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Hawkings: Survival requires space colonies
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| June 14,2006
| Sylvia Hui
Posted on 06/14/2006 11:55:06 AM PDT by txroadkill
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To: Centurion2000
Wouldn't the distance from the Sun still prevent Mars from being habitable?
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:14:39 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM: The perpetual insulting of common sense.)
To: txroadkill
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:14:46 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: adorno
I'm all for that as long as we leave behind the liberals and communists and "global warming" alarmists and Muslims and French.I think we should send them to Mars to form a "worker's paradise." They can set up a commune where they'll grow martian corn and sing kumbaya in perfect harmony. Guns and Christianity would be outlawed, and the ACLU would govern the socialist judicial agenda.
To: Centurion2000
"WRONG .... Mars can be terraformed fairly quickly."
Sure it can...then the solar wind will blow the new multi-trillion dollar atmoshpere out into deep space along with the promised H2O swamp land these terraformers are proposing.
The one little fact that intellectually dishonest terraformers of Mars are failing to provide is that the core of Mars is solid. What protects the earth from evaporation has been the protective magnetic field shielding us from solar winds.
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:19:36 PM PDT
by
AMHN
To: highimpact
An ACLU run Mars colony would become the next Roanoak colony.
Mars cannot be terraformed unless we could somehow kick start its inert core to produce a magnetosphere.
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:24:07 PM PDT
by
Teflonic
To: txroadkill
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:25:57 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know.)
To: newgeezer
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:26:49 PM PDT
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.)
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To: PatrickHenry
D*mn there goes my taxes...........
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:27:41 PM PDT
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.)
To: RexBeach
Can we just send the Libs? Or, pack 'em all into Mexifornia and Eurabia (along with the RINOs) and start getting this place back to "normal"??
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:29:48 PM PDT
by
Thom Pain
(Supporting the Constitution is NOT right wing. It is centrist.)
To: txroadkill
What does Hawking know, and when did he know it?
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:31:09 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: adorno
I'm all for that as long as we leave behind the liberals and communists and "global warming" alarmists and Muslims and French.
Au contraire, I suggest that we launch the liberals, commies, eco-freaks, etc., and have them colonize the Sun.
To: txroadkill
I think i'll worry about this in my spare time!
To: AMHN
You are right about the solar wind stripping Mars' atmosphere, but you have to realize that it would take millions of years to do so. We only need to worry about the next 10,000 years or so.
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:43:40 PM PDT
by
burzum
(Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.--Adm. Rickover)
To: AMHN
Sure it can...then the solar wind will blow the new multi-trillion dollar atmoshpere out into deep space along with the promised H2O swamp land these terraformers are proposing. Losing an atmosphere would take thousands of years. In the meantime, technology will get better.
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:47:34 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Support Network Infrastructure Defense: Kill BlackHats)
To: frogjerk
Wouldn't the distance from the Sun still prevent Mars from being habitable? At the equator in summer, Mars can get up to 78 degrees. Enough greenhouse gases and it would be a cooler version of Earth.
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:50:04 PM PDT
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Centurion2000
(Support Network Infrastructure Defense: Kill BlackHats)
To: Centurion2000
When I was a kid (we're talking the Jurassic here) I was a Heinlein fanatic. I thought we would have had the Mars colony thing working by now! I am also embarrassed that we did nothing after the Moon stunt.
In fact, at the risk of asounding unpatriotic, most of this astronaut stuff strikes me as suspicious science and engineering. The shuttle should be on a used car lot somewhere, while we get into the heavy duty manned flights from our Moon bases to Mars to set up colonies.
Where do I sign up!
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:50:20 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
( Vote Fraud: The Democrats' Secret Weapon ... Well, secret to the RNC, anyway)
To: Centurion2000
Actually, you're wrong. We THINK we can terraform Mars fairly quickly.
On the other hand, we've never terraformed ANY planet to date.
And, of course, we need the technology and infrastructure to be ABLE to attempt the Terraforming of Mars.
The process appears to be fairly straightforward, but as in any major engineering process, the bugaboos are in the details. . . . and we don't HAVE the details yet.
50 years from now, that will likely change. . .
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:55:09 PM PDT
by
Salgak
(Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
To: Salgak
It'll take 50 years just to figure out who has jurisdiction and how to get the building permits.;o)
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posted on
06/14/2006 12:58:59 PM PDT
by
mbynack
(Retired USAF SMSgt)
To: txroadkill
I think this may be true in the long run. But the long run is about 50,000 years from now, and we've got bigger problems to deal with now.
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