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Private Mars Mission Planned For 2009
Enkidu writes "Spiegel and other German media are reporting that a complete private Mars mission (automated translation) is planned for 2009. Organizations behind are AMSAT and Mars Society Germany."
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Wouldn't that be hilarious of the Martians "plans a research flight up to the year 2009 to" Earth.
I'll send some lucky volunteer in 2008, if you all send me enough money to pack a tube full of dynamite.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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I am surprised that a company like Boeing has not attempted to break into the privatized space arena.
Boeing doesn't have the technology or motive to travel to Mars yet. I think we'll see Union Aerospace Corporation really go all out on this and try to establish a Mars base by 2145. The UAC has the mining and space technology to outdo easily any other space ventures.
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Goatse has funded several probes to Uranus.
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Maybe they plan to use the shuttle form the Bahrain deseret.
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Private Mars Mission isn't kinky in itself, but if you couple it with the two subheadings in the article:
500 Kilos heavy probe
and
Favorable Mars position
Suddeny, "Private" takes on a whole new meaning...
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I imagine the sub-etha communication system will be provided by WorldCom and the fusion propulsion unit by Enron. Once it launches and hasn't been heard from for a while, Arthur Andersen will certify that the craft did, in fact, land on Mars as projected, steered there by the invisible hand.
A few quarters later, the taxpayer will bail out the investors.
Is the fact that the company formed for the mission is named The Union Aerospace Corporation.
Are they asking for volunteers yet?
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
They're outsourcing most of the work to martians to save on costs.
Just how stupid does an announcement have to be before working journalists decide not to report it? A private mission to Mars by 2009?
Okay fine, in that same spirit:
"Dear Speigel:
I plan to evolve into a being composed entirely of ionized gas and electromagnetic energy by 2009. I realize this is an ambitious timeframe, but with recent advances in genetic engineering and non-CFC spray bottle technology I believe it's achievable.
Please call me if you have any questions, or I'll be happy to seep into your offices in five years."
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You know what sucks? Seeing this headline and reading "Planned" as "Manned". I was getting all excited.
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Can it faggot, we need to go to Mars so folks who actually have jobs can have breathing room with the looming population crisis.
Sending all those endangered animals, poor and starving people along with political prisoners to Venus is only going to work for so long. We might as well abandon them on the decaying husk which is our homeworld.
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"Considering SpaceShipOne rings in at around $20 mil US, and most people would say that they operate pretty efficiently and without any ridiculous overhead, I'd hate to see what 10 mil euros will buy when it comes to building a Mars ship."
By then, 10 million euros will buy you 100 million us dollars, so they could just use cheap american labor and materials.
"My prediction: If any private company gets within sniffing distance of sending people to Mars, the environmentalists and scientists will go hand-in-hand screaming about contaminating the native environment."
Then we'll just have to grind up the "environmentalists" for martian fertilizer.