[DIYbio] Re: CyanoKnights - Cyanos on Mars - Experiment piggybac at MarsOnemission

Several people are suggesting just approaching the space mission of one country or another and asking for our project to fly. I am afraid it really doesn't work that way. Space agencies, including NASA are very, very protective, and if you tell them you want to design project X for them, then they will not even read your proposal and tell you to get lost. Josiah, you suggested sending my students to NASA for internships. Sadly, if you are not a US citizen, then you are not even allowed to apply to NASA (there are exceptions, but by and large, most internships are not available to people form another country). ESA is a lot smaller organization, and the very few opportunities they provide to engage students are swamped by applicants. So casually mentioning that we could just apply to some proper organization and build our greenhouse does not work I am afraid - hence the number of projects in this competition.

@Josiah:
I don't know why you are suddenly so agressive and wanting to start a flame war. Personal attacks are also unnecessary. When you write "do some research, Geesh" it tells me that you are just keen on insulting others, nothing more. I don't know who hurt you, if it was me then I apologies, I did not mean to offend you. Please calm down.

You wrote a number of questions in your previous e-mail about our project, but with all respect, they show that you haven't even read our 1 page project description. Please do so, all the basics are explained in our webpage and the Mars One page. Have a look here:
www.lettuceonmars.com
http://www.mars-one.com/

Also keep in mind that we are group of students working on this project for 3 months. This includes recruiting team members, and putting together the most basic documents about the project. Don't expect milliamps today. The outline of our project has been approved by teachers at our university and by members of UKSA.

I am very happy to answer future questions you might have, but if you could be a bit more respectful and friendly in you attitude, then we could have a pleasant, constructive conversation over this, which I would very much enjoy. I would like to state again that if I offended you then it was not on purpose, and I am very sorry if I did.

On Thursday, 18 December 2014 22:56:16 UTC, Mega [Andreas Stuermer] wrote:

https://community.mars-one.com/projects/cyano-knights1

Very interesting. Cultivating Cyanos on Mars. Though this is only one of 10 proposed piggybac missions and one will be on board...