{"id":295568,"date":"2019-02-11T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=295568"},"modified":"2019-02-11T17:57:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:57:05","slug":"the-mars-one-project-has-been-declared-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/295568-the-mars-one-project-has-been-declared-bankrupt.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mars One project has been declared bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ambitious Mars One project, which wanted to take people to the &#8220;red planet&#8221;, has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bs.chregister.ch\/cr-portal\/auszug\/auszug.xhtml?uid=CHE-375.837.130#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>declared bankrupt<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp came up with the idea, but failed to find the necessary funding to keep the project going.<\/p>\n<p>The Mars One project consisted of the non-profit Mars One Foundation and the Mars One Ventures business.<\/p>\n<p>The latter was declared bankrupt in Switzerland on 15 January, at which point it was reportedly valued at $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Lansdorp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/02\/11\/mars-one-is-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>told Engadget<\/strong><\/a> that the Mars One Foundation is still operating, but could not do anything of note without additional investment.<\/p>\n<p>Lansdorp&#8217;s Mars dream is not dead, however, as he claims to be in talks with various parties to &#8220;find a solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Mars One project has been criticised in the past, with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2014\/technical-feasibility-mars-one-1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>researchers at MIT<\/strong><\/a> suggesting that Lansdorp&#8217;s project would result in the deaths of those who traveled to Mars.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/295512-why-load-shedding-is-back.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why load-shedding is back<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp came up with the Mars One project, but failed to find the necessary funding to keep the idea going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":94865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[28881,23169,28988],"class_list":["post-295568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-bas-lansdorp","tag-mars-one","tag-mars-one-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295572,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295568\/revisions\/295572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}