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Ambiwlans602 karma

Yeah. You are a customer of Lockheed they are comfortable selling you a feasibility study.

You literally have no connection to SSTL aside from having said that you'll buy technology from them in the future. Maybe one meeting with them at some point? Did they even offer you a discount?

Same with Paragon.

Same with SpaceX which you have listed on your site. I honestly can't believe that you've gotten more than a tour and literally every single SpaceX engineer I've spoken to has straight up laughed at your organization.

I don't to be mean but, if you are going to name drop, you actually have to have some weight behind it otherwise why not list the President and God?

technically and financially possible

You have literally no idea what is technically or financially possible. You just hired one of the companies to do a paper for you. That is IT. How can you say that something is possible while at the same time having a feasibility study done? Seriously, you've freely admitted elsewhere that you aren't a hardcore engineer and don't know many things involved in this sort of mission, why are you comfortable saying you can do it regardless?

As for finances, please, release some numbers. Your simple, basic, Phoenix based, preliminary mission will cost you AT LEAST 250~300Million USD for the no frills version. Do you have the capital to do that? Are you close?


SpaceX was an organization formed with the same goal, man on Mars. They've gotten several billion dollars in contracts, have a spacecraft that has been to the ISS, have designed multiple rockets and is on track to overtake the top spot for a launch organization worldwide in 2016 or so. They have worked closely with NASA for years, they have a massive factory, several thousand employees, a billionaire boss willing to sink money into the endeavor. And THEY aren't close to announcing a Mars mission. What makes you think you are? What do you have that they don't?

Ambiwlans360 karma

"Please stop."

Ambiwlans357 karma

When can we expect NASA to return to the outer planets

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New Horizons is on its way to Pluto

I'm taking this as NASA agreeing that Pluto is a planet. :P NdGT will be mad.

Ambiwlans165 karma

Your gf doesn't actually think its funny.

Ambiwlans149 karma

A better option might be to have colourblindness selectable in the basic google account and it could change all of google's colourations. Probably not overly tough if someone wants to spend their 20% time on it.