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Posted on 09/15/2009 4:55:19 PM PDT by KevinDavis
I've noticed a debate has begun over whether we should go to the moon again or save our space pennies and try for Mars instead.
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Send Zer0, Pelosi and Reid to Mars.
I say Mars...there is nothing interesting on the Moon...except cheese
Capital- Washington D.C. I sure that freaky
I think we should form a consortium with the Euros, the Japanese, the Chinese and the Indians and do both.
Earth has the engineers and the scientists and the resources to do it all. Others may join ....Australia, Canada to name two. Brazil might want to help
please put me on space ping list.
The Dems wanst all gubmint $ to go to social programs. Turn swords into plowshares, eat seed corn
Is there anything good on cable tonight?
>>Is there anything good on cable tonight?<<
LOL!
Most times, you make me laugh so hard!
Between super volcanoes, super tsunamis, atomic earthquakes, global warming, global cooling, giant asteroids and kudzu, we’d better find a way off this planet.
I don’t see the need to put a human on mars. Lets build a probe with advanced propulsion and send it to the nearest star system.
Getting a propulsion system that can get us to mars inside a week would be a great step in the direction of Alpha Centauri.
Obviously light speed is out of the question so we should strive for 1/8 light speed or 1/4 light speed. Just for starters.
Better to work out your systems 3 days from home before you take them two or three years from home.
Faster, please.
Started NASA from scratch and got to the moon in 11 years with computers that wouldn’t compete with your gameboy. Now we’re stuck in low earth orbit wondering how we can get back to the moon.
V'ger will just come back...and he'll be pissed.
It’s time to go to Mars. We can do it and it needs to be done.
Sorry we have sent enough probes.. I think the Solar System has been probed to death..
I'm not trying to be snide but I would like to know what the need is.
To keep up with the general need of humankind to explore, to push onto the next frontier, etc, etc. That’s the “need”.
it has been proposed by scientists, sci-fi writers and the like that we shoot our waste into the sun....why spoil Mars when we can give that trifecta a warm welcome....
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