30-year-old IP engineer Barry Peter is just one of 100,000 people who have applied for a one-way trip to Mars in 2022. 

The self-proclaimed gadget-geek says "it would be amazing to be one of the first people to populate the first off-world colony of human kind". 

Peter says he's the perfect candidate because he's healthy and has no ties keeping him on Earth:

Private space company Mars One plans to build a colony on the red planet and will start by moving four people there a decade from now on a mission costing €4.5 billion.

The Dutch-owned company claims the plan is realistic because all the technology they need is readily available to buy from private space companies. 

The chosen astronauts will undergo eight years of intensive training in which they will learn how to repair habitat structures, grow vegetables in confined spaces and to deal with basic and serious medical issues from dental upkeep to bone fractures. 

The astronauts will live out the rest of their lives in metal structures

The trip will be partly funded by media coverage; Mars One intends to produce "an ongoing, global media event, from astronaut selection to training, from liftoff to landing".

40 hopefuls will be chosen this year, mainly based on their psychological skills. From those, four will be chosen to begin training and will leave Earth for Mars on an eight month flight in September 2022. New crews will follow every two years thereafter. 

The catch is that nobody who departs will be able to return home. If you can get over that little niggler, you can still apply; you just need to be over 18 and willing to pay a surprisingly miniscule €25 application fee.