ABSTRACT
On February 25, 2015 the Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore (Stewart) featured a conversation between actor Don Cheadle, space-colonizer volunteer Sonia Van Meter, comedian Ricky Velez, and actor/film producer/director Lee Daniels. The subject of their discussion was Mars One, an organization based in the Netherlands that is seeking to land the first humans on Mars. Show host Larry Wilmore announced that the plan of the private enterprise is to take volunteers to the red planet and leave them there, in order to establish a permanent human colony. What seemed most concerning, or perhaps most curious, for the discussants on the show was Van Meter’s willingness to leave her husband and children behind to take the one-way trip.
