After soliciting ideas from scientists, NASA has received around 400 proposals on how to rethink its Martian exploration program. Here are a few of them:
- Offer 3 percent capital-gains tax relief to companies willing to relocate to the southern Martian mountain region
- Fake the whole thing in the Nevada desert
- Have expedition stop by the moon to pick up the moon-mobile and then drive the shit out of it on Mars
- To prove to all of us down here that they really did make it to Mars, they should repaint half the planet blue, or add some stripes maybe
- Drop a little robot on Mars and have it putter around picking up sand until it runs out of power
- Shoot lasers at some stuff
- Begin the Martian colonization modestly by introducing hardy insects and rabbits
- Find some damn Martians already