People
Sikh-American On Short List For
Proposed Colony On Mars
NEWS REPORTS
A Sikh-American is in the running for a plan by a Dutch-based organization to establish a colony on Mars by 2025.
Mars One, the non-profit organization spearheading the project, says Taranjeet Singh Bhatia is among a group of about 100 from which they will select a final 24 people to man the missions.
The current list of 100 has been arrived at by whittling down the original slate of more than 202,000 who applied in 2012.
Taranjeet Singh, 29, is a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (“EECS“), University of Central Florida.
He received his Bachelor of Engineering (2007) in Electronics and Instrumentation from Technical University, Bhopal, and Masters of Science (2013) in Computer Science from University of Central Florida, School of EECS, Orlando, Florida.
His area of interests includes modeling social and cultural environments, human-robot interfaces, and multi-agent systems.
Mars One says the mission will cost about $6 billion and says it can be done using existing technology.
But engineers at Boston-based Massachussets Institute of Technology ("MIT"), who analyzed the feasibility of the mission last year, suggest they'll need new technology to keep humans alive once they get there.
Some have also questioned the ethics of what Mars One is proposing.
February 18, 2015
Conversation about this article
1: Baldev Singh (Bradford, United Kingdom), February 18, 2015, 9:28 PM.
Great news about a Sikh academic reaching for the stars ... specifically, Mars!
2: Harsaran Singh (Indonesia), February 19, 2015, 4:01 AM.
On a lighter note, all the best to S. Taranjeet Singh. Perhaps we will see the Nishan-E-Khalsa flying on Mars in 2025.