Mars One Studying How To Maintain Communications With Mars 24/7 143
braindrainbahrain writes "Mars One, the low-credibility effort to colonize Mars, is at least funding some interesting concept studies for their alleged plan to colonize the red planet. One of the most interesting is the effort to maintain uninterrupted communications with Mars. This is not as trivial as it may sound, as any satellite in Martian orbit will still have to deal with occultations between Mars and Earth due to the Sun. Surrey Satellite Technology will be performing the study."
Identical twins (Score:4, Funny)
Send one twin to mars, the other twin stays on Earth. They telepathically communicate. Oh wait, wrong novel?
What't the point of this? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Quantum Telegraph (Score:4, Funny)
You mean utilize quantum entanglement? Maybe by the time someone is actually ready to go to Mars, they'll have developed the idea far enough to actually do it. Until then: Lasers.
Yes, a laser so powerful it will punch a hole through the sun.