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David Ellard

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Re: Mars Needs You! - What would you pay to finance Mars

Let me know how much you personally would be interested in spending to help finance a Mars mission.

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soph

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Re: Mars Needs You! - What would you pay to finance Mars

polls dont work, but i would spend $1k+ if i had the money. keep the amount of land available to the public limited though, and give a large amount of land to the people who get there (50 km radius sounds about right to me).

Palomar

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Re: Mars Needs You! - What would you pay to finance Mars

*I'd be willing to pay $100.00 to have a geographical feature ::officially:: named in Voltaire's memory and honor.  Preferably that heart-shaped crater on Mars (yeah, I suppose it's already been named...but that can be fixed) 

Voltaire is my sweetheart and hero, in case you're wondering.

--Cindy

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Bill White

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Re: Mars Needs You! - What would you pay to finance Mars

I suggest a different direction - since I believe "selling" any of Mars is not currently feasible, whether legally or politically.

How much extra would you pay for a shirt, or shoes, or a neck tie that had a Mars theme logo if you were guaranteed that 10% of the sales price would be used to fund humans to Mars?

How much extra do people pay for shoes with a Nike logo versus the same shoes with no logo?

But to answer the question: If I knew enough other people were contributing and I was certain folks really were going to use the money to go to Mars - instead of buying new computers or office furniture for space advocacy fundraisers - I would donate $1,000 per year for as many years as it took for humanity to do it.

I would not even ask for anything in return - except maybe a tax write off!

soph

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Re: Mars Needs You! - What would you pay to finance Mars

bill gates donates $1 billion a year to charity, think $100 million could find its way to space programs?

David Ellard

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Registered: 2002-12-23

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Re: Mars Needs You! - What would you pay to finance Mars

I don't think that limiting the ammount of land bought should be a problem, even getting all the money required should only sell off about 1% of the Martian land, and thats hardly explioting.
Selling T-Shirts and merchindise should help, but only when combined with the other money making schemes.
BTW if anyone is confused, this post was supposed to be under the Paying for Mars topic, sorry bout placing it here, but I'm new to this, I take it the polls don't work for anyone?

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Palomar

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Re: Mars Needs You! - What would you pay to finance Mars

sorry bout placing it here, but I'm new to this, I take it the polls don't work for anyone?

*Apparently there's been problems in the past with polls showing results...Adrian?

--Cindy

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Adrian

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Re: Mars Needs You! - What would you pay to finance Mars

Yeah, polls basically don't work (although I believe if you log out and have a look at them as a guest, you can see the results, I'm not sure). I put it down to a peculiarity or bug in the software. Probably will be fixed when I upgrade the forums.

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Josh Cryer

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Re: Mars Needs You! - What would you pay to finance Mars

My own sweat and blood.

No, really, getting to Mars in my lifetime would take a lot of effort. I'm hopeful, but I dunno.

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