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With a projected settlement date of 2025, the Mars One project has received over 200,000 applications for the one way trip to the Red Planet. But creating a living, sustainable community on the distant planet for the select inhabitants will require not only unique technological and engineering solutions, but also novel architectural systems. Bryan Versteeg is a conceptual designer who’s been working with the Mars One team in anticipation of the planet’s eventual colonization.
Hi Mars One supporter,
Mars One has recently launched a simulation project to replicate the future Mars human outpost here on Earth. The main purpose of an early version outpost is for potential crew members to gain early experience in the actual environment which will become their home on Mars.
Bas Lansdorp, co-founder: “We are very eager to get started constructing actual hardware for our mission that is important for training future Mars One crews and preparing them for their life on Mars. We are going from theory to practice.”
Newly added team member Kristian von Bengtson will be leading the outpost project from Denmark. He will also be leading the search for potential construction companies and major sponsors who would like the be a part of this outpost project.
Vegetables on Mars?
Plant ecologist Wieger Wamelink from Wageningen University (NL) tested the growth of 14 plants on artificial Mars soil. His colleague and Mars One adviser Leo Marcelis, is looking into cultivation systems that should make growing vegetables on Mars possible: "As it is impossible to take everything from Earth, we will need to produce food if we want to go into space. This requires knowledge on cultivation systems that function well in Mars conditions." Read more here.
originally posted by: Indigent
I remember a topic with that suit not related at all to mars one, makes me wonder if they are picking thigs over the net and claiming their own.
Was not supouse to be covert in dirt to protect from radiation too?
The off world pilots who fly them could answer your questions.
originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: JadeStar
Isn't it strange, all this talk about making Mars a residence and absolutely nothing in the works to get us there...supposedly. On the more immediate and practical side, shouldn't they be talking about what was going to happen to the aging ISS?
Oh, that's right, it is scheduled for de-commissioning in the near future. But why...?
Something just doesn't seem right with some of these plans we are told about.
You suppose that we aren't quite told the truth about space capabilities? I mean, we have been promised to go back to the Moon too. But how? What rocket, what preparations are being made? Harvest H3, yes, but how? There is talk about mining asteroids, again, where are the freighter ships that will do those jobs of hauling people, tons and tons of material and supplies to this far-flung places when rockets are so terribly expensive and inefficient?
RP2SticksOfDynamite
You dont retire you BMW unless you already have a Ferrari!!!!!
originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: JadeStar
Isn't it strange, all this talk about making Mars a residence and absolutely nothing in the works to get us there...supposedly.
On the more immediate and practical side, shouldn't they be talking about what was going to happen to the aging ISS?
Oh, that's right, it is scheduled for de-commissioning in the near future. But why...?
originally posted by: RP2SticksOfDynamite
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You dont retire you BMW unless you already have a Ferrari!!!!!
originally posted by: RP2SticksOfDynamite
The off world pilots who fly them could answer your questions.
originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: JadeStar
Isn't it strange, all this talk about making Mars a residence and absolutely nothing in the works to get us there...supposedly. On the more immediate and practical side, shouldn't they be talking about what was going to happen to the aging ISS?
Oh, that's right, it is scheduled for de-commissioning in the near future. But why...?
Something just doesn't seem right with some of these plans we are told about.
You suppose that we aren't quite told the truth about space capabilities? I mean, we have been promised to go back to the Moon too. But how? What rocket, what preparations are being made? Harvest H3, yes, but how? There is talk about mining asteroids, again, where are the freighter ships that will do those jobs of hauling people, tons and tons of material and supplies to this far-flung places when rockets are so terribly expensive and inefficient?
The US retired its Shuttles because they have better craft.
You dont retire you BMW unless you already have a Ferrari!!!!!
originally posted by: snypwsd
a reply to: JadeStar
I love that Canadian Flag in the first picture. I cant wait till the actual mission is launched.
originally posted by: JadeStar
Not quite the 'tiny tin can' misconception that a lot of people have had of them...
originally posted by: boohoo
originally posted by: JadeStar
Not quite the 'tiny tin can' misconception that a lot of people have had of them...
Its not a misconception, the project is being funded by a TV revenue business model. It will be as "tin can like" as the production budget permits.
High viewership with corresponding ad revenue, bigger space built over time to live in
Moderate but acceptable viewership, small original-build tin can to live in
Low viewership and cancelled show, no reliable ongoing resupply, followed by slow death
This is simple, US style, capitalism 101
Here is the old thread for everyone's reference:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
originally posted by: JadeStar
While the reality TV aspect is one which garners a lot of attention, there are other sources of revenue or resources for the project.
As was mentioned, sponsorship for the first human mission to Mars is expected to be huge. Couple that with companies like Lockheed donating equipment and I think the colony would remain sustainable whether or not the TV show is successful.
The TV show is just the public outreach fundraising arm of this. Make no mistake, Mars One if it is successful will not be solely dependant upon ad revenue from the show.
originally posted by: boohoo
originally posted by: JadeStar
While the reality TV aspect is one which garners a lot of attention, there are other sources of revenue or resources for the project.
As was mentioned, sponsorship for the first human mission to Mars is expected to be huge. Couple that with companies like Lockheed donating equipment and I think the colony would remain sustainable whether or not the TV show is successful.
The TV show is just the public outreach fundraising arm of this. Make no mistake, Mars One if it is successful will not be solely dependant upon ad revenue from the show.
Then how are all the "investors" and "venture capitalists" going to get their money back?
Does 4 humans going to Mars somehow generate revenue to pay back venture capital loans without a Reality TV deal?
originally posted by: JadeStar
Official Ink Pen of Mars One
Official Coffee of Mars One
Official Condom of Mars One....
You get the picture.
Absolutely. And it won't just be 4 people going to Mars. They'd just be the first 4. They'd be joined by another 4 every few years.
The idea is that a company would be tying their product, goods, services to not just a show or a space mission but a new branch of humanity on another world.
How valuable is that? Answer: very.
Look at sponsorship in sports for example. Interest in Mars One is likely to be greater than the World Cup in Brazil this summer and the World Cup generates HUGE amounts of money every four years, as do the Summer and Winter Olympics.
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: RP2SticksOfDynamite
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You dont retire you BMW unless you already have a Ferrari!!!!!
You do if it has a habit of blowing up randomly at any knock or bump and you don't have the funds to fix it.