im surprised this hasn't be brought up yet so im going to go for it.
Dennis Tito has founded a non profit organisation with the goal of using a rare planetary alignment to achieve the goal of sending to humans on a fly by of mars and return them again by 2018. by doing this they will become the 1st private company to achieve something in space a government agency is unable to as well as sending humans many times further from the earth than any has gone before.
no straight away im going to assume FErs will say well its all fake and will be filmed in a film studio with a green screen. BUT Dennis Tito is funding this project for 2 years entirety by himself. putting i believe 66 million dollars of his own money into the project. and hoping to secure private financing to the tune of 1 billion dollars through private sponsorship TV rights and access to any scientific data compiled. he also say they do not need any help from NASA or any other government organisation.
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ImageShack.ushttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23215-first-private-mars-mission-aims-to-launch-in-2018.html?page=1so my question is.
Dennis Tito has been to space in 2001 becoming the 1st tourist to do so. so if the earth is flat then by extension he must know space travel is a hoax.
so,why is he investing 66 million dollars of his own money into an event he knows is impossible. also how is he going to convince paying private companies, each that are experts in the field they operate in, that he is pulling this of when in fact it will all be a hoax according to FE.
problems that will arise for it to be a hoax
Radio transmitions can be intercepted by anyone on earth who points a receiver to where the space craft is on its journey. ( the same could be done during Apollo)
scientific data will need to be falsified to a level where it can be used to convince the experts that its being sold to.
Doppler shift can be observed in radio transitions as the speed and direction of the craft changes in relation to the earth (sceptic wont understand relative speed)
i would assume a continual stream of footage will be broadcast from within the craft showing the crew during the journey so somehow they will need to replicate 0g for 501 day journey.
in our modern age of extreme HD video and highly advanced high mega pixel cameras all photographs will need to be insainly well faked probably tens if not hundreds of thousands of times and all match modern all ready reported pictures of the surface of mars.
actually build a craft capable of making the journey even though it wont because it will be the most interdependently scrutinized piece of human engineering in the history of humanity.
this is just what i could think of in 5 minuets maby others could add to the list.
Edit * i would like to add as well be for an FEer does. i am well aware that this mission in not a certainty yet but even independent experts admit that this is a technically quite achievable mission well within current and extreme near future technology.