Posted on 06/17/2021 7:53:46 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Go to any Wal Mart below 6000 feet altitude and sit in the parking lot and watch the customers come and go.
You’ll have your answer are Americans too heavy for Mars...
We’re too heavy for everything except the internet and Netflix
Bleedin’ Watney’s Red Barrel!
We aren’t going to Mars. There’s no rational reason.
No. It’ll start wobbling and then careen through the Solar System like a big number 3 pool ball, striking Venus and Earth and eventually careening into Jupiter where it will be swallowed up and the Jovians will get really mad.
Ping.
“It ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.”
Sure beats some of the liberal hellholes. LOL.
And as far as being too heavy for Mars, we could always use the Guam strategy to avoid capsizing.
Lets send the squad
Different joke
“Whitey’s on the moon” quote is from the movie “Hidden Figures”
“The risks are so great, says Metzger’s team, that we should not even attempt human landings on Mars
until we have reliably demonstrated the automated construction of landing pads using robots.”
So let me get this straight, humans are too heavy, but landing a robotic Caterpillar scraper and backhoe is OK.
“They argue that the best place to practise and perfect this critical process is right on our doorstep, on the Moon.”
Seems like an even better place to practice that would be here on earth.
“I’m thinking this mission to Mars is mostly about keeping NASA and related manufacterers solidly employed and in the money for the next three generations. Gotta look out
for # 1., you know.”
You are right. When Apollo ended, many felt the money was better spent on human welfare problems here on earth. It took a while, but now that that crowd has been long “paid off” and institutionalized, time to throw a few stories out there about aliens visiting the earth and the need to go to Mars, ... it’s a multi-decade, billions of dollars ... great gig for selected interests.
I suspect that anyone landing on Mars accepts the fact that they may not be coming back.
“Seems like an even better place to practice that would be here on earth.”
....Seems like we should just cancel practice altogether.
I’m excited about building an outpost on Mars but I agree it should be done first on the moon. Work out the design and logistics, make your mistakes three days from home before trying to do it two years from home.
That, and they need to work out artificial gravity for the sake of the crew on long missions so they aren’t vegetables by the time they get home. They basically know how to do it, they need to do it on the ships traveling back and forth as well as the orbiting stations.
Nah. We’ve always known it would be a one way trip.
And if you go this route, you could have the trillion$ on the books, while now free to spend it in other non-space ways.
Hmmm. That would actually work!!!
Well, I’m too heavy for sure. :-}
Mars needs women, the sequel.
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