Posted on 04/01/2014 9:53:43 AM PDT by kingattax
A audacious project to send volunteers on a one-way colony trip to Mars is drawing up plans for simulation outposts on Earth to give potential Red Planet settlers a taste of Martian life.
Mars One announced their plans for mock Martian colonies Thursday (March 27), though the nonprofit hasn't picked a location for the first simulator yet.
"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," Bas Lansdorp, co-founder of Mars One, said in a statement. "We are going from theory to practice." [Photos: How Mars One Wants to Colonize the Red Planet]
Lansdorp hopes to put astronaut bootprints on the Red Planet by 2025. But the first Mars One colonists won't be coming back to Earth. Instead they'll live out their days in a thick-walled habitat, protected against harmful solar particles and cosmic rays, donning spacesuits to go outside in a place that lacks a breathable atmosphere. The mock habitats would attempt to recreate those isolated conditions, though at first, they won't
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Nah, they can just use some filtered camera lenses. No need to change the dust...
Nah, they can just use some filtered camera lenses. No need to change the dust...
Wasn’t the first moon landing really a movie set in AZ or where ever? (Attempt at humor.)
My thinking, too.
“Wasn’t the first moon landing really a movie set in AZ or where ever?”
They made the first Mars landing into a movie, Capricorn 1. I think it starred OJ.
Send all Liberal DamnoRATS.
No they can't. It was refitted and currently being used to fake a presidency.
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