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    Default What do you think? To Mars - and beyond

    To Mars - and beyond, What do you think?

    The West Australian October 29, 2010, 8:56 am






    A close-up of the red planet Mars. Picture: AAP



    Humans could one day colonise planets such as Mars under a NASA plan to send astronauts into space knowing that they would not return.
    Even with conventional technology humans could be on Mars' moons by 2030.
    But NASA has a far grander plan - the Hundred Years Starship program.
    NASA’s Ames Research Centre has teamed up with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to develop large spacecraft capable of supporting life for 100 years.
    The idea is to build space craft for a one-way mission and have everything needed to sustain humans for one hundred years.
    The astronauts physiology would change because of the long-distance flight, with bone structure and muscles being altered.
    It could take the intrepid space explorers nine months to get to the red planet.
    But NASA is hoping that the chance of becoming the founding fathers of a new colony could be enough to lure those willing to explore the final frontier, to explore strange new worlds, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
    Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I´m not so sure about the universe.


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    I think the NASA idea is absolute bollocks. It would cost hundreds of billions of dollars even if it is feasible, just to keep NASA scientists in a job and enlarge the bank accounts of the already wealthy defence industry.

    Why not spend a fraction of the cost on improving life on earth for all, particularly health and education which would have the bonus of reducing the world's population.

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    As long as I didn't have to wear a red shirt, I'd be interested.

    Anyway, NASA's budget is only 1% of US military/defence/war on terra spending and I like the idea of keeping scientists in jobs. It's not like they are highly paid, anyway.

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    I love the idea, but we really need to send people who will be of most use by their absence. Politicians and ranting preachers spring to mind.
    Cheers,
    Jim

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbur View Post
    I love the idea, but we really need to send people who will be of most use by their absence. Politicians and ranting preachers spring to mind.
    Cheers,
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    And Bogans and their spawn
    Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I´m not so sure about the universe.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Spencer View Post
    And Bogans and their spore
    Don't you mean "Spawn" Phil? ( Blasted bogans can't spell!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christopha View Post
    Don't you mean "Spawn" Phil? ( Blasted bogans can't spell!)
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    Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I´m not so sure about the universe.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Splinter View Post
    As long as I didn't have to wear a red shirt, I'd be interested.

    I get it
    It's only a mistake if you don't learn from it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbur View Post
    I love the idea, but we really need to send people who will be of most use by their absence. Politicians and ranting preachers spring to mind.
    Cheers,
    Jim
    I'm all for it too as long as they make it an attractive waste dump to entice bogans, druggies, sexual deviants and religious people. To that end, they could promote free drugs, free flanny shirts and trainers, free and revised religious texts to further assuage the nutters.

    Without that lot we could probably survive a few more millennia.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodwould View Post
    I'm all for it too as long as they make it an attractive waste dump to entice bogans, druggies, sexual deviants and religious people. To that end, they could promote free drugs, free flanny shirts and trainers, free and revised religious texts to further assuage the nutters.

    Without that lot we could probably survive a few more millennia.
    All it needs is a little spin:

    "Mars, the galaxy's best kept secret - the holiday destination you'd die for. Laze on the beaches, cruise the canals and meet people of discrimination just like yourself.
    Don't hesitate, book now for the trip you and your family deserve".

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    Forgot to say, "it really is a breath-taking destination".

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    One wonders who would volunteer for such a mission. ..... and what were they thinking ???
    Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso


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    Quote Originally Posted by hughie View Post
    One wonders who would volunteer for such a mission. ..... and what were they thinking ???
    Do you mean, "Were they thinking?"
    Still look at the people who go on the 'reality tv' shows.
    Joking aside, it does have an epic attraction to it and we've always had the visionaries, misfits, malcontents and just plain curious in our society.
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    They will need lots and lots of missionaries on Mars. In fact they will definitely need every single one we have.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christopha View Post
    They will need lots and lots of missionaries on Mars. In fact they will definitely need every single one we have.....
    Wonder what their position would be on that.
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