Mars One Is a “Money Grab” Where Everyone Loses
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Re: Mars One Is a “Money Grab” Where Everyone Loses
#2Even the Chinese government called Mars One to be a scam [1], and advised their citizens to avoid the organization.
So when you've got China calling you out to be a fraud, then you must definitely be doing something wrong, in order for them to bother issuing a public statement like that.
[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/24/chinese_papers_bran...
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#3Funny enough, when Mars One launched I happened to be at a conference that was sharing a venue with another conference on Mars planetology. It was great because of all the conversations it allowed us to start. However, I think about half the scientists I talked to agreed with my assessment that it was either a 2012-era social media pipe dream (e.g. Kony) or a scam.
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#4Even the Chinese government called Mars One to be a scam [1], and advised their citizens to avoid the organization. So when you've got China calling you out to be a fraud, then you must definitely be doing something wrong, in order for them to bother issuing a public statement like that. [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/24/chinese_papers_bran...
What sense does that make?
Or, China could feel threatened by the project because they want to get to Mars first?
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#5Is it even still a thing?
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#6They are as likely to go to Mars as Elon musk so at least they are in rare company
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#7I mean, pay to apply? Any company serious about this effort knows they should be chasing the handful of people mentally and physically capable of surviving timhis endeavor, not the other way around.
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#8MarsOne definitely introduced the concept of colonizing Mars to a wider audience. For that, I think, they get far less credit than they deserve.
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#9Mars One is like the Fire festival of space
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#10They are as likely to go to Mars as Elon musk so at least they are in rare company
I will be willing to bet that by 2040 SpaceX significantly helps send people to Mars, either by launching the people to orbit, launching a lot of the supplies (at least 40% by mass), building the Mars lander that lands people there, or even the whole-hog BFR/ITS architecture as Musk presented here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo78R_yYFA
Willing to bet a $beverage?
SpaceX has the largest (by payload) current launch vehicle in the world, and pioneered supersonic retropropulsion for landing (a critical technology for human-scale Mars landers) which they use to reduce the cost of space launch with most flights. They're the only US company that does regular orbital capsule flights (including reentry and recovery), and they're one of two US companies that will be flying people to orbit within about a year. Their Falcon 9, also one of the largest rockets in the world, launched more often to orbit than any other rocket (of any size) in the world last year. They're also currently building a reusable upper stage (which is also a human-scale Mars lander) for an even larger launch vehicle. If anybody is going to be landing people on Mars within the next couple decades, they'll most likely be at least substantially helped by SpaceX.