Friday, 16 August 2013

Pascal Programming Lessons-Part 2-Using Free Pascal

            In this part we'll be setting up Lazarus and learning to use it and all it's functions and FPC which is not so complicated to set up, I'll start with Lazarus. I think you all know how to install it, I provided you with the download link in the first part.

            When you open Lazarus (I have no idea wha happens the first time, it was a long time ago) I think a new appplication is already started. If it is go to file New... and then a window will open asking you what do you wan to start. Pictures:



            Now to explain the things in these pictures. I'll skip new unit and form because that is too complicated to explain to begginers in Pascal and programming. I told you to go to New... because there you can choose to start a non-graphical program which is named Program, unlike Application which is a graphical Pascal program which we will cover later. Right now the only thing that is important is for you to know how to start a new non-graphical program in order to study with me and practice on your own. This is where we will start our journey. On the end of each lesson I'll give you a few excercise so you can brush up on your skills. I won't cover saving, everyone knows how to save.

            Once you select Program and click OK in the New ... window you should see this:

Delete all of it we don't need that right now. After you deleted that, I am happy to say now you know how to start making a Pascal program in Lazarus.

Next on FPC, in the previous lesson I provided a link. Once you download it, install and there should be an icon on the desktop to open it. Once you open it a small window will appear you can modify the size by clicking right click on the icon, properties and mess with the things there. I won't cover it here. anyway you should see something llike this:


It's very easy to use, to start a new program in the directory you want, first you'll have to change it. To do that go to file Change dir.... and once you chose a directory, in the same menu click on new. I am happy to say that you know how to make a Pascal program in FPC. That is it for this lesson, if it can even be called one.
In the next part I'll start with the real thing.

Friday, 9 August 2013

Robert Johnson - 75 Years of Myth

            Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues, died an untimely death 75 years ago. Dandy Ducks are remembering the great bluesman with this article, written as a modest attempt to introduce you to his lasting musical heritage.



            Robert Johnson is the central figure of blues history and one of the most important 20th century artists. His name resounds among the musicians all around the world. If you are fan of The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin or many other classic rock bands (without mentioning virtually every post-1930's blues player), you'll find out that he made a vast musical impact on their work and still remains a great influence on aspiring oncoming and current musicians. Also, he's one of the first to enter the so-called “27 Club“; he was born 1911 and died 27 years later, on August 16th, 1938.

            His life was surrounded in mystery and myth. The story tells that one midnight at crossroad Robert Johnson gave his guitar to the Devil. Devil tuned it and played a few songs, then returned it to Johnson, bestowing him a guitar mastery in exchange for his soul. Upon listening to his music, his eerie voice and a spine-tingling guitar for the first time, you might easily suggest his music is coming from some other world. As digging deeper will prove nothing other than how great talent and musicianship stood behind him, discovering his musical opus can be highly rewarding.

            Importance of his music lies not only in his astonishing technique but in a way of delivering old and familiar blues tunes. He gathered useful knowledge from his predecessors and renowned contemporaries, compiled numerous guitar figures and techniques and draw the best out of it. That's how Sweet Home Chicago is based on a common melody of Scrapper Blackwell's Kokomo Blues or how Love In Vain Blues borrows its chord structure from Leroy Carr's When the Sun Goes Down, yet Johnson's rendition feels like reinventing these tunes with the undeniable alluring quality and artistry.


One of the only two extant Johnson's photographs (or, maybe, there is a third one?)

            Johnson recorded just 29 songs, every one of them in two different versions, except Milkcow's Calf Blues which was recorded three times. That was a common practice at the time as the producers needed backup recordings in case of technical problems with the “choice number  1“, version chosen for the release. Or sometimes it was just needed to improve the song quality a bit.

            Unfortunately, 17 of total of 59 recordings still remain lost. Metal masters of 8 recordings are reported to be destroyed and donated to the army on the government's appeal during the WWII copper shortage in the United States. Still, there is no clue about the fortune of the remaining 9 masters. They could have been destroyed forever or they could still be hidden in someone's private collection. That was the case with the first take of Traveling Riverside Blues which was considered lost until it was discovered in the late 1990's.

            Songs were recorded in two sessions. The first session was held in November 1936, in San Antonio, during the course of three days. Johnson stood alone behind the microphone with a guitar and made some of his greatest recordings there: Sweet Home Chicago, Terraplane Blues, Come On In My Kitchen, Cross Road Blues etc. Terraplane Blues was a hit among contemporary audience and it remained his best-selling single record.




            The second session was held half a year later, in June 1937, in Dallas, in two days. Johnson performed his magic once again with the guitar and the voice only. This session provided a significant addition to his songbook: Love In Vain Blues, Stones In My Passway and Stop Breakin' Down Blues became favourites during the blues revival and rock-and-roll era in the late 50' and 60's. Me and the Devil Blues and Hellhound On My Trail helped spreading Robert Johnson myth with its mystical lyrical imagery.

I got to keep moving, I got to keep moving
Blues falling down like hail, blues falling down like hail
And the day keeps on remindin' me, there's a hellhound on my trail


His lyrics have often been overlooked but, nevertheless, stirred the imagination of many.


            Robert Johnson died just a year later. Infamous ladies' man he was, one jealous husband had poured poison in his whiskey. He suffered illness for three days as his condition had worsened and medical state complicated. He died in the age of 27, leaving behind an invaluable contribution to future generations of musicians and listeners.


A brief history of Robert Johnson's releases


            First collection of Robert Johnson's material was released in 1961 on the LP called The King of the Delta Blues Singers. Interestingly, it made a great commercial success in Europe. It raised interest in blues primarily among British bands who incorporated it into the newly born, popular musical genres. Second volume of the set was released in 1970 to satisfy their hunger for more Robert Johnson's songs.

            The Complete Recordings album was finally released in 1990 and it was introduced to and influenced a whole new generation of artists and musicians; it also gained wide public interest and reached Gold status in no time.


The Centennial Collection will certainly please your appetite for great music 

            Complete remastering was done to commemorate Johnson's 100th birthday with The Complete Recordings - The Centennial Collection which was released in 2011. The first disc presents all surviving material from the San Antonio session with the second versions being included as bonus tracks. The second disc covers Dallas session likewise. The album is accompanied with the extensive booklet which contains a short biography of Robert Johnson and an informative text about the history of Johnson's releases.

            Remasters were done by Steven Lasker, using the state-of-the-art technology and equipment and is the best one could ask for at the moment. What remains is only the popular controversy about the speed of the original recordings. Vocalion Records who originaly published Johnson's recordings in 1930's were notorious for speeding up the compositions up to 25% so they could fit on the record. The result was that the sound was higher pitched than the natural recording. It still isn't confirmed was that the case with Robert Johnson's material and all official releases still contain songs as they were processed for the initial release.


            Robert Johnson's life has been extensively studied and his music enjoyed for more than 75 years but he still remains almost a mythical figure; it is a treatment reserved only for the truly great ones.

Hal


"When the train, it left the station
with two lights on behind
Well, the blue light was my blues
and the red light was my mind"

- Robert Johnson, Love In Vain Blues

Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Programming Lessons-Pascal-Part1-Introduction

            Well, time to learn you guys programming! I won't say it's easy and that you'll do it in no time! These lessons are made for people that have no experience in Pascal, if you have some you can skim through until you come across something you don't know. First of all I have a lot of experience in programming, I've been programming in pascal for about three years already and lately I've been studying Unity (game engine) so that when the time comes, I'll guide you guys into making a game (yes you've heard it). First of all I have to tell you that it will be hard, belive me. At first I was so optimistic that I'll learn programming and make games in a year or so, I was wrong and the only thing that kept me going was the thought that I'll make a game, right now I'm making a game and it's not easy. My point is: if you don't have any experience in programming, don't expect to be making a game in a year, unless you spend all the days in the year studying and excersing programming (I don't think anyone will study the whole year), but don't be discouraged, once you learn Pascal you'll be able to learn other languages in a day or so (every language has something specific about it). Why Pascal, because it's a programming language made for studying. I recommend that you download Free Pascal, in the next part I'll cover the basics in working with it, otherwise download Lazarus, a free pascal IDE which is very good sometimes, but also not so good for some things.

To download Lazarus: click here.
To download Free Pascal also known as FPC: click here.

            There's a funny thing, I wasn't planning to do these lessons at all, but my friends encouraged me because they're interested in programming and making games (say thanks to them).

            LET US START! Finally. Well since this is an introduction, for the finish I'll show you an example of a Pascal program:

program example;
uses crt;
var
   x,y:integer;
   z:integer;
begin
   readln(x);
   y:=5;
   z:=x+y;
   writeln(z);
end.

            That's it for the first part. Be patient the next part is not that far away!
Makrokrama

Thursday, 1 August 2013

The Wall Live - Two Concerts Review

A personal account of The Wall Live 2011 and 2013 shows in Zagreb and in Split.

Part 2 - where it gets really loud!





            In 2010, The Wall Tour was announced. And I felt dissapointed. The nearest show was in Budapest, 500 km away, and it was too expensive to travel that far just to see the concert. I examined every solution and eventually gave up. It was only few weeks later that I got the most wonderful news. The Wall was going to be performed in Zagreb, the capital city of my country, Croatia! I bought the tickets the first day they were put on market and then all I could do was wait.

            (There's a funny anecdote about me and my cousin waiting at 6 o'clock in the morning for the shop to open, when the tickets were to be put on sale. We believed there was going to be a rush for the tickets so we got there as soon was possible. Of course, it turned out we were the only ones and after an hour spent before the locked door we realised that even the true fans decided not to hurry and to sleep a little longer.)

             The concert took place on 13th April 2011. I had to wait for almost eight months but I was finally there: Arena Zagreb, concert venue and an ocassional hockey rink. Cardboard wall was half-built across the stage (it was meant to be completed during the show), the musical instruments were prepared and tuned and we could see the gigantic oval-shaped screen above the stage.

            At last, the lights were dimmed out and the show was about to begin. It commenced with the famous dialogue from the 1960' movie Spartacus („I am Spartacus!“,  „No! I am Spartacus!“…) roaring from the loudspeakers that made it seemed like the sound was coming from everywhere around. It silenced and wistful sound of trumpet began to play Outside the Wall melody. A few measures. And suddenly, it got loud!

            The first chord of In the Flesh? exploded sinchronizingly with the thunderous fireworks. Waters made his appearance during the instrumental introduction. Two men dressed like soldiers put on him a leather jacket and black glasses making him look like a fascist dictator, the scene that will be repeated much later in the storyline. He grabbed the microphone and fired up the audience!


So ya
Thought ya
Might like to go to the show.
To feel the warm thrill of confusion
That space cadet glow.

            I began shaking with excitement with the very first chord and when Waters came on stage I was incapable to move or to look away. It was a feeling that I would never forget, usually felt in the most rare moments of genuine excitement. I couldn't stop shaking until Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, almost half an hour into the show. And the highlights of concert were yet to come. 

            Mother gave a chance to an "experiment in time travel". It was performed in synchronization with Waters' 1980 live footage of the song at the Earls Court, screened on the wall. Very exciting rendition of Empty spaces was accompanied with Gerald Scarfe's animated sequences from the movie, followed by Young Lust, One of my Turns and Don't Leave Me Now before the wall was finally completed during the instrumental medley of Last Few Bricks. Waters peeped out the last empty space, singing Goodbye Cruel World and falling into isolation behind the wall while the last brick was being put into place, marking the end of the first part of the show.


"Mother, should I trust the government?  NO FUCKING WAY!"

            During the intermission, while we were ecstaticly retailing the experience, photographs of fallen soldiers in wars during the last and the current century appeared and exchanged on the wall. Waters invited people from all over the world to send the photographs of their ancestors or the fallen loved ones and he used them to accent the antiwar message of The Wall. Remember that he never met his father who died at Anzio in Italy in 1944, during the Second World War which is a recurring theme in his work and his certain obsession.

            Hey You opened the second part of the show. The band played behind the wall and therefore could not be seen. The show continued with Waters singing Is There Anybody Out There? and Nobody Home from inside the holes in the wall. Emotional peak was certainly achieved with songs Vera and Bring the Boys Back Home. They were accompanied with touching and heartbreaking videos of starving children in Africa and, the most notably, the video of young girl crying out of happiness while her father  unexpectably returned from the army.


Bring the boys back home.

            Comfortably Numb announced the final part of the concert. Whole audience was exhilarated when spotlight revealed guitarist on the top of the wall as he began playing the famous solo, originally conceived by David Gilmour. Waters ran from one side of the stage to the other greeting the audience. Solo ended with unanimous applause and wild approval.

            The band showed up in front of the wall with their instruments. They were dressed as soldiers and Waters wore the same leather jacket and black glasses as at the very beggining of the concert, turning into imaginary fascist dictator once again. The peak of the excitation was In The Flesh reprise when  „ soldiers“ handed Waters a machine gun and he began shooting the audience in every direction.  Run Like Hell and Waiting for the Worms followed the fascist narrative in the same direction when the show finally reached the climax with The Trial. Waters, now alone on the stage, sang passionately, now dramatizing the character's desperation while putting himself on the trial and accepting his guilt. The wall could be torn down at last! 


"Since my friend you have revealed your deepest fear
I sentence you to be exposed before your peers"


            The wall collapsed and the band walked out on the stage playing the last song with Waters on the trumpet. During the song, he introduced the members of the band as they were leaving the stage, waving to the audience. Waters left last with the greatest applause and the show was over. I left the arena with the precious memory and unforgettable experience. And with sadness in the heart because it was over and I was left again to the challenges of my ordinary life. For awhile, at least.

            Waters continued touring Europe and later Australia and South America. Insisting on that as many people as possible can see the show and heed its messages he announced another American and European tour with one, but great, difference. Previous shows were all performed indoors while the upcoming tour was going to be adjusted as a stadium, open-air event. It's the way Waters insisted was the best fitting for his creation.

            I was quite surprised when I saw another Croatian city on the list of proposed concerts. The show was due 23rd July 2013 at Poljud stadium in Split. Though tickets were much cheaper than they were for the show in Zagreb, the distance I would have to travel was three times greater. And maybe, I just didn't want to spoil the memory of the previous concert; it was an extraordinary experience and I felt that the part of the magic lies in seeing it only once. But resistance was in vain…

            While I was indecisive about whether to go or not to go, Croatia entered the European Union and in symbol of celebration all tickets for the international concerts were 50% off for a week. I bought a ticket for The Wall at the last minute. And I got a Fan Pit ticket which meant I was going to see the show from the one of the very first rows!

            And, indeed, the show was fabulous. It was pretty much the same, only the antiwar message was emphasised, especially by adding a new song to the setlist. The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes was written during the 2011 tour and performed from 11th July the same year onwards. It is a coda to Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 and it repeats its chorus in a slower tempo. Lyrically it covers a real story about a Brazilian tourist in London who was shot in the head eight times by the police because they had identified him as a terrorist. Nor the government nor the police has yet admitted their mistake and apologized. Waters explained the event with these mighty words: "Giving governments, and especially the police, too much power is a slippery slope to tyranny!"


            There were no other notable additions to the show which was equally impeccable and exciting as the first time. It lacked only those eight months of impatience and that shaking of an almost a childish excitement which made the Zagreb show so unique. Although I found a constant and blisfull smile on my face during Run Like Hell in Split while unanimously clapping with the audience rhythmicly with the song's beat; it is equally precious. And Roger Waters was not more than 10 meters before me! With the brimfull stadium behind and the wall right before me, the show surely had an unearthly quality. (Waters lauded the audience reporting that the band told him it was the first time they could hear the crowd singing through the wall.)


Poljud stadium before the concert.

            So, that's all for my The Wall exploits. I didn't retail it minutely as those who were present to any concert of the tour know what was it all about and they can relive it once again in their minds, with a sweet touch of nostalgia; for those who are yet to see it this is less than a slight portion of what they are going to experience, just an attempt to make their spines tingle while impatience's consuming them; for those who had no opportunity to attend the show this review was a stimulus to enjoy the music and to try to understand its messages. It isn't the concert what matters, it is how many people the music has changed or made them think about their lives and the world that's surrounding them.

            And for my sake, this was a gentle remembrance of a wonderful experience which may fade a bit, but the scale of its impact will not ever cease.

Hal

            If you want to find out more about The Wall and its live performances check out Part 1 of the article.

            And if you have never heard about The Wall but you got interested, go ahead and listen to it! It will certainly enrich your musical knowledge. Also, I suggest you watching Pink Floyd - The Wall movie for fuller experience. Maybe you even still have a chance to see the concert; Roger Waters is still touring and he may come somewhere near your hometown!

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Mars One Mission-Final

In this part also the final one, I'll go into much more details about Mars One, more details about things from the first part, training program and so on in this Mars One Final Part.

                In the first part I mentioned a training and the selection program. In order to even apply for the Mars One Mission you'll need to sign up on their page: https://apply.mars-one.com/ , in order to apply you need to be at least 18 years old, because that is the age by which children become legal adults in most countries around the globe and Mars One believes it is important that applicants who enter the selection program are capable of entering into a legal contract without the need of others. After the selection, if you were selected, they'll start creating groups by the applications you sent them and creating the teams as best as possible so you get along together as you will have to entrust your life to them and the other way around. There will be a few stages in which your group will be tested to see if you're the most skilled to be the first one on Mars, also you can back out anytime you want, the group will be assigned a new member to fill up your space and they'll need to do all the test from the beggining. The part for the audience comes after they've selected groups that can go to Mars, the world will then vote and decide which one will go first.


                What are the chances of success? Well it's a hard question to answer... Since there are a lot of dangers and anything can go wrong at any time. Mars One estimates that the chances are 87,5%, how did they get there? They took NASA's attempts to land there, NASA has tried landing on Mars 8 times, of all the tries only one failed to land, but the chances increase as there will be 8 low-risk cargo missions to Mars before the group is launched, how do the chances increase? With each landing they get valuable information and upgrade the landing system, which will result in a better landing and fewer failures. 

               So how will the group live on Mars? In order to answer that question I'll need to explain a lot of things. Firstly, about water, on Mars water can be extracted from the soil (it's not some kind of a pumping station like oil rigs or something like that), the procedure is very simple actually. Before the group arrives the rover will select the location for the settlement based on the soil analysis. When the group arrives the rover will deposit the soil into a water extractor in the life support units, the water extractor then heats the soil until the water evaporates. The evaporated water will be condensed and stored. About 1500 of reserve water will be stored in each life support unit. Oxygen will be produced from the water. It has all been calculated so that even in the dust storm, there will be production, but it will be limited, as well as the power. On the other hand food will be produced in portable high-tech greenhouses (also known as PlantLab). Each inhabitant will have about 250 m^3 and they will have as much comfort as they want.


              All in all this is a well prepared mission, there are already a lot of applications sent (about 70000 I think, but don't hold my word for it) and I'm sure as hell that I'll be sending one as well.



Some fun facts:
-astronauts will recycle everything, water will be filtered as much as it can be, but the unprocessable water will be thrown away;
-the government on Mars will be a lot different at the beggining as only one person will decide (the leader), but later the people in the settelment will have to decide which type of goverment will they have, Mars One will not order them to have a specific one, on the contrary Mars One will provide them with a database on each goverment system and then they will decide which one to implement;
-they will all be able to have children up there, but it is not advisable until the medical equipment comes, and the food for the baby is able to be produced as well.
Makrokrama

Friday, 26 July 2013

The Wall Live - a Concert Experience

A few thoughts on Pink Floyd's 1979 rock-opera, focusing on personal experience of Roger Waters' 2011 and 2013 The Wall tour.

Part 1 – a short, informative introduction



            The Wall is Pink Floyd's conceptual, double album released in 1979. The concept is conceived in its entirety by Roger Waters, the bassist, vocalist and lyricist of the group. He wrote all 26 songs on the album, three in collaboration with guitarist David Gilmour (those three being Young Lust, Run Like Hell and Comfortably Numb with its famous guitar solo) and one with Bob Ezrin (The Trial, orchestral epic that concludes the album).

            The narrative of the album and the 1980 movie of the same name scrypted by Waters follows the story of Mr. Pink Floyd, the son of fallen WWII soldier whom he never met. He gradually falls into madness, while society he grews up in builds metaphorical wall around him, people he lives with forming bricks in it; those are his overprotective mother, school system and abusive teacher, wife, pressure of being a rock star, etc. The character is based on Waters and partly on Syd Barrett, the founder of the band, who left them infamously due to his mental state induced by the extensive use of drugs.

            (I have no need to dig deeper into the storyline or into the meaning of it now; there's a fair deal of analizing texts on the Internet you can study and I'll probably write about it in some of the following articles. Hereafter I'm going to focus on the live rendition of The Wall, the 1980-1981 tour and especially on 2011 and 2013 tours since I have attended two associated concerts.)



            Live installation of the album had always been imagined as a spectacle presenting the whole story as a spectacular stage event with almost a cathartic effect on audience. The idea was to build the 12 meters high cardboard brick wall across the stage which was being completed during the show just to be torn down in the very end, symbolizing the protagonists liberation and acceptance of his guilt.

            The 1980-81 tour was limited only to 4 cities and 31 shows due to the great financial expenses. The group eventually lost money, save the keyboardist Richard Wright who wasn't the official member of Pink Floyd at that time for he had an argue with Waters during the making of the album. He was payed as an ordinary backing musician so he didn't have to suffer the expenses of the production. The idea of expanding the tour to more cities was, understandably, rejected. The Wall was resurrected for a show in 1990 in Berlin by Waters, commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some songs, although, became live standards both for Pink Floyd and Roger Waters', who left the band in 1985.


The Wall live in Berlin 1990 - Comfortably Numb, with The Band and Van Morrison as guests

            Hopefully, technology has made a great progress since 1981 (ask Makrokrama, my blogging partner, about it), already enabling Pink Floyd's 1990's concerts to be a spectacular experience. But it was much less expensive and they made one of the greatest profits ever from a tour despite large stage sets, fireworks, grandiose light and other special effects.

            So, no wonder the musical sensation of the year 2010 was the another resurrection of The Wall, this time as a solo Roger Waters tour covering 56 concerts across the North America and 64 across the Europe. It was rumored to be one of the greatest concert experiences ever to be put on stage, a worthy successor to the 1980 original tour. Can you imagine my excitement when the show in my country was announced? In Zagreb, Croatia, just a bit more than 150 km away from my hometown.


Hal
                                         
            For a more personal account of the concert check out the Dandy Ducks blogsite regularly and find out why Roger Waters' The Wall Tour is the greatest concert experience ever to be put on stage, at least for a 15 year old boy who found The Wall to be his musical inspiration.


            While waiting for it, I recommend you listen to The Wall album and watch a movie for deeper understanding. For old fans and those who are familiar with this masterpiece I suggest checking out this great site I stumbled upon: http://www.thewallanalysis.com/main/ A wonderful analysis of the story! 
            Feel free to send us your thoughts about The Wall!


Thursday, 25 July 2013

Mars One Mission-Introduction


What is Mars One? What kind of mission it's leading? What are the chances? Why Mars One from all the other missions? ... and a lot more questions about it ansewered in About Mars One Part 1. Read on if you're interested.

            Mars One Foundation is a non-for-profit organisation which mission is to establish a first independent settlement on Mars without the need for resources from Earth. The technology needed for the settlement is already available from industry leaders world-wide. They plan to fund it by involving the whole world as the audience, as the training and the selection program will be broadcasted and everyone will be able to vote for their favorite group.

            What group? The group of four people which will be trained in almost everything possible. Why just four and not more? Because four people is the lowest possible amount of people to cover a variety of skills and specializations, if they were to send more, they would need to send an even larger rocket to Mars which costs more, is harder to land and control. The group needs to be physically and mentally prepared for the trip since they will travel in the rocket for seven months (yea, you read it correctly). When they land they will still be 200% stronger than needed, what do I mean with that? If you live in a non-gravity space your muscles will not be under any kind of pressure and they will lose their integrity and strength, that's why astronauts that are in a space station need to train daily in the gym up there. Since Mars has 32% of the gravity on the Earth even if they lose some strength, they will still be much stronger than needed.

            The whole mission to put the first four people on the Mars costs six billion dollars. Woah, that is a lot, well of course it is; just imagine how much money costs 1 rocket to Mars and they will send about five before the first group of people. The technology involved costs a lot. About the technology, there will be a few things: Launcher, Mars Transit Vehicle, Lander which will be used for five functions (Life Support Unit, Supply Unit, Living Unit, Human Lander and Rover Lander), Rover, Mars Suite and a Communications System.

            If you ask me, it is an extraoridanary expedition, although they might never return to Earth or die while trying to land, there are a lot of dangers, but if you ask me they are worth taking in order to be one of the first people on Mars. In the next chapters of Mars One Mission about which I'm writing about I'll go into much more details.

You can find the final part here:http://dandyducks.blogspot.com/2013/07/mars-one-mission-final.html

Makrokrama