Perhaps we should send the Sierra Club to Mars as an advanced scouting party....without space suits.![](http://www.6emedimension.net/paralleles/images/mars.jpg")
Posted on 12/07/2004 1:13:36 PM PST by add925
A set of seven 'planetary parks' have been proposed for the conservation of the martian environment by two European scientists. Each of the parks contain representative features of the landscape on Mars...
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Perhaps we should send the Sierra Club to Mars as an advanced scouting party....without space suits.
Give them time. They will soon discover several species of Martian spotted owls and snail darters.
Europe has gone over the edge and isn't coming back.
Perfect example of the old adage "getting the cart before the horse."
LOL BTTT
Well, I guess you gotta park the mining machines somewhere.
Is the moon an international property?
What about Mars?
Who "owns" these planets?
I just hope NASA doesn't hear about these proposed Planetary Parks, or they'll jump right in.....Sh*#!...now I've done it.
Liberals will tell you they, I mean, all of Humanity, does. I say first come, first served.
US Forest Service already manages a park on the moon. A park is fine, but not if it prohibits all development of resources.
This points out that in spite of the UN Treaty on Outer Space, or because of signing it, we have asserted sovereignty over everything in space, that is, the entire universe.
There is no international ownership, but there are overlapping national claims. We have claimed sovereignty over everything.
A nuke might do it. Or not. We don't know that there isn't life there now.
Probably an OK thing to do unless someone/something challenges us "somewhere out there".
That's very discriminatory.
Don't the Martians have the right to their own planet?
This smacks of Manifest Destiny and is specism.
(Yeah, you can learn the left-lingo pretty fast.)
Means nothing. Bubblegum for the mind.
LOL good one.
Signing the Treaty was an assertion of sovereignty. If someone else is already out there someplace, we could apply our famous diplomatic techniques to deal with them when the time comes.
A limited right would probably be granted. If they are capable of asserting a right on their own, more power to them.
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