[KevinDavis]

Lets go!

[KevinDavis]

Space Ping! This is the space ping list! Let me know if you want on or off this list!

[jwalsh07]

Send two men, see how the species propagates.

[cynicom]

Glenn, american?? First democrat not American.

[TRY ONE]

"....on sending astronauts to Mars"

Ask Congressbabe Sheila Jackson Lee --- she's the expert"

[hford02]

John Glen's anti-admin tirade called the presidents goal a waste of time and an insult to the decade we've spent building an "international" space station. How
the every time the world gets together on some project
the US has to pickup the check?
Personally, if this happens (a moonbase) then maybe
we can test Heinlein's theory of downhill space warfare
in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

[SCHROLL]

Let's go? Hell with that, when do we load up the Dems starting with the Clintons and bid them bon voyage?

[FoxInSocks]

NASA was developing plans for every known contingency

Gee, how long will that take?

Anyway, it's the unknown ones you have to look out for.

[nmh]

Can we send liberals up there?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Experts say man can live on Mars

Did they say which "man?" I pick Michael Moore and we don't even have to worry about bringing him back or checking to see if he survives.

[CWOJackson]

The perfect place for the free state project. Put Harry Browne on the first ship out.

[In_25_words_or_less]

Experts say man can live on Mars

Good to know.

[anobjectivist]

What is the point of going to the moon?

Aside from being a nice perch for telescopes (especially radio telescopes) is there anything there that will make it easy to set up a moon base in the short term?

From what I understand, the moon is lacking in carbon and other particularly interesting elements that are needed to process the raw materials found there.

This means, that if we actually want to build anything on the moon, we'll have to ship a lot more supplies than we would if we went somewhere else with a more suitable chemistry (Mars).

Am I missing something here that warrants the pressing need to spend a whole bunch of extra energy for not much benefit?

I'm all about going to mars, we could actually build a self-sufficient base there. However, a base on the moon will be dependent upon commerce with Earth, just like the space station, and we know how cute that piece of metal is right now.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Experts say man can live on Mars

They already do...

[philetus]

I vote we let the "experts" go first.

[P.O.E.]

[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?

[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.