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A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors, officials announced this week.Read the rest of the article here
Mars One plans to fund most of its ambitious activities via a global reality-TV media event, which will follow the mission from the selection of astronauts through their first years on the Red Planet. But the sponsorship money is important, helping the company — which had been self-funded for the last 18 months — get to that point, officials said Wednesday (Aug. 29).
Cory O’Brien, a San Francisco-based blogger, got his hands on one tonight and tweeted
out that picture. He also notes
that, “Google Phone = iPhone + a little extra screen and a scroll wheel. Great touch screen, and Android.”
As you can see, the Google Phone, which is apparently being called the “Nexus One” (for more on that, see here), does look exactly like the HTC Passion
, which everyone was including in their posts earlier. You’ll also notice that there’s a key difference: It’s not HTC-branded at all.