Posted on 12/13/2004 7:35:19 PM PST by KevinDavis
Humanity, and the ever-shrinking Earth, needs a resolute, rigorous, and inspirational goal that will bind consciousness, ideals, and nations by putting humanity on a positive path for the future. Placing humans on the surface of Mars is the only goal that humans are able to initiate that is intrinsically visionary and motivating, and the only feat and event that can instill such global inspiration. With the continued exceptional success of last two Earthly emissaries, the Mars Exploration Rovers, and the prospect of a fresh exploration initiative growing inside NASA, Mars is once again in the limelight. These efforts follow on the heels of several successful programs including Mariner, Viking, Pathfinder, and the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey platforms that are themselves still operating in orbit around the planet.
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You haven't been to Mojave lately have you?
Subdivisions and shopping malls to the horizon!
Some clear space to the North, but from about Willow Springs to L.A. it is all paved over.
That should be the ultimate goal..
And so it goes. :)
Two choices ours or the Soverign Government of Mars.
This is space stuff is going to accellerate much faster then anticpated. We are on the verge of new break throughs in proplusion technology. In 30 years we should be able to get to Mars in two weeks. Just guessing and of course dependent on breakthroughs.
John
if the libs get there there will be no flags.. too identifying.
LOL.
Ha! Bolivia!
It seems that we are on a verge of something big.. Don't know what but my gut feeling is the something big is about happen...
"But nothing will happen outside of Tourism without property rights."
When I think of the immense scale of even interplanetary space and the asteroid belt, I can't imagine property laws making much difference. If space travel ever becomes cheaply available, piracy will be rampant.
The ultimate is an gravity proplusion set up. With that we could get to Mars in a day or two.
I told my 13 year old that she can go to the moon for fun one day. She may be 75 years old but one day she will.
John
LOL
Waste of my money.
Is there a basis for this phrase?
The only ones who find it shrinking are the ones who can't impose their will on the majority.Sounds like a blue stater wish to go dominate somewhere else.
Let's occupy and survive on the moon for a generation first.Closer, cheaper and more useful to Earth,
Remember that according to the Koran, the earth is flat (or so the Prophet says!), so they don't believe we landed on the moon. THis is completely unlike medieval Europe's belief in the flat earth theory -- that was NOT driven by the Bible
Hate to say this -- but you can't predict which countries will be around. By the time we get to Mars it may well be 2200 -- and 200 years ago there were countries like Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, etc while many countries did not exist and the US was just about the east coast. A lot can change in 200 years! I would pray that we're the top ddog and I'd guess we would still be, but it's too far away to predict
(Adjusting tin foil hat)...Until we learn how swamp gas and geese flocks can apparently manipulate gravitational forces or other EM phenomena to achieve speeds of 10,000 mph - and make right angle turns at those velocities - we won't be able to negotiate interstellar distances in any way useful to this or the next hundred generations of our human species.
We must poke around for the interstellar worm holes to cheat like Rosie Ruiz, and take the galactic subway to avoid the endless marathon offered up through conventional action-reaction propulsion.
Once there, we may meet hyper-intelligent swamp gas and geese species, who may have been traveling to our planet without fanfare for countless millenia.
However, all this is highly unlikely - since as the late-great Carl Sagan noted in paraphrased form - "If alien species had ever visited the Earth, they would obviously have landed on the White House lawn to say 'Howdy'. And if they have not been able to manage interstellar travel - then we obviously can't get there either. Ipso facto - we are for all practical purposes, alone in this universe."
So the whole thing is moot anyway. (Tossing away tin foil hat).
I think that Londo Mollari and Vir Kotto, along with the several billion centaurans(centauri), might have an issue with earthers taking over what they consider "their" planets.
Bab5 was FUN, wasn't it?
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