Experts say man can live on Mars

Reuters ^ | 3/04/04

[jwalsh07]

The women go to Venus. First couple to three wins.

[P.O.E.]

[Ken H]

IOW, it's Adam and Steve vs Madame and Eve.

[Don Joe]

What is the point of going to the moon?

Apart from it being a safer, cheaper, faster test bed for Martian work (housing, life support, etc.), there's all that Helium 3 ripe for the harvest.

[anobjectivist]

For some reason Helium 3 doesn't do it for me because we don't have a fusion plant capable of producing positive energy yet.

safer, cheaper, faster to go there and poke around, but once we're there everything we need to build will have to have materials sent from earth to mars.

It would be cheaper to go from earth to mars then send raw material from mars to the moon. The delta V's required for that is significantly less than those directly from the earth to the moon.

[RightWhale]

What is the point of going to the moon?

It's an excellent platform for beta testing space hardware and software.

[unibrowshift9b20]

can we send all the people who use this phrase: "Lets send {Hillary, Liberals, President Bush, etc., etc., ad infinitum} to Mars." to Mars?

[unibrowshift9b20]

Well, China seems to have caught the vision: They have plans to have a moon base set up by the time people think Fusion will be viable. If we wait until everything is perfect and we have fusion and space elevators and teleporters and ftl drives, it will never happen. Do you think we landed on the moon the first 6 times by waiting until we had everything just right? NO! My TI-83+ probably has more power than their onboard computers did. The whole point of exploration is to go somewhere before anybody else is ready to.

[Queen Jadis]

only the English would understand that pic....

[ItsForTheChildren]

Can we send liberals up there?

Now why do we want to start polluting right off the bat? And, with all the hot air, they'd start talking global warming again.

[RightWhale]

everything we need to build will have to have materials sent from earth to mars.

Not necessarily. Mars has similar mineral resources as earth. If we can mine for iron on earth, we can do the same on Mars. The Mars starter kit will have to be assembled on Mars, but growth from that point on can be done using native resources.

[nmh]

"Now why do we want to start polluting right off the bat? And, with all the hot air, they'd start talking global warming again."

But alteast we'd be pollution free here plus I'd bet the odds are higher that an out of control asteroid would hit them. ;) Then there'd be no more liberal tirades.

[txhurl]

What I want to know is do we NEED to go to Mars or something? Do you people know of some asteroid or such that makes Mars looks GOOD? Whazzup? Come clean.

[KevinDavis]

Why did we need to cross the Atlantic? Why did we need to go over the mountain?

[Doc On The Bay]

YE 'GADS!!---

John McCain, (the "Poster Child" for Alzheimer's Disease)--is the LAST "Astronaut" our nation should Contemplate sending to the Moon or Mars.

HE's TOO OLD!!

BY INCREDIBLE, "GREAT GOOD FORTUNE,"--we Live in a "Time" when the Effects of our Collective Will is a "Force" we MUST "Acknowledge!"