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    Default Mars One announcement.

    It seems it's getting serious.

    Quote On Tuesday the 10th of December Mars One will announce at a press conference in Washington DC that we contracted Lockheed Martin and SSTL for our first unmanned mission to Mars.
    http://www.mars-one.com/en/11-news/516-countdown
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    Very interesting!
    Especially with NASA asking for a whooping 1.5 billion a year to fund their lacklustre efforts...

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    Default Re: Mars One announcement.

    People also donate their bodies (after they die) for scientific research. This project follows the same logic, I find.

    And with the Mars list growing, it seems like a good opportunity to solve the population problem.

    These are just observations. I still need to think about my opinion a little more.

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    anything Nasa does should be farmed out to the most efficient private company , could save us a ton of dollars ... there was or is a company that put a man in space for way cheaper than Nasa does it ...
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    Default Re: Mars One announcement.

    Quote Posted by ghostrider (here)
    anything Nasa does should be farmed out to the most efficient private company , could save us a ton of dollars ... there was or is a company that put a man in space for way cheaper than Nasa does it ...
    The fact is that the NASA budget is relatively minuscule, the public perception of the budget has always been much bigger than it really is. NASA's overall budget for 2012 was less than one half of one percent (.48%) of the overall budget. The budget in dollars for 2012 was $17.7 billion. The cost of giving Americans mobile phones for the year 2012 was $2.2 Billion. The cost of fraud in medicare is estimated to be $60 Billion a year, this is not the cost of the program this is just how much money is being stolen each year from the program. This does not even take into account fraud and theft from medicaid or social security.

    So my point is instead of cutting the NASA budget we should triple or quadruple it and then move private industry in with NASA and have them kick in an equal amount. There is no reason for the government to have complete control of the space program, it should be collaboration with industry.

    This is probably true of all government programs, they should be a hybrid of government and corporations. Government could provide seed money and oversight while corporations should put up the vast majority of the capitol. After all it is corporations that benefit from these programs so they should be involved from day one and be held accountable.

    Even if the NASA budget were eliminated altogether in 2014 it would hardly make a difference to most Americans, but it would eliminate one of the only government programs that has spawned jobs and even entire industries.

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    Default Re: Mars One announcement.

    Quote Posted by GNC Harteveld (here)
    It seems it's getting serious.

    Quote On Tuesday the 10th of December Mars One will announce at a press conference in Washington DC that we contracted Lockheed Martin and SSTL for our first unmanned mission to Mars.
    http://www.mars-one.com/en/11-news/516-countdown
    I think they should rename NASA to Pinocchio and use this for their logo.




    Unless there is a major shift in honesty, we here on Earth will never see the real images of Mars.

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    Default Re: Mars One announcement.

    Quote So my point is instead of cutting the NASA budget we should triple or quadruple it and then move private industry in with NASA and have them kick in an equal amount. There is no reason for the government to have complete control of the space program, it should be collaboration with industry.
    Only if they stop lying and hiding things from us which they won't do.... But hey, aren't they privately owned?

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    I think they should build a space ship under the grounds of nasa and fill it with all the leaders of the world and send it on it's merry way, one way trip.
    Then the rest of us can figure out a way to feed the starving millions and help nurture the under privileged countries once and for all.
    Too much money is wasted out in space when it is needed more here, first...
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    remember the picture that those who worked on the satelite that went to saturn ??? they turned the camera back at earth and snapped a photo of them standing outside their workplace , crystal clear picture ...turn it towards saturn and we get pixels out of focus , they hide what they don't want us to see for sure ... If only they could let the truth take where it takes us , replace control with freedom ... imagine what we could learn in a day ... Nasa has been a huge smokescreen ... I remember Brian O'leary on dvd talking about the trees on mars , the forest , the water , the glass tube tunnels ... then one day he gets cancer and is gone ???
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    Someone needs to invent open source industry for this ****. Then all the countries can work together and actually get some **** done instead of wasting all OUR money hiding stupid, mostly irrelevant secrets, and competing in the area of discovery when we could be growing up like adults and getting some serious work done with the dollars available.

    Remember every dollar the US, or Canadian, or UK or whatever government has to spend is YOUR money. First we let corrupt institutions take our money, then we let them waste, squander, and abuse us with it.

    Maybe if we can get this fixed we could have a say in how much we think we should be spending on Earth and space exploration, vs say the billions of OUR dollars that are used to kill people with and/or find better ways to kill people with, time for us top realize we are complicit, and change what happens to our tax dollars. Stop voting conservative or liberal -- just stop it.

    Our current version of space exploration is just a sick joke really.
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    Default Re: Mars One announcement.

    Press conference is starting now:
    http://www.mars-one.com/en/11-news/516-countdown

    Well, seen it, sounds like a scam.
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