Dutch Startup Hopes To Fund Mars Mission With Reality TV Show

[Bluce Ree]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...ans_for_colonizing_the_red_planet_video_.html

The Dutch startup Mars One is counting on reality television to fund a highly ambitious trip to colonize the red planet.

The company hopes to establish the first human colony on Mars in 2023. (That’s 10 years before NASA hopes to reach Mars.) It plans to send four explorers on a one-way trip, with new teams following every two years.

That’s right—the Mars One colonists should expect to remain there for the rest of their lives, though the project website notes, “this is no way excludes the possibility of a return flight at some point in the future.” The settlers will have to hope that once Mars is sufficiently populated and developed, it will be “much easier to build the returning rocket there.” How comforting.

Colonize Mars as part of a reality show? One way trip? Build return rockets on Mars for a trip back someday in the future?

Does anyone else see this as a disaster in the making?

 

[shavedape]

"Dutch" + "Mars mission" ??? :suspicion:

I appreciate the soft ball lobbed right over the plate but really, that's just too easy.

 

[Bluce Ree]

"Dutch" + "Mars mission" ??? :suspicion:

I appreciate the soft ball lobbed right over the plate but really, that's just too easy.

Predators rarely go for the easy kill tied to the post, huh?

 

[SciphonicStranger]

Predators rarely go for the easy kill tied to the post, huh?

That one was like a cat playing with a ball of yarn.

 

[Backstep]

Do you get your own windmill?

 

[Stonelesscutter]

Lol. What a hopeless endeavour. And what morons besides wellgroomed monkeys would possibly consider participating as a passenger on such flights?

 

[Bluce Ree]

Lol. What a hopeless endeavour. And what morons besides wellgroomed monkeys would possibly consider participating as a passenger on such flights?

Have you ever seen the Jerry Springer show? If it were an American reality show, the training would be 6 weeks concluding with a launch in a flying interplanetary trashcan stuffed with dumbasses. Hicks would be lined up around the corner, down the street and all the way out to the state line to get on a show ending in a one-way trip to Mars without fully appreciating the consequences of such an endeavor.

 

[Rac80]

Have you ever seen the Jerry Springer show? If it were an American reality show, the training would be 6 weeks concluding with a launch in a flying interplanetary trashcan stuffed with dumbasses. Hicks would be lined up around the corner, down the street and all the way out to the state line to get on a show ending in a one-way trip to Mars without fully appreciating the consequences of such an endeavor.

they'd clean out trailer parks around the country!

 

[Stonelesscutter]

they'd clean out trailer parks around the country!

There are cheaper ways to do that.
Ask the Germans.
Or Shaved for that matter.

BTW, I smell some Jerries about to get their *sses kicked tonight.

 

[Illiterati]

I loved Stephen Colbert's endorsement of this idea the other day.

He basically said you could watch your dome-mates die of hypoxia.

I love that man.

 

[Bluce Ree]

they'd clean out trailer parks around the country!

GREEN! I fell off my chair laughing!!

 

[Bluce Ree]

I loved Stephen Colbert's endorsement of this idea the other day.

He basically said you could watch your dome-mates die of hypoxia.

I love that man.

Colbert and Stewart have an amazing talent for putting things into perspective.

 

[Bluce Ree]

There are cheaper ways to do that.
Ask the Germans.
Or Shaved for that matter.

BTW, I smell some Jerries about to get their *sses kicked tonight.

The Germans wouldn't stand a chance against trailer park trash. Rednecks are typically armed to the teeth with formidable arsenals. They may be dumb hicks but they do know their weapons.

 

[Rac80]

GREEN! I fell off my chair laughing!!

I try!!! :glee:

The Germans wouldn't stand a chance against trailer park trash. Rednecks are typically armed to the teeth with formidable arsenals. They may be dumb hicks but they do know their weapons.

okay you KNEW this was coming:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE


can't forget Deliverance can we?

 

[shavedape]

The Germans wouldn't stand a chance against trailer park trash. Rednecks are typically armed to the teeth with formidable arsenals. They may be dumb hicks but they do know their weapons.

Oh please, air-soft pellet guns are hardly formidable to the German war machine. It would be no contest. The gears of the Tiger tanks would be "oiled" with the anemic blood of their meth-addled bodies. Oh the humanity! :devilish:

 

[Bluce Ree]

Oh please, air-soft pellet guns are hardly formidable to the German war machine. It would be no contest. The gears of the Tiger tanks would be "oiled" with the anemic blood of their meth-addled bodies. Oh the humanity! :devilish:

 

[Overmind One]

GREEEEN! Rednecks are clever critters when it comes to runnin and shootin. Many of them have crafted special weapons that would make your skin crawl.

 

[Bluce Ree]

GREEEEN! Rednecks are clever critters when it comes to runnin and shootin. Many of them have crafted special weapons that would make your skin crawl.

In spite of being the biggest embarrassment to this country, they're also America's best kept secret. I would put my money on them being quite formidable on the front lines if there were ever an invasion.

 

[shavedape]

In spite of being the biggest embarrassment to this country, they're also America's best kept secret. I would put my money on them being quite formidable on the front lines if there were ever an invasion.

I don't see anyone invading Appalachia or Oklahoma any time soon.

 

[Rac80]

I don't see anyone invading Appalachia or Oklahoma any time soon.

oh, you naive sweet thang you! there are rednecks EVERYWHERE! ev ery city and town has them now. california-- yeah they have rednecks, chicago-- oh yeah plenty of rednecks there! New Jersey --'nuff said! the rednecks have cars these days, they even fly on planes. don't let the lack of teeth fool ya- they are mobile!