Posted on 12/29/2016 11:43:27 AM PST by rlbedfor
President Trump, we need to go to Mars. That is all.
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Space exploration is for morons.
Massive Black Hole sucking up money faster than it can be printed.
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OK.
I saw that in an article on an astronomy site-it made me think of something that looks like a huge lava rock.
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If there were any gain to going to Mars, private ventures would be doing it.
Its a big loser.
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Space exploration is for private enterprise rather than the feds, that's for sure.
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The fact that private money has mostly ignored it speaks massively.
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Giant lava rocks...
Nuh-uh, I saw that movie.
We can send all our liberal populous there!
ROFL!
We are all going to die! In less than 130 years every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead!!!
It’s Bush’s fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.
Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
Those outposts on Mars won't fare any better when the sun goes nova - it is also just a question of time.
We are much better off concentrating on developing technology to detect and alter the trajectory of asteroids (it just takes a little nudge if you do it far enough in advance) than we are trying to colonize Mars.
Yes, Mars is 999 times more like the moon than it is like earth. The desolation is immeasurably less magnificent while the distance is significantly more magnificent.
Yikes! The sun will not go nova - if it even does - for billions of years. Moreover, the Sun going nova is a theoretical possibility, not an actuality. Large astroid strikes are real.
A major a astroid/comet strike could happen at any time from today to several hundred years from now (but likely somewhere around or before 2060 when the Earth is due to pass through a major part of the Taurids debris field - last time it ended the Ice Age and 1000 years later began the Younger Dryas, a period colder than the Ice age)
A nudge? Takes more than that - you’ve been watching too many simulations. Besides, there is no way to know that today’s ‘little nudge’ course change will not create tomorrow’s disaster. Changing the course of an astroid is not something to be undertaken lightly as there is no telling what objects it might encounter on the new course or what might come in from the outer system to hit it.
The worry is not the rocks we can see but those we cannot - that come in sunward with little or no warning - and of which there have been several recently passing between Earth and the Moon on a day or more notice.
Try to think ahead, as if we were to colonize Mars, do you imagine that colonization would end there? There are all the other bodies which could not only be colonized, but be virtually immune from the-billions-of-years-in-the-future-theoretical-sun-gone-nova.
Like I said species survival is too expensive for some here.
Love the look of people with their collective heads in the sand!
Much cheaper that way - no expensive sunglasses to lug around, a predictable but dark environment, and so on.
A very inexpensive way to live, why you never have to look around and worry if that yellow thing behind the ‘bush’ is just your imagination or a ‘hungry lion’ - ignorance is such bliss!
And yes, as you facetiously remarked people die all the time, and so do species. And it was people who looked around which brought all of us the health and medicines to live past 40 ...
Agree. It's not just man undertaking manned missions to Mars that compels some to suddenly make juvenile comments. It doesn't matter to some if it's manned or unmanned exploratory spacecraft that go where no man can. In fact even discussing news or discoveries stemming from earth based observatories etc, will set them off...lol
I personally think a percentage of these anti-science types are simply afraid of the unknown and what might be discovered. ☺
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