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Mars One Studying How To Maintain Communications With Mars 24/7

Posted by timothy on from the oh-such-unmitigated-cheek dept.

braindrainbahrain writes "Mars One, the low-credibility effort to colonize Mars, is at least funding some interesting concept studies for their alleged plan to colonize the red planet. One of the most interesting is the effort to maintain uninterrupted communications with Mars. This is not as trivial as it may sound, as any satellite in Martian orbit will still have to deal with occultations between Mars and Earth due to the Sun. Surrey Satellite Technology will be performing the study."

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  1. idiocracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can anyone think of a more credible or likely way to fund a trip to mars? It's not public funding..if putting fucking honey boo boo on Mars it's what gets the effort funded I'm ok with that. How else do you get the citizens of idiocracy to fund the effort?

  2. Re:idiocranial projection by 50000BTU_barbecue · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The only difference is Kennedy could commit ~1% of the GDP of the most powerful nation (at the time) for ten years. Mars One has Kickstarter.

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