"Details" like paying for all the flights required to get all of the infrastructure to be self sustaining and create more of that infrastructure for population growth. And to support an aging part of the population that is no longer productive. But yeah, where is the thread where this small detail is not being handwaved away?Edit: apparently I've caused some confusion. There are plenty of threads going into the difficulties of creating said selfsufficient colony. None of which include a magic master plan from SpaceX to pay for it all. They themselves have said they only do the transport. Once there, you still need a way to pay for consuming stuff that people who paid to get there make, and using infrastructure that someone paid for to put up there.
Quote from: high road on 03/15/2018 04:44 am"Details" like paying for all the flights required to get all of the infrastructure to be self sustaining and create more of that infrastructure for population growth. And to support an aging part of the population that is no longer productive. But yeah, where is the thread where this small detail is not being handwaved away?Edit: apparently I've caused some confusion. There are plenty of threads going into the difficulties of creating said selfsufficient colony. None of which include a magic master plan from SpaceX to pay for it all. They themselves have said they only do the transport. Once there, you still need a way to pay for consuming stuff that people who paid to get there make, and using infrastructure that someone paid for to put up there.I replied in the SpaceX "Development of a Martian export economy" thread.
This isn't the thread to discuss SpaceX's plan in detail, but the goal is to make the Mars colony self sufficient. By the time the ticket price comes that low, little should need to be imported for basic survival. Details are TBD, and I doubt necessary supplies would even be billed to the colonists by SpaceX, but even if they were, the cost would be nowhere near a full additional ticket per person.
2. I asked Lansdop whether reusing Phoenix for 2022 is still into the plans. He said yes. 3. Amazingly, there's one thing that I understood during the lecture - it's that there's still no commitment on what rockets to use. Mars One representatives were rather vague - they said they can use any rockets. There's no even firm decision about the first mission. This IMO is quite strange - time is running out.
Mars One is (finally) bankrupthttps://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/to-almost-no-ones-surprise-mars-one-is-done/
Quote from: FishInferno on 02/11/2019 11:39 pmMars One is (finally) bankrupthttps://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/to-almost-no-ones-surprise-mars-one-is-done/Not entirely dead yet...The commercial part of Mars One (Mars One Ventures AG) is bankrupt.The not-for-profit part of Mars One (Mars One Foundation - responsible for selecting astronauts and mission training) is (unfortunately IMO) still operating, according to a statement by Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp
Mars One lied when they promised to send people to Mars, but who’s to blame for people thinking it was real? @desilydic investigates: on.cc.com/2RPV81q
I spoke with Australian Mars One candidate Josh Richards last night. He reports that Mars One is still alive and that they will be having a big meeting in Amsterdam in the middle of this year. They are still at 100 candidates and haven't down selected yet. Mars One decided to stay quiet through the media hype of Mars One Ventures AG going bankrupt, which has not affected the Mars One Foundation who are responsible for the mission.