Motorola CEO Talks To AP About Global Vision

RAMIS,

There are International Laws that protect intellectual

property. Here in the States, it’s USAC TITLE 17, 501, et seq.

HUDSON SOFT, INC. is a Japanese firm, founded May 18,

1973, in Sapporo , HOKKAIDO, Japan.

Be very cautious. The Japanese are VERY litigious.

They are very protective of products of hard work.

Now, you can take a chance, but I would not !!

It’s just way, way easier. to call your local Public Library, and perhaps get that info.

IF they don;t have it, call the NEW YORK PUBLIC
LIBRARY.

Having said that, you might approach them about
ideas for improving their product. That might put
you in some serious money.

Britt

Mars One is all bark and no bite.

Mars One idea to establish a colony on Mars by 2023 is unrealistic on many different levels. To me it sounds like a group of naive idealists thought of this in a ganja induced stupor. Had they bothered to consult with specialists who actually sent missions to Mars they would have found out that:

1)
The largest thing landed on Mars was the size and weight of VW Beatle. A habitat large enough for 4 people and supplies for 2 years will be the size of a house and will weigh 40 to 60 tons! A parachute to land something this heavy on Mars will have to be the size of a large stadium. Air bags and Sky Crane methods used on the past missions won’t scale up to something this large either. A new landing method must be devised and tried on Mars first. They will also need to land within walking distance of the previously landed colony modules. Today, the best we can target the Martian landing is an approximately 20 by 10 mile ellipse. Mars One needs to demonstrate that they can successfully land something this large and heavy with pinpoint precision before they send people.

This demonstrator lander could also serve to preposition colonists’ initial supplies on Mars. If they want to go to Mars in 2023, they should be building this demonstrator now to launch in 2019-2020 timeframe. The world aerospace media would be all over the story. I’ve been involved in the aerospace industry for almost 30 years, and I haven’t seen anything to suggest that they are building anything.

2)
There is no launch vehicle large enough to launch something as large as the aforementioned lander into the Earth orbit, let alone send it toward Mars. Mars One may try to assemble the lander stack in Earth orbit using existing launch vehicles but they don’t even have a contract with the launch service providers (e.g. Arianespace, SpaceX) to use the existing launch vehicles. Space launchers are not off-the-shelf items, they have to be ordered well in advance. None of the launch providers announced any deals to launch Mars One hardware.

3)
To survive on Mars, the colonists will have to extract resources in-situ. Ability to do this on Mars has not been demonstrated. Mars One must demonstrate that it can reliably produce enough water and oxygen, and grow enough food to sustain people on Mars before betting the lives of colonists on the technology.

4)
If Mars One wants to go to Mars in 2023, the designs for the colony should be well advanced, and fabrication of some long lead items should be underway. By now, tens of thousands of people should be working on the project.

Hundreds of thousands of scientists, engineers, technicians, machine tool operators worked on the the Apollo program in the 1960s. A Mars colony will require similar level of personnel commitment. The world-wide aerospace industry is not that large that noone would have noticed siphoning off of tens of thousands of professionals to work on the Mars colony project.

5)
Their cost estimates are completely off the wall. The Mars One website claims that they can pull the whole thing off for measly US $6 Billion. They are off by at least several orders of magnitude. The Curiosity rover mission cost $2.5 Billion. The International Space Station cost $150 Billion. The Apollo Program, when converted to 2005 dollars, cost $170 Billion. A 2-3 year mission to Mars is estimated to cost over $300 Billion.

Using these numbers a guide, a Mars colony, with a resupply mission every 2 years or so, should cost anywhere from $750 Billion to $1 Trillion for the first 10 years. For comparison, the 2012 Gross Domestic Product (value of all goods and services produced by the country) of Australia is $986.7 Billion. Where is this kind of money going to come from? Certainly not from selling a bunch of T-shirts and coffee mugs or from colonists’ application fees.

To me this whole idea sounds like a lot of hand waving at best, and, at worst, an attempt to collect as many application fees as possible and skip town.