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MIT Study Finds Fault With Mars One Colony Concept

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-mars-for-you dept.

MarkWhittington writes The Mars One project created a great deal of fanfare when it was first announced in 2012. The project, based in Holland, aspires to build a colony on Mars with the first uncrewed flight taking place in 2018 and the first colonists setting forth around 2024. The idea is that the colonists would go to Mars to stay, slowly building up the colony in four-person increments every 26-month launch window. However, Space Policy Online on Tuesday reported that an independent study conducted by MIT has poured cold water on the Mars colony idea. The MIT team consisting of engineering students had to make a number of assumptions based on public sources since the Mars One concept lacks a great many technical details. The study made the bottom line conclusion that the Mars One project is overly optimistic at best and unworkable at worst. The concept is "unsustainable" given the current state of technology and the aggressive schedule that the Mars One project has presented.

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  1. Not just MIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anyone with at least two connected neurons... which excludes Space Nutters. They've already packed their suitcases and are sweating and yelling about the "species" (who is that? Other middle aged white sci-fi nerds?) and the Death Asteroid.

    1. Re:Not just MIT by gcnaddict · · Score: 3, Funny

      He's delivered more than you. :)

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  2. Re:"Finds Fault" is faulty reporting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mars One was the furthest thing from science as possible. It was a religious event.

  3. Re:S[pace colonisation by Rei · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thetproblemrwithespaceacolonizationdisiyoutcan'

    There's much better ways to colonize the written word than spaces. Try page margins, there's lots of room and they don't interfere as much with legibility.

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  4. Re:S[pace colonisation by ray-auch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try page margins, there's lots of room and they don't interfere as much with legibility.

    Tried that, I had a great proof of this colonization concept, but this margin was too small to contain it...