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Why should humans go to Mars?
Frank Stratford ^
| 12/21/09
| Frank Stratford
Posted on 12/21/2009 4:41:59 PM PST by KevinDavis
Why should humans go to Mars? Many reasons for and against have been cited over the years, and many still struggle to see the relevance of this priority. It seems so far out, so detached from life on Earth, and in many ways it is. Mars is physically hundreds of millions of kilometers away. It is colder than the coldest environment on Earth and it has an atmosphereor lack thereofthat would kill you within thirty seconds or do in a most unpleasant fashion. Compared to terrestrial destinations it loses hands down. However, we need to look at Mars in a different context.
(Excerpt) Read more at thespacereview.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: mars; space
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To: KevinDavis
To get away from the Democrats?
To: KevinDavis
Mars isn’t far enough away for some humans to go ...
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:42:43 PM PST
by
x
To: KevinDavis
“Why should humans go to Mars?”
To get away from Liberals, of course, and live free!
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:43:08 PM PST
by
Liberty Ship
("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
To: The SISU kid; Empireoftheatom48; Rio; Iowan; hattend; reader25; july4thfreedomfoundation; ...
For other space news go to: http://www.spacetoday.net
For a list of Private Space Companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:43:15 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(Can't Stop the Signal!)
To: historyrepeatz
You beat me to it. I often tell my granddaughter that I hop someday she’ll be the first President of the Free Republic of Mars.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:45:59 PM PST
by
Argus
(We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
To: KevinDavis
If borrowed government money is involved hell no!
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:46:05 PM PST
by
Dem Guard
To: KevinDavis
"Why should humans go to Mars?"Because we have to get out of the cradle and Mars is the first real step to a galactic presence for humanity.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:48:30 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Obama: The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers)
To: Dem Guard
If borrowed government money is involved hell no!There's always one of your type on every space thread. It gets old really fast.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:50:16 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(ECOMCON)
To: KevinDavis
Robots are great but they don’t do insight or curiosity.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:51:08 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: buccaneer81
this is one of the things they can borrow my money for!!
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:51:51 PM PST
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate taglines but I don't know how.)
To: historyrepeatz
“To get away from the Democrats?....”
Ummmmmm....no. We round up all their sorry socialist/commy butts and send them there so the rest of us can live life, liberty and pursuit of happiness as the Founding Fathers intended. Its our country...not theirs....let them be sent there.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:53:39 PM PST
by
lgjhn23
To: buccaneer81
I always use the Lewis and Clark example of government funded exploration. The benefits of that “waste of money” were great. However we didn’t have a lot of other social programs to deal with at the time.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:54:27 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: VaRepublican; Dem Guard
this is one of the things they can borrow my money for!!Agree 100% The return is huge, starting with jobs.
To: KevinDavis
To get pay-back...
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:55:13 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: KevinDavis
Isn’t NASA main job now to hype hoaxes?
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:55:46 PM PST
by
Sybeck1
(Remember the reason for the season.)
To: KevinDavis
Mine it for precious metals and gems.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:56:49 PM PST
by
umgud
(I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
To: cripplecreek; KevinDavis
The naysayers of manned space exploration are most likely descended from those who in 1867 screamed bloody murder over the $7.2 million dollar purchase of Alaska.
To: KevinDavis
For the unobtanium, of course.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:59:52 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: buccaneer81
I would hope so. It is a heck of a waste of money!
If you want to do this with your private money have at it.
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