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Mars (One) Needs Payloads

Posted by timothy on from the ok-but-nothing-too-heavy dept.

mbone (558574) writes Mars One has announced that their first, unmanned, lander, targeted for 2018, needs payloads. Along with their 4 experiments, and a University experiment, they have two payloads for hire: "Mars One offers two payload opportunities for paying mission contributors. Proposals can take the form of scientific experiments, technology demonstrations, marketing and publicity campaigns, or any other suggested payload. 'Previously, the only payloads that have landed on Mars are those which NASA has selected,' said Bas Lansdorp, 'We want to open up the opportunity to the entire world to participate in our mission to Mars by sending a certain payload to the surface of Mars.'" The formal Request for Proposals for all of this is out now as well.

6 of 77 comments (clear)

  1. Re:just... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Your post is fertilizer.

  2. Payloads to send to Mars? by cold+fjord · · Score: 3, Funny

    'We want to open up the opportunity to the entire world to participate in our mission to Mars by sending a certain payload to the surface of Mars.'"

    Justin Bieber? Miley Cyrus?

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    1. Re:Payloads to send to Mars? by cold+fjord · · Score: 3, Funny

      If it did start a war it would almost certainly be short. I'm inclined to believe that Martians would immediately surrender under a bombardment like that.

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      much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
  3. Take my wife... by nytes · · Score: 1, Funny

    please

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  4. I want to send a carved rock by the_Bionic_lemming · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I had the money to buy the mission, I'd send a carved rock to be deployed that would indicate that either John Carter or I owned Mars, and that we would have to sword fight for ownership.

    My guess is that John Carter never made it to Mars, but if he did and and If I had to I could arrange a meeting place and nuke the entire site from orbit. Itâ(TM)s the only way to be sure. Cause I suck at sword fighting.

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  5. Re:A DNA Payload by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    of my semen!

    it's already on Uranus

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