Mars One is a massive scam

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in space on (#549P)
story image"Mars One" is the hole-in-the-wall company getting mainstream press coverage for promoting unbelievable and non-doable plans to colonize Mars by 2025. Scientists and astronomers are saying that the plan is delusional, laughable, dangerous and a huge scam. Mars One has not developed any kind of space technology that will allow the outer space travel to occur. There were no proven contracts with other companies that provide space equipment. All the people behind Mars One are just a bunch of scammers.

Last February, Mars One producers announced the final 100 finalists to be among the first six humans to live on Mars. They falsified the claims that they received more than 200,000 applicants for the contest. Roche claims that only 2,761 individuals were interested. All finalists were supposedly to undergo a few weeks of interviews and testing, but it turns out that finalists were only interviewed for 10 minutes via Skype call. They were even asked to donate to Mars One any money they earn from guest appearances. An unbelievable statement because the project was said to have cost the company 'billions of dollars'. Why would they need those small donations?

11 Year Old (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-03-20 03:16 (#59R1)

The linked article appears to have been written either by a well meaning but slow witted 11 year old, or a non-native English speaker with a poor grasp of the language.

I'm saying it's really bad.

It's a pity, because while I'm inclined to believe him or her, there isn't any meat on that story. Who are the "scammers", other than the mentioned interviewer? What is the proof? Citation please!
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