Mars Society flim flam
If anyone thinks this is real science - they need a psychiatrist desperately:
http://shockandawe.us/archives/Science/020323a.htm
Life Inside Tall Tin Can in Utah Is All Mars
BLAINE HARDEN . NY Times . 23 march 2002
"They go outside in white canvas space suits trimmed in duct tape. Their helmets are made from plastic light fixtures and white bullet-shaped trash-can lids. In their habitation module (the thing that looks like a silo), they sit with their laptops late into the cold desert night, typing up reports of simulated Mars disasters."
So that's why they charge their guest speakers $350.00 each? To play spaceman in the Utah desert? Talk about trekkie mentality!
BarryD.