Topic: Looks like Mars One is a scam in the making! - page 3. (Read 2546 times)
Sofaking sad.
I haven't really been following it much, but from what I understand, this is a privately funded venture, right? If so, how can the volunteers really get mad for being asked to help with the expenses? IF the journey actually happens, I am willing to bet the people going won't be complaining about the food they will be eating or the water they will be drinking or the air they will be breathing. It's not really any different than someone having to pay for an airline or cruise ship ticket. Well, I guess the difference is that those two aren't usually permanently one-way 
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I will concede that whoever thought this thing up should have had more of a plan for funding and training. And because he/she failed to do so, I seriously doubt this trip will happen.
.I will concede that whoever thought this thing up should have had more of a plan for funding and training. And because he/she failed to do so, I seriously doubt this trip will happen.
Quote from: OP Article
So, here are the facts as we understand them: Mars One has almost no money. Mars One has no contracts with private aerospace suppliers who are building technology for future deep-space missions. Mars One has no TV production partner. Mars One has no publicly known investment partnerships with major brands. Mars One has no plans for a training facility where its candidates would prepare themselves. Mars One’s candidates have been vetted by a single person, in a 10-minute Skype interview.
Damn, this is really disappointing. I was hopeful this wasn't going to be some crackpot venture, but it's really in far worse shape I would have thought. Some guy's pipe dream that grabbed media attention it didn't deserve.
**gets to mars after a oneway journey**
"Fuck I've made a terrible mistake" - every person on mars one.
"Fuck I've made a terrible mistake" - every person on mars one.
“When you join the ‘Mars One Community,’ which happens automatically if you applied as a candidate, they start giving you points,” Roche explained to me in an email. “You get points for getting through each round of the selection process (but just an arbitrary number of points, not anything to do with ranking), and then the only way to get more points is to buy merchandise from Mars One or to donate money to them.”
Yeah, sure sounds like a scam
Yeah, sure sounds like a scam
https://medium.com/matter/mars-one-insider-quits-dangerously-flawed-project-2dfef95217d3
No money, no process, no explanation: An insider speaks out on the hopelessly flawed scheme.
Dr Joseph Roche is one of the finalists to go on Mars One's much-hyped mission to the Red Planet. And yet he says he's never had an in-person interview, had to organize his own physical exam, was only tested on prepared questions, and is being encouraged to give more and more money to the group. That's why he's decided to quit.
No money, no process, no explanation: An insider speaks out on the hopelessly flawed scheme.
Dr Joseph Roche is one of the finalists to go on Mars One's much-hyped mission to the Red Planet. And yet he says he's never had an in-person interview, had to organize his own physical exam, was only tested on prepared questions, and is being encouraged to give more and more money to the group. That's why he's decided to quit.
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