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Would sending people to Mars bring Americans together?
Houston Space Examiner ^
| June 24, 2015
| Mark R. Whittington
Posted on 06/24/2015 9:14:32 PM PDT by Marcus
n an op-ed published in Florida Today on Wednesday, Jeff Kottkamp, a former lieutenant governor of Florida, and Rich Ramos, a Florida businessman, proposed a new justification for sending humans to Mars. A Mars program would serve, in their view, as a means to foster national unity of the sort that is rarely achieved outside times of war. Some recent polling data suggests that they may be on to something.
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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: bigelowaerospace; blueorigin; dragon; elonmusk; falcon9; mars; marsrace; mct; moonrace; nasa; nationalunity; spaceexploration; spacerace; spacex
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:14:32 PM PDT
by
Marcus
To: Marcus
Yes. If we sent Obama and the Congressional leadership there on a one-way trip. SCOTUS can tag along.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:16:01 PM PDT
by
peyton randolph
(Hillary Kardashian Clinton - famous for being infamous)
To: Marcus
They're dreaming !
In this present climate......NOTHING is going to "bring Americans together" !
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:16:37 PM PDT
by
nopardons
To: Marcus
bah. 9/11 only united us for about three weeks.
To: peyton randolph
Send em where they came from: hell.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:16:57 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
To: Marcus
Liberals strength is keeping all separated. Liberals run both parties, so no, flinging off to Mars will do nothing of the sort.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:17:13 PM PDT
by
deadrock
(I is someone else.)
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: Marcus
Yes. I nominate Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal.
Wait. Did I misunderstand the question?
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:19:31 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Marcus
What kind of fascist craves national unity?
I want freedom.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:22:42 PM PDT
by
Forgotten Amendments
(Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
Depends whom we send. BFL.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:26:35 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: peyton randolph
Yes. If we sent Obama and the Congressional leadership there on a one-way trip. SCOTUS can tag along.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
You would pull them out of prison to do that?
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:26:41 PM PDT
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
To: hinckley buzzard
bah. 9/11 only united us for about three weeks. Yes, and Hillary was making snide, disrespectful comments when President Bush was addressing Congress. How I dislike that woman!
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:28:02 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
To: Marcus
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:30:01 PM PDT
by
Husker24
To: Marcus
Yeah, cause I remember 1969 when we landed on the moon, the nation was really unified....for about a week.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:30:42 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: Marcus
It might do a lot for actual, nonpolitical science.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:31:57 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Marcus
Would sending people to Mars bring Americans together? If it were Queen Nancy, Court Jester Harry, Dopey Joe, Empress Hillary, and Chairman Obamau sent to Mars, that could bring lots of Americans together.
To: Marcus
Yeah, if you sent all the liberals there.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:33:06 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Marcus
Yes sending all liberals to Mars will bring people together.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:33:15 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(I voted for Mitt. The lesser of 2 evils religious argument put a black nationalist in the W.H.)
To: Marcus
No. It wouldn’t. An open source distributed economy is what we really need.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:33:42 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Baxters over there, Rojos there, and me right in the middle" ("A Fistful of Dollars").)
To: Eccl 10:2
You would pull them out of prison to do that?
Given NASA's track record with manned space vehicles, what are the odds they make it to Mars?
Unless the prison is ADX Florence, I vote for the one-way space flight for them.
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posted on
06/24/2015 9:35:13 PM PDT
by
peyton randolph
(Hillary Kardashian Clinton - famous for being infamous)
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