Mars One

Glaucus said:
7 years training, I expect they will all have specialist anlti trained to a lower degree than the specialist.
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Certainly, however it would make more sense to start with people who have plenty of experience in a speiciality. For example a medic with 20 years experience and an engineer who knows the ins and outs of the tech they will be handling.
 
Suarez7 said:
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Had me in laughter for nearly an hour now.
Best gif ever. :D:D:D
 
Just noticed the filter on the right hand side. Filtered all the female applicants. Quite a lot of munters have applied. There are some lookers in there thoughso chances of a colony of munters have been reduced slightly.

On a serious note, how would they broadcast from Mars to Earth? Might seem like a stupid question but would really like to know.
 
So I'm guessing that anything broadcast on TV here will definitely not be a live feed and will hit NASA first who will then edit appropriately?

Just imagining the following announcement being broadcast -

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have lost contact with the outpost/colonists on Mars......"
 
CLAWS said:
So I'm guessing that anything broadcast on TV here will definitely not be a live feed and will hit NASA first who will then edit appropriately?
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Nasa has nothing to do with it.
Its upto mars one how they broadcast it and there tv/online media partners.

They will deploy a comunication satellite in mars orbit for communications and broadcasts.
 
Yup, nothing to do with NASA at all :D

Space exploration seems to be increasingly going the way of private corporations rather than countries and their respective space programmes. Just look at all the companies created around asteroid mining
 
How does the Mars base communicate with Earth?
All communication goes through satellites.

Both planets' orbits carry them to the same side of the Sun once every two years, at which point the distance between them totals roughly 55 million kilometers. At the opposite ends of their orbits – when Mars is one side of the Sun and Earth the other – this stretches to around 400 million. As communication signals travel at the speed of light, this means that it can take between 3 and 22 minutes for the information to reach the other end. A phone call would not be practical, but there would be no limitations to email, texting or 'WhatsApping' with the Mars residents. It'll just take at least 6 minutes for you to get your reply. Both voicemail and video messages are also easily workable options.

The astronauts can use the Internet, but can only surf 'real time' on a number of websites that are downloaded from Earth on the Mars habitat webserver. Every astronaut will have access to his favorite websites that way. Other websites will be very impractical because of the delay.

The settlement will be broadcasting images of daily life back to Earth 24/7, so that everyone can see what the astronauts are up to. Of course, they will be delayed by anything from 3 to 22 minutes, so they will be as close to live as we can get!

This expense means the Mars astronauts will have to be very self-sufficient. Should they send down a "Houston, we have a problem," Houston might not even know about it until 22 minutes later. Even so, we would not be much help: our fastest rocket will be scheduled to arrive six months after the fact.

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