[ambrose]

ping.

[headsonpikes]

Pravda used to tell us that the Russians invented baseball.

[js1138]

These guys invented more stuff than algore.

[ClearCase_guy]

Now I've got Tom Lehrer's "Lobachevsky" song goin' through my head. Those Russians are a funny bunch!

[RightWhale]

There is similar research going on in Canada. There is a simulated Mars base of the Mars Society at Devon Island.

[evets]

"The long-expected space flight will take place on a bright summer, autumn or winter morning of 2005 on the outskirts of Moscow. Astronauts will take their seats, the head of the project will say go and the first in the world history manned expedition to Mars will begin."

[cripplecreek]

ya just cant spin much harder than that.

[Liberal Classic]

That's why it's called the Red Planet.

[Petronski]

Capricornski Adeen

[Argus]

As everyone knows, the Russians also invented the telephone, baseball, and psychokinesis.

[demlosers]

Pravda, the old propaganda mill, likes to reminisce.

[antiRepublicrat]

Sounds familiar.

[Who dat?]

In fact, preparation for a manned flight to Mars started in Russia 30 years ago.

During (or shortly after) WWII the Germans sent a party of 30-something people to colonize Mars. (Launched, IIRC, from their subterranean Antarctic base.) That was according to the self-proclaimed Russian "scientist" that was on Art Bell’s show 15 years ago or so.

I figured he was FOS but decided to play along and sent off for his informational packet on how to construct your own space vehicle. My request was returned with “no such person at this address” stamped on it though...

[NeoCaveman]

Shelia Jackson Lee said people have been to Mars....

[LibWhacker]

A totally brainwashed people. And folks think it ended with the fall of the Soviet Union. God bless 'em.

[Condor51]

''Russians conquered Mars 30 years ago''

[lilylangtree]

Ah, but the Russians didn't have what we have today--sometimes missing now suffering from alzeheimer's machine called Rover. Rover makes geological intellligence gathering a piece of rock (er, cake) when it's working.

[MissCalico]

This is going to sound weird but I was wondering
if it would it be possible to send a frozen cadaver
(human or other primate) on a rover and watch what
happens to it on the surface of Mars under various
conditions and inside various prototype, sealed
space suits.

I know it sounds gruesome and it's probably not possible
to preserve a body that long or prevent the bacterial contamination
NASA is so careful to avoid. Sort of like 2001 Space Odyssey.

[JasonC]

Unfortunately, even the dust and the rocks rebelled...