Reality Mars

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 8:23 am

Leave it to the Roosky's to find a way to make a buck.
On funding for the manned Mars mission:

"Aerospace Systems, a commercial company seeking to fund the project using private capital, suggested it could involve a reality TV show."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3615251.stm

roid · Post by **roid** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 5:35 am

food and services for the long trip to mars, also "a garden full of plants, and everything else, ready to goto mars" STOWED SAFELY FOR THE ZERO G TRIP, THEN READY TO DEPLOY ON MARS. assembled in orbit, in only 10years.

seems like a rediculously unachieveable claim to me.

and as for this suggesting of a TV show, you gotta remember that mars rotates, so without a satelite infrastructure you won't be able to transmit 24/7, also you would have to have a worldwide array of dishs on earth facing mars to pick up the constant HIGH BANDWIDTH signal, that dish hire time costs a lot of $. and i'm not sure if mars has the satelite network capable of this amount of heavy use data traffic anyway.

and lol @ the "and now for something completely different!" the article does in teh last 2 paragraphs:

Earlier this week the US authorities issued a licence for the first time to a company hoping to make a manned sub-orbital space flight in a privately owned rocket.

hmm, obviously not a licence for space. so i wonder what this "license" is.
maybe they have to fly over USA soil during the flight launch.

ps: what's with the "trust the russians to make a buck" comment woody?

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 9:13 am

Maybe we can put all the producers of the current reality shows on the ship and arrange for it to have an "accident".

roid · Post by **roid** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 9:21 am

heh i'd like to watch them on mars. safe in the knowledge that they are far from me. i wish the producers of the shows would follow them though.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:49 am

hmm, obviously not a licence for space. so i wonder what this "license" is.
maybe they have to fly over USA soil during the flight launch.

Roid this is but a 1st step that the start-up space companies need to get licensed for full space flight certification (and a 10 million dollar prize). Burt Rutan is the recipient of the license (refer back to the "Rutan is God" thread)

http://www.avpress.com/n/thsty4.hts

As to the Rooskies, they will do anything for money...just ask them

roid · Post by **roid** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 6:34 am

bigot

but thx for trying to answer my question though

and i shall dig up this rutan is god thread.

[edit: Rutan is not mentioned anywhere in teh DBB but in this very thread.]

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:21 am

Total Recal comes to mind.

bash · Post by **bash** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:30 pm

roid · Post by **roid** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:41 pm

haha, that guy is invincible

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:42 pm

Thanks Bash, I always wondered who cleaned the rovers camera lens