They would all die in the spaceship while arguing over whether or not they should disturb the pristine ecology of the planet.
What pristine ecology? Hey, I don't think like those bozos.

Assuming this is a real problem, and a steady-state condition between the plants and people cannot be achieved... How about the CO2 scrubbers that have been in use on submarines for 40 years?

Completely, agree, with the waste of money point.

But they might suffocate...Oh yeah. Good idea.

With his entourage? The price would be ....

astronomical.

Likely the Greenpeace activists... (tho being mars, wouldn't it be Redpeace? ) Expanding on that premise... maybe it would be a great way to get the socialist-leaners to volunteer - Go Red on the Red Planet. If you're not satisfied after being there for... 90 days... you get your money back... heh heh heh...

Individual liberty requires a frontier, like America was, to excel ,away from the confines of government and corporate artificially created limits (and looters.)

Does anyone watch Utopia on TV? Just asking for Comparative Humor purposes.

since the pres and the congress think it is important to go there they should be the crew.

and just what does your non-moronic (?) suggestion of fires do to the CO2 levels in their enclosed bubble?

my first concern regarding morons is actually who would be motivated to spend $6Billion (probably over 2x that in reality) just for the first mission/group. and just whose $6 Billion they are spending/confiscating.

They're doing it because it's there. Historically humans risked all on building boats to cross vast waters and trekking in wagons across huge deserts. Imagine being able to time-travel to, say, the year 3000 and finding Mars terra-formed, and new technologies to speed space flight enabling more people to settle there and to explore more distant possibilities. We have met the extraterrestrials, and they are us.

go for it - please use your nickel$ though

That appears to be the point of the suggestion. :)

2022 is too soon. The project should have been started in the 70's. Logically, a moon colony should be started first because of the greater accessibility to earth. What will be learned there will help make a Mars colony successful.

The technology to vent oxygen separately from Nitrogen doesn't exist...really. Too much oxygen is the problem?

Light a match you MIT academic morons! Burn some of the plant stuffs and make O2 into CO2.

I'm sure there are real problems with the colonization of Mars, but too much oxygen isn't the showstopper.

Then there is the issue of bone loss - 1.8 percent per month. Nothing up to this point - including exercise - has been found to counteract this.

With all the hot air, they wouldn't last 3 days.

Can we move Congress and the President to Mars to pass legislation? Then make sure they ALL have to read, and write a brief report on the legislation before voting.

1) They would know what they are passing or not.
2) Bills would not be 2500 pages long filled with unintelligible jibberish
3) It would get done quickly or we would get to vote in someone new.

1: they should run a full scale/time schedule identical equipment test on earth with success prior to launch.
2: they could use it to raise funds and televise it as well to significant profit.
3: meh, what do I know. I'm just another engineer.
4: some people would pay $$ just to vacation in that simulator.

add to this list other points you think would change this to be viable. :-)

I think Mars One is a pipe dream. If they get the money and the technology working, they're recruiting people for a life sentence in a small cell, conditions that would be inhumane even for horrible criminals.

I hope I'm wrong and that someone tries it. Even if some brave people go and either die or go crazy, it moves science closer to people go building new Gulches or Americas out in space. I'm just not getting my hopes up.

In fact, there would be much more innovation if CEO's were inundated with challenges from clever students.

It's what bright students do.
More productive than stealing the rival's mascot.

Add one more prediction to the list:

"Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
Dr Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London.

GIGO on display.

Why are they doing this? I bet thirty days in someone accuses them of causing global warming...or is it climate change...