http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...umans-one-way-to-Mars-to-colonise-planet.html
I don't know about you, but there are a few people in my life who I would LOVE to send on a one-way trip to Mars. :lol:
Old news - and they don't get more correct over time.
Also, the research paper itself is...well... lets call it dubious.
http://journalofcosmology.com/Mars108.html
Not that I have problems with scientists citing their previous research, but if the majority of the references comes from inside your own team, there is a good reason to doubt proper work being done - these scientists are wearing blinds.
If you remove all papers in the references, that are by Schulze-Makuch or Davies, there is not much left. The two Zubrin books, one by Sagan, one dubious about the world going to an end. Another set are analysis of the Viking results, despite being questionable, since the Viking data had many indications of malfunctions. I would have at least insisted on having rover data or Phoenix data as comparison for a alleged one million dollar paper.
Which makes you then wonder how the two authors managed to get 5 scientists outside their institutes for peer review.
The best finding in their whole paper is the part that translates to "Once we have a mars base there, it will be easier blackmailing politicians for sustaining it, than funding an expensive return mission." Which suggests that politicians will care...if they just wait long enough, the problem of returning astronauts that willingly went on a one-way trip solved itself...