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**Spank The Monkey**

A DUTCH company has announced it wants to colonise Mars and plans to send four astronauts to the red planet to start operations by 2022.
MarsOne, founded by a Dutch energy entrepreneur, plans to send a communications satellite to Mars by 2016 and a rover to traverse the planet by 2018.
By 2020 all the infrastructure needed to host a colony would be built ready for the astronauts to leave Earth by September 14, 2022.
The company has not released any information about breeding programs, but MarsOne plans to add astronauts to the colony every two years.
The astronauts must be committed to the project - because they will never be able to leave.
Entrepreneur Bas Landsdorp said he planned to fund the venture via "media spectacle" - whatever that means.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-te...6383230036

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 102298 06-14-2012 01:12 AM

Excellent find.

I see they just let your thread die. They do that with important information.

If true, this is probably where all the money has been going. Go stand in the Sun today and you'll see why if will be necessary.

If false, it will give us all hope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0--IoBkeYPU&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cRBfkL1YY&feature=plcp

**Ultima_Thule**

I'd bet money, that there will be people lining up in droves to volunteer for such a mission.

**chance**

I saw an article about a year ago-asking if people would volunteer for this. Apparently they had more than enough apply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_to_Stay

I think Jet Propulsion Labs is involved in this.
Jack Parsons
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bb/babalon005.htm