Out of Pod Experience

Really, I'm hoping you all are too smart for that. An ambitious plan yes, but for the people going it's essentially a death sentence.

If they had planned a Lunar Mission, where we could conceivably retrieve the colonists in time, or as needed, then I wouldn't see it as being so arrogant, but as is, it really is a one way trip that is a tragedy in inception.

Basically, they plan on recruiting a bunch of people, training them for 7 years, then launching them on a one-way trip to Mars, (no relation), where they will find themselves some nice little capsule to live in for the rest of their lives. It's a 7 month trip, 4 people per craft, and some may not even survive the journey there.

Once stuck on that little red planet, they will have to construct the primary portion of their habitat by linking the pods, (think the capsule that was used to land on the moon, with slightly more room), together with short tunnels and make themselves comfortable. A lander designed after the Mars Rover will construct parts of the colony before their arrival, which will involve laying out some solar panels and cables if I don't miss my guess.

All said and done, they will be confined to these pods and relying on shipments of food and water until they go crazy, kill each other, commit suicide, or otherwise die of natural or unnatural causes in a recorded-for posterity-environment.

Let me reiterate:

No trees, no lakes, no walking around outside without a space suit; Just a confined space with a bunch of people eating freeze dried foods in a low-G environment while their bodies slowly deteriorate. No doctors, nurses, engineers, or care of any kind unless someone who happened to be selected has those skills.

The psychological ramifications on the Human mind under those conditions doesn't have to be guessed at. Not entirely anyway, but someone will be observing from far away and watching as they one-by-one snap, break down, or slowly lose rational control over their actions. All with no ability to lend assistance of any kind, and likely no desire on the part of the people sending them.

Rats in a lab. A distant prison where the inmates are volunteers. Call it what you will, but it's not in any way progress.

Just my opinion of course.

Dear god no. Extraterrestrial reality TV series where you're coupled with 7 other people that you will spend the rest of your natural life with in what amounts to a couple of TAB teardrop camp trailers, and no hope of returning if things go wrong (with you bunk mates or the station).

I'm on on board with Elon Musk' idea of building Biodomes that can hold far more people and will withstand little things like the several month long dust storms that Mars get (although I bet that will be a HI-larious portion of that show). Plus the fact that he and my capstone group pretty much thought of the same thing including the delivery system. I would love to show him the rest of our MTM project.

Mars One scores very high in "scam" and "crackpotery".

It is not science.
it is not real.
It is crackpotery.
It is a scam.

It's a carefully planned out scheme to rid the world of some of the stupidest people in the world

Last I saw they had 165K + applicants. Application closed Aug. 31 too, so they won't be getting any more if they stick to that. They were looking for a pool up to 500K, but I guess not that many people are willing to throw their lives away for that.

I think it is interesting and the free market getting into this industry is NOT a bad thing. People have wasted their lives for far more stupid causes. At the end of the day it could prove to be quite informative and worst case mildly entertaining. Progress starts as mini steps and these are the mini steps we need to take before full out building space colonies.

I for one am excited by the possibility that I will see our race prosper off our planet. I can only imagine what my boys will see in theirs.

I know that this is a scam, but wouldn't there be a house built on it already? We could take all the prisoners that are sentenced for life to Mars so that our jails wouldn't be so filled up.

Also, the reality T.V. show probably NCIS: Mars. It would only last 4 episodes.

They'll just need to separate those single beds again before the cameras turn on.