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Elsewhere on the website, they discuss a few reasons why they think they are more likely to complete their mission than others who have attempted. Sadly, a couple of their points seem a bit iffy: - Simple rovers – Through the use of relatively simple rovers, designed to conduct basic settlement construction prior to human astronaut arrival, saving both time and cost. I'm not a professional aerospace engineer, but con…
Elsewhere on the website, they discuss a few reasons why they think they are more likely to complete their mission than others who have attempted. Sadly, a couple of their points seem a bit iffy: - Simple rovers – Through the use of relatively simple rovers, designed to conduct basic settlement construction prior to human astronaut arrival, saving both time and cost. I'm not a professional aerospace engineer, but con…
By their settlement date, a falcon heavy or a variant of it, should be ready.
This feels like one of the most "in your face" scams I've seen in awhile. The first thing I wanted to find out when I visited the site is where they got their funding - of course that section is absent from the site. The second thing I looked up is how they expected to get there and how they were solving the engineering challenges involved. On the technology page I found a dumbed down list of the different modules in…
Common, don't be so cynical.
This feels like one of the most "in your face" scams I've seen in awhile. The first thing I wanted to find out when I visited the site is where they got their funding - of course that section is absent from the site. The second thing I looked up is how they expected to get there and how they were solving the engineering challenges involved. On the technology page I found a dumbed down list of the different modules in…
A modest processing fee isn't unreasonable. It ensures only those who are truly serious apply, and the money would help cover the many costs of this campaign. Common, don't be so cynical.
490 people times $38 application fee. $18620 collected thus far. Maybe someone could start a site to send people to the sun? I'm sure it would work if they went at night.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/more-than-20000-peopl...
I think taking application fees even when they are at least 10 years away from their goal is absurd and probably unethical, but it looks like their team has a sincere desire to make the mission happen. Its threads like this that make me wish HN was not so cynical.
"go to mars"