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Mars One Does Not Renew Contracts For Robotic Missions
braindrainbahrain writes Mars One is, of course, the highly speculative, low credibility project to land humans on Mars after a one-way trip. In 2013 they had announced that two contracts had been awarded to the aerospace industry to develop a Mars orbiter and a Mars lander to carry a science experiment payload to the surface. Both contracts have been completed, but so far, Mars One has no immediate plans to renew the contracts and pursue further development of the crafts.
No Mars Two!
The giant space goat is getting closer!
We could make this the B Ark.
This just in - Getting humans safely to the surface of Mars is way wicked hard and totally expensive.
When will the news media wake up to the fact that this is a scam and stop giving Mars Zero (zero because they have zero chance of actually going to Mars) free advertising?
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abandoned it's plans to build a vehicle and are now building a giant horeshoe magnet to pull the planet closer to earth so that they can board it with wooden planks ..
Why is Slashdot posting articles daily on this horrible fantasy and perpetuating the myth that is MarsOne?
They are supposed to have low credibility, but /. is doing a truly incredible job of giving them all the possible credibility they will ever need.
Please stop posting articles about shams. Next thing we know, we will start seeing articles on Green Coffee Bean and Dr. Oz and his "science" and all the other shams out there.
If the funders are really serious about creating a Reality TV experience about volunteers taking a one way trip to Mars then this is the only way they can do it at this time:
1. They will publicly do exactly what they have been doing so far, all the while screening the applicants for those most likely to buy in to what they are being told.
2. Once they have the final applicants sequestered and completely removed from the public and communication with the outside world they may or may not give hints to the public about what is really going to happen:
What will really happen:
The "Winners" will be totally isolated from communication with the public with the exception of very carefully screened media and family communications etc.
They will be constantly filmed documentary style, which they already expect.
After the Training "Season" and drama they will be boarded onto what is described to them as a top secret craft built by the Russians or whoever and carefully told that space travel technology is actually far advanced of what the public has been told and that they will be Pioneers in space exploration.
They will actually be entering an expensive yet economically viable simulated ship (ala Ascension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... where they will then spend a number of months "traveling" to Mars with cameras in every room.
After that season they will have a dramatic yet fright-filled arrival and landing at Mars. I assume at this point that they will pull a Capricorn One in some desert. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... ).
At some point, as each person dies for some reason, the truth will be revealed to each one and we will have the Drama of them having their 'Second Chance' at life.
-- If done successfully and done right I would actually watch this drama. So everyone, please, shush! Don't tell those final 100 anything!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
history lesson:
some time in the next few centuries, there will be an interplanetary exploration/ colonization pyramid scheme that will bankrupt millions of people, maybe even a nation or two
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
... but maybe they realized that American aero contractors like Boeing and Lockheed are only useful for government contracts where the incoming money stream is huge and the actual quantity and quality of output is ... not.
It is not something a government is going to do. That is why it is unlikely that humans are going to leave the earth local area for a while yet, at least on a government craft.
What we have to ask ourselves is there is value to actually being there. If there is value in actually learning to live in the harsh environment, to see what it is really like. We know that going to space is hard because no matter how carefully you try to work things out, there is always a gotcha you forget about. It is working out these problems in real time that teaches us how to cope and survive. This is true even in regular life, and some people fail, and die early. I clearly think there is a value to actually being there. I think that we do not have the technology to bring people back, so setting up a system where there is an even chance for some heroes to live out their lives and explore the planet would be good. If it is ok for someone to climb mount Everest even though several people die every year, but not to explore another planet? Mars One may be a scam. I don't think we are going to be able to explore other planets in person without higher risks than we have accepted thus far.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
OR pursue
Firstly, their claim on their website "While complex, the Mars One Mission is feasible. The science and technology required to place humans on Mars exists today. ", is provably false and it is reasonable to expect authors of this statement know this to be false. First thing that always comes to my mind is delivery configuration for soft land something closely resembling required tonnage on the surface, including the 4 meat bags they claim they are able to send. Simply put, no viable configuration currently exists. When you look at tonnage Apollo landed on the moon, vs what government space agencies have successfully landed on Mars so far, vs what NASA is currently developing, there is an enormously absurd leap of faith to say landing ppl on Mars is feasible with today's tech.
Secondly, a document like this : http://www.mars-one.com/images..., just stinks of handwaving with overuse of technical flourishes, fails to deal with funadmental issues, i.e. the weight issue, and seems to be created with an intent to deceive and create false assurance that mission profile is both well defined and accessible.
Accepting that proof of fraud is far from conclusive, the whole thing just reeks to high heaven of fraud.
That Mars One doesn't have a way to print money? Pity, that.
What am I missing? The contracts have been completed, so that should mean everything (from that perspective) is ready to go. Why would they renew such contracts?
Eventual failure should have been obvious from the beginning. No company with a hyphenated domain name is taking humans to Mars.
I thought they dropped the plans for a remake of "Capricorn One" back in 2010. Looks like they're back on the table again.
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