Sick of Earth? You're not alone. 9% of Britons say they’d move to Mars – and never come back
A new YouGov poll shows nearly one in ten (9%) Britons would take a one-way trip to the Red Planet with 'Mars One', a Dutch organisation which wants to build a community of settlers on Mars and film the whole project for a Reality TV-style programme.
Using 2011 census data from the Office for National Statistics as a guide, that works out to more than four million British adults who would say yes to a one-way mission to Mars.
The survey also reveals that twice as many men (12%) as women (6%) would be up for the lifelong trip.
However, British men are not alone in their greater readiness to leave the planet. A 2010 survey for YouGov US found that 43% of men across the Atlantic would “definitely” take a free trip to outer space, compared to 21% of American women.
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