months if not years at a time won't be the faint of heart. It's a journey that will require cool minds, quick wits, and plenty of technological know-how.<\/p>\n
In a wacky take on the concept, Fox announced that it's pitting a unusual mix of 12 celebrities including disgraced Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and \"Modern Family\" actor Ariel Winter against each other during a simulated stay in a Martian colony for an upcoming reality TV show.<\/p>\n
While it might sound like a vacuous reality TV distraction, it could still turn out to be an intriguing glimpse into a future in which spacefarers have to learn to live within tight quarters on the surface of a largely inhospitable planet.We'll probably be tuning in even if it's just so you don't have to.<\/p>\n
The show, set to premiere next month, will be hosted by none other than \"Star Trek\" legend and depressed space tourist William Shatner.<\/p>\n
\"Thanks to lower gravity on Mars, youll weigh 62 percent less,\" Shatner quipped during a promo video. \"Bad news: the air is unbreathable, so if youre from LA, itll remind you of home.\"<\/p>\n
The guest list is a bizarre mashup of VIPs, from UFC champion Ronda Rousey and \"Real Housewives of Atlanta\" reality star Porsha Williams Guobadia to actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who you might remember as McLovin' from the comedy \"Superbad.\"<\/p>\n
The show will vaguely mimic a NASA analog mission, with contestants living and working inside a mockup of a Martian colony, though it's unclear for how long.<\/p>\n
They will also compete with each other during several challenges set by Shatner and vote each other off of the show \"send them back to Earth\" until a single \"space invader\" is left standing, according to a press release.<\/p>\n
Whether the show will be an accurate depiction of what it will actually be like to live on the Red Planet remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
But given the show's competitive nature, it's probably best if it isn't.<\/p>\n
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