Tickle me Elmo

Elmo, you’re still rolling with most of the same laughable mistakes from your last piece and have compounded it with the easily disproven claim that Mars One finalists bought their way in. Simply looking at the contributions of those who made it and those who didn’t (all publicly available) would pop that balloon with the same speed of your many other “facts” that disintegrate upon exposure to publicly available data.

As the link above shows, you appear to have little interest in the experts working with Mars One and a lot of interest in finding people who share your cynicism. Here is what the last CTO of NASA has to say about the subject: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/02/23/mars-one-nasa-congress-mason-a-peck-editorials-debates/23908203/

Along with other Mars One advisors that you could interview if you had any objective interest, Dr. Peck explains that there will always be naysayers, but those kinds of people don’t ever get us anywhere. They simply make excuses while claiming they are waiting for something better - even though history clearly shows that colonial expeditions often follow this very model that the uneducated cynics are so absolutely certain is a fools errand or even a scam.

Elmo, when you are ready to drop your confirmation bias and attempt an in-depth interview with folks like Dr. Peck, Dr. Zubrin, Dr. Kraft, Paul Romer, etc., we may take you seriously.