Tuesday, September 29, 2015

It is revived interest in travel to the Red Planet – Clarín.com

Yesterday, NASA confirmed that saltwater fluids were detected on Mars. Ad hand, increased the hopes of finding life on this planet and interest (always present, now enhanced) was fed to “colonize”. To that end, all eyes turned to stand on Mars One Dutch project

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Mars One is a private project, initiated in 2013 by researcher Bas Landorsp. Seeks to finance a trip to Mars by various sponsors and television broadcasts, in the style of a “reality show”. Among its ambassadors to the Nobel Prize in Physics, Gerard ‘t Hooft, who considers the mission technically possible, though difficult.

“It’s time, seriously, raise funds to travel to Mars. We have to go now!” Said Le Skinner, one of the followers of Facebook of Mars One. “The race for put a human on Mars that can survive and adapt is too real, “said Vernon Brewer III, another fan of the Dutch project. “Mars one is very real, I mean, they have a launch pad, control room, financing:.! Everything.” Matthew Bartlett was excited, another enthusiast Mars One

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The aim is to establish a permanent human life on Mars. Those who go will have only “a one way ticket”: die on that planet because current technology does not allow the return journey to Earth. They must live in small habitats and grow their own food.

Leave life on another planet? It may sound extreme, but many were added to fulfill his fantasy. Were 202,586 people, from 140 countries, which were recorded since April 2013, when he began the selection process. Among them were 35 Argentines, including the granddaughter of composer and pianist Osvaldo Pugliese . Only they could reach the second stage 705, which the company considered “mentally and physically able.” Among the shortlisted had an Argentine, Mar del Plata Felipe Campos Otamendi , but failed for the last exams to enter the third round. Therefore, we do not have any representatives in the running of our country.

more choices remain to be made, until they elect the 24 people who could actually travel to Mars, divided into six groups. The project plans to send communications satellites in 2018, and only in 2023 launched the first manned by four people. Two years later they sent a second crew, and so on. The aim is to form a permanent colony, a true human community.

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