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I always had a niggling doubt with the Mars One project. It took me ages to put my finger on it, but it boils down to "If its that simple, why hasn't someone else done it?". Just looking over their website seemed to say to me "We've thought though some of this, but not all of it.". Also the funding model is crap. If the TV deals fall though, or aren't as large as they think they're going to be, the entire program is a bust.
Yeah, the reality TV bit is the fundamental weak link here. I highly doubt that the crew would be okay with having the camera on them at all times during a mission that could have some stressful times in it. Hard to imagine them not just putting a piece of duct tape over the camera when @#%$ really flies, and what tv network will pay this kind of money for that? It would be a borderline inhuman arrangement when you think about it.
On the other hand, if/when NASA does ever get around to flying a real Mars mission, it might be interesting to have the crew do video logs to talk about the mission up to that point (think the "self therapy" sessions in Avatar)