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I honestly think the guy from Oatmeal carries so much weigh he could generate maybe several million dollars for a cause. If he did a couple of comics about the

• ck2 14y ago
  Not Mars - Titan, moon of two planets out, Saturn. The one with nitrogen atmosphere, methane lakes, rain and hurricanes. Way, way more interesting than Mars in some ways.
  • tesseract 14y ago
    And speaking of those methane lakes, the lander was designed as a boat that would float around in one of them. To me that seems pretty interesting from an engineering point of view, not to mention Titan being a pretty cool place from a scientific perspective.
• mnicole 14y ago
  Maybe I'm a skeptic, but I don't think people are going to keep funneling money because of who he is. His fanbase can only allocate so much or deal with so many outreaches and I would wager they only did this one because it was hot off the heels of a very successful campaign. When you know the project is going to succeed because of auto-generated hype and press, it's a lot easier to press submit. Something space-related, while Curiosity is still fresh in people's minds, might work, but I don't think he can keep getting these numbers regularly. I'd like to be wrong, though.