Mars One feasibility poll

[SALSN]

I just read this article: https://medium.com/matter/mars-one-insider-quits-dangerously-flawed-project-2dfef95217d3

 

Now I would like to hear your opinion, do you think the Mars One mission is feasible?

I personally think the concept, as of now, seems far fetched, and the group behind it seems quite unprofessional, if they have any real technological plan I have not found it.

 

Could the concept work in the future? Perhaps if they were backed by some serious space and media companies.

 

So I've never really believed in their concept, however I hope I am wrong, please state your reasons why you think this mission is or isn't feasible. I would especially like to hear from people who believe in this mission!

[DocM]

Not at all feasible. The first tipoff was day one when they stated 1) a one way trip, 2) that they would use a non-existant spacecraft - a 5 meter Dragon, and 3) SpaceX wasn't involved. It went downhill from there.

[+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹]

No chance. Not in 10 years that is for sure.  And probably not by this company, as people will see it is not going to work, and the company will go bankrupt shortly after.

 

And this article just confirmed it.

 

 

video summary, if you cannot be bothered to read text

[123456789A]

Not feasible but if you give me your money I can take you there.

[Unobscured Vision]

The Mars One initiative was not workable in its' current form for too many reasons to list here. I knew it was doomed to failure without a serious reworking up to and including a change of management. After that it wouldn't really be Mars One anymore, would it?

 

Nah ... just, nah. I feel badly for all of those who kicked in time, money, and energies toward that project scam. Forward-thinkers got ripped off and misled, and it's really a blatant travesty.

[FloatingFatMan]

^ Not only all that, but sending someone on a deliberate one way trip would seem to me to come under the legal auspices of... well.. murder!

[DocM]

It's not murder if they volunteer for the mission. Especially if they signed informed consent.

[FloatingFatMan]

It's not murder if they volunteer for the mission. Especially if they signed informed consent.

 

Assisted suicide isn't legal either...

[DocM]

Depends on the locale. In some countries assisted suicide is legal, or there is no law either way (Denmark), and the criteria pretty loose. Some US states have also legalized it.

Where ever, such criteria are always subject to the slippery slope effect.

[Beittil]

Voted no. While I do like the idea behind Mars One it is just too obvious that this entire plan is going nowhere. Everything from the use of non-existant tech, counting on launchers that are not booked, having an extremely unrealistic funding plan and continuous slipping of the schedule (gee, wonder why that is )... yeah, the only question that remains in this matter is not IF but rather WHEN will Lansdorp kick the bucket.

 

The means to built an outpost on Mars is also just to impractical, you cannot leave those pods on the surface! Imho any organisation that wants to built a Mars Colony should start by either finding a network of caves to live in or put some heavy machinery (diggers, front loaders, etc) on the surface, dig some holes, built structures in said holes and cover them up again with the previously excavated ground.

[DocM]

Or use expandable habitats covered with Martian regolith. Bigelow's lunar concept shows one way to do it as a temporary measure,

But NASA expandable concepts go back 5 decades,

[Beittil]

That NASA concept makes more sense to me imho, digging a big hole just gives better options. First, you don't have to worry about the lower half anymore and second, you can cover the top half with the regolith which u dug up to make room for the lower levels.

[FloatingFatMan]

Depends on the locale. In some countries assisted suicide is legal, or there is no law either way (Denmark), and the criteria pretty loose. Some US states have also legalized it.

Where ever, such criteria are always subject to the slippery slope effect.

 

Exactly, which is why I mentioned it. Could lead to a slippery precedent that no one wants to get into, so could easily fall foul of legal issues even if all their other issues with this mission were resolved.

[Jarrichvdv]

Not at all feasible. The first tipoff was day one when they stated 1) a one way trip, 2) that they would use a non-existant spacecraft - a 5 meter Dragon, and 3) SpaceX wasn't involved. It went downhill from there.

I understand why they're not focusing on a return trip. I do think Mars One is a scam, though.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Nice idea, but not feasible in the slightest.

[margrave]

It's definitely possible that we can send willing people to die trying though . . .

[SALSN]

^ Not only all that, but sending someone on a deliberate one way trip would seem to me to come under the legal auspices of... well.. murder!

Well the plan for them is not to die, it is to live and work there, which if everything works out perfectly still means they will die there, but from old age. Of course it is a (very very) high risk job, but we already have jobs with the risk of death, though the probability of death on this mission would be much higher, it is still "just" a job risk, it is not comparable to murder or assisted suicide.

 

The above argument does not consider the possibility of the mission being a deliberate scam, or incompetence leading to someone being judged with involuntary manslaughter (if that is the correct term?).