If you have ambitions of being one of the first people on Mars, listen
up: A Dutch company says it is moving along with its plan to send four
lucky Earthlings to colonize the Red Planet. The catch: They won't ever
come back.
The Mars One foundation announced Tuesday that it has
secured lead suppliers for an unmanned mission launching in 2018, which
involves a robotic lander and a communications satellite. Lockheed
Martin has been contracted to study building the lander, and Surrey
Satellite Technology Ltd. will develop a concept study for the
satellite, Mars One said.
This first mission will demonstrate
technology that would be involved in a permanent human settlement on
Mars. If all goes well — and that's still very much an "if" — the first
pioneers could land on Mars in 2025.
A meteorite from Mars found
by Bedouin tribesmen in the Sahara last year has been used to determine
the Red Planet's crust was formed 4.4 billion years ago, scientists have
said.
American and French geologists found tough crystals within
the meteorite called zircons, which held traces of uranium, whose rate
of decay can be used as a calculator of age.
"This date is about
100 million years after the first dust condensed in the solar system,"
said Munir Humayun, a professor of Earth, ocean and atmospheric science
at Florida State University.
Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp's
Mars One, an organization planning to establish a colony on the red
planet by 2023, is more popular than Obamacare. Lansdrop has collected
more signatures for his improbable project than all the number of
Americans who have enrolled in Obama's mandatory health insurance
fiasco.
On Wednesday, the first Delaware resident signed up for
Obamacare. On Thursday, it was reported that nobody in Alaska had
bothered to sign up for the program due to the government's inability to
keep up its glitch-prone enrollment website. In response, Alaskan
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski fired off a letter to the Obama
administration.
"This system that cost more than $400 million,
took three years to build, and was billed as a one-stop shop for
individuals seeking health insurance is not working as advertised,"
Murkowski wrote. "In its first two weeks of operation, I am told that no
one was able to enroll in the Alaska Exchange."
Obama's
apparatchiks refuse to release enrollment numbers, so there is no
verifiable numbers on how many people have enrolled in the government's
healthcare-at-gunpoint scheme.
"The administration is not wrong
in saying that there's been a lot of problems with signing up. But it's
incorrect to say that's the only problem," an insurance industry
official told CNN. "That's not the only issue at hand."
Indeed,
there is another issue at hand, one that is not being addressed by the
establishment media. If the government can't effectively handle data and
other mundane aspects, how can it be expected to manage a massive,
complex and unprecedented healthcare program?
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Results
from the surface-radiation monitoring provide an additional piece of
the puzzle for projecting the total round-trip radiation dose for a
future human mission to Mars. Added to dose rates Curiosity measured
during its flight to Mars, the Mars surface results project a total
round-trip dose rate for a future human mission at the same period in
the solar cycle to be on the order of 1,000 millisieverts.
Long-term
population studies have shown exposure to radiation increases a
person's lifetime cancer risk. Exposure to a dose of 1,000 millisieverts
is associated with a 5 percent increase in risk for developing fatal
cancer. NASA's current career limit for increased risk for its
astronauts currently operating in low-Earth orbit is 3 percent. The
agency is working with the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academies to address the ethics, principles and guidelines for health
standards for long duration and exploration spaceflight missions.
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