Humans on Mars? Forget it

LA Times ^ | 04/26/10 | Simon Ramo

[KevinDavis]

Nearly half a century ago, we sent men to the moon because we had to stop the world from thinking that the Soviet Union, having put a man in orbit, had surpassed the United States in science and technology. When Americans walked on the moon, we were back in first place, with the Russians keeping the lead in ballet, caviar and vodka. So we halted continued moon landings.

[Army Air Corps]

Canyon walls and crater rims. There are scores of large craters with walls that would be a great place to start tunneling.

[Grizzled Bear]

Hmmm...signed up February of this year...

Alright, which one of you pro-evo creationist haters created this sock puppet. I mean, Pu-Leeze, I know you think Creationists are stupid; but, no one would possibly believe this one is genuine?

This is lamer than the slack-jawed, mouth-breathing, half-witted comments about the “6000 year old earth,” a comment I’ve only seen posted by evos.

[KevinDavis]

Not me....

[Signalman]

We have no money to blow looking for water on this red hot planet (240 degrees F).

From Wikipedia:

Martian surface temperatures vary from lows of about -87 °C (-124F) during the polar winters to highs of up to 20 °C (68F) in summers. The wide range in temperatures is due to the thin atmosphere which cannot store much solar heat, the low atmospheric pressure, and the low thermal inertia of Martian soil.[98] The planet is also 1.52 times as far from the sun as Earth, resulting in just 43 percent of the amount of sunlight.

[Army Air Corps]

Beg pardon? Careful with the accusations, mate.

[cripplecreek]

The biggest problem I see with mars is the magnetic field problem.

[KevinDavis]

or lack of one..

[rogertarp]

Sounds wonderful doesn’t it? Let’s all go and lay out on the beach by the sea and drink pink panthers.

[KoRn]

Hell, all we need to do is send Schwarzenegger up there to release all of the oxygen from that big mountain.

I saw a documentary on it when I was a kid.

[cripplecreek]

LOL

3 boobed midget hotties.

[Signalman]

Sounds wonderful doesn’t it? Let’s all go and lay out on the beach by the sea and drink pink panthers.

No can do. Although the evidence is overwhelming that Mars did have liquid water on its surface billions of years ago, it no longer does because most of its atmosphere escaped into space, and it's too thin to maintain the pressure needed for liquid water. Although there is frozen water in the polar caps.

[Grizzled Bear]

The comment was “semi-sarcastic.”

I've looked over rogertarp’s posting history. This guy is about as Christian as Carrol O’Conner (actor who played “Archie Bunker”) and twice as Conservative. He plays at acting as a caricature of Conservative Christians.

He's a phony. Don't believe me, go see for yourself.

[cynwoody]

This idiot sounds like he is running to be in Obama’s cabinet. What a waste of skin he is.

He's a bit old for the cabinet.

29 April 1957

[brivette]

I saw that too!

[dr_lew]

One Martin Horky published a treatise in 1610 arguing that the Galilean moons of Jupiter could not exist because, among other reasons, they would serve no purpose. Stillman Drake reports that a supporter of Galileo retorted that they served a very useful purpose, which was to torment Horky and throw the superstitious into confusion.

I have to admit that the images of certain discoveries give me a feeling of existential angst. For example, the surface of the asteroid Eros, with rocky debris strewn on it, unseen and unchanging in its minute detail for millions of years, and the nitrogen geysers Neptune's moon Triton putting on their improbable display ... for who?

"Oh, great star, what would be your fate if you had no one to shine upon" - Thus Spake Zarathustra

[Dallas59]

Oh you people...NASA must reach out to muslims and study climate change...that’s what space is all about!/s

[cripplecreek]

Every new discovery in space just reinforces my belief in God and in my belief that he wants up to go there.

[Army Air Corps]

Ah. Sorry about being a bit snippy.

[Mad Dawgg]

"How can it be real Mars is not in the Bible!!!"

Good point! Wait, Obama is not in the Bible either!

[rogertarp]

It is just not the $1 trillion of printed money and I have grand kids.