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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/mer-20070521.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070522/ap_ … rwHQ4PLBIF
Is that water still there? Maybe underground?
John Creighton wrote:
For instance monks and nuns deliberately choose a life of less. Are they crazy?Yes.
Maybe we should send monks or nuns to Mars.
1. Bankruptcy:
(a)Let them know from the beginning they'll have to renew their pledges every year to keep them "on the board."
What other reason can you give people to do so, other than "to see the mission happen"? Could you at least promise property rights on Mars, or maybe one place on your mission for a tourist astronaut, a la Space Adventures, to be awarded maybe by a lottery to those who gave you money? Great, but most will place more weight on stuff like a house, education for their children, health insurance than a vague promise of a mission to Mars which they'd only get to see on TV.
Experts and professionals in the field around the world would be involved in making and commenting on those plans, and would crawl over each other to be involved in some way once they saw the funding existed.
I say you'd better convince some of those experts and co-opt them in your team from the beginning. They should also become public advocates of your idea, especially if they are known by the public. This should increase your credibility and fund/pledge-raising ability. You need considerable real money before you can actually do anything that can show your competence - projects, designs, concept-prove tests. Consider the fact that they stand to lose reputation, time and money if they stand behind a doomed project. Can you convince them that the risk is worth it?
RobS, you can spend the next thousand years on Devon and getting to Mars won't be any more likely. Yes, we are learning important things there. Yes, the research stations are a good idea in themselves. But unless they're part of an actual mission plan to go to Mars, they don't actually contribute anything toward making that happen. Nobody who wouldn't joyously pledge for a direct Mars plan is going to change their minds because a handful of people worked some bugs out of spacesuits and hydroponics in the Arctic.
On this, we are on accord.
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