[butlerweave]

If it never was can it be dead ?

[The Pack Knight]

Pretty sure this was always meant to be a scam.

[from occupied ga]

Fantasy runs into reality. Reality wins.

[Steely Tom]

Mars One would be the backdrop to the world's most expensive reality show as Earthbound viewers watched the colonization process. As part of the angle, Mars One recruited its potential colonists from a pool of volunteers and made documentaries about them.

Makes about as much sense as the Fyre Festival business plan.

[samtheman]

Born dead.

Or.

Never born.

[DoodleBob]

I think many people are missing the point.

Private industry and capital can do things more efficiently than government largess. True, government can FORCE things but, in the end, you get something like the Space Program which, while we beat the USSR to the Moon, didn't have long-run viability.

The "creative destruction" of capitalism will lead to flame-outs like this one, and will attract Elon Musk-types as well. But ultimately, you'll get people on Mars without ghastly government-caused death in outer space due to some bureaucratic stupidity.

[Slyfox]

Can’t they just send the Lunar Rover over there to help him out?

[GreenHornet]

But RBG is attending plays and going to the gym.

[Mr. Blond]

I didn’t know he was sick.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*