There she goes!!! another one to Mars.

Davey Jones

Davey Jones

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I watch another NASA launch today of a Maven orbiter to probe mysteries in Mars' air.
There have been over 20 launches to Mars over the years at a cost of millions each.
Its great to watch those launches from Cape Canaveral AFS but I'ved always wondered
why do we keep going there,is this suppose to be our future home when Earth finally destroys itself because of its inhabitant?

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/mars-mystery-tour-nasa-counts-down-maven-orbiters-launch-2D11603312
 

I was actually contacted to submit one of the haikus on the DVD. My entry:

Hello Martian Man!
We've screwed up the Earth big-time.
Can we colonize?

:playful:

For years I've heard talk about how Mars might be one of the more habitable planets (although not quite as human-friendly as Earth), so I wouldn't be surprised if they were gathering data before The Big Move.
 
I'd rather live on the Moon,Mars is a L O N G commute,last I heard it was 38.6 million miles give or take a million.
 

Check out the funny yet scientific book called HOW TO LIVE ON MARS.

It even has a chapter on meeting girls on Mars and how to find a job on Mars.
Seriously, it is a fun read.
 
The amount of technology that has come from the drive into space & to the moon & Mars is overwhelming.
If you remember the old commodore 64 computer then that was about the of technology on the first ride
into space. You & I would not be sitting in front our computers now, the advances in Medical science,
we can honestly say that space & the medical advancements have enabled us a longer life expectancy.
The thing we use every day has derived in some way from things that have had to be developed for space.
I honestly believe at 73 I have been lucky to have lived in a time here on earth when at this moment we have
witnessed the great & fastest advancement in technology ever!
 
Wow, we really are bent on surviving aren't we? We'd even settle for existing on poor ole Mars. Why?
Oh, and forget about that commuting thing, no one's coming back. This ain't the movies.
The lower gravity will leave you with shrivelled muscles and lowered bone density and after as little as 12 months Earth could crumple you like a candy wrapper.

I read something Assimov once wrote about population expansion at the then current, but since increasing rate.

Within 6 thousand years the human race would occupy every square meter of solid matter in the Solar System. That's EVERY square metre, including gas giants, asteroids and the sun itself. Now that's just plain impossible right? Something's going to stop us breeding that far and fast. Starvation probably, but something.
Now in light of that, settling Mars, a much smaller planet than this one, is putting a band-aid on a gutshot.
6,000 years is a blink in time. I think we need to look closer to home and at far lower technology levels for solutions to overpopulation.
 
Diwundrin said:
6,000 years is a blink in time. I think we need to look closer to home and at far lower technology levels for solutions to overpopulation.
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We already have many low-tech solutions for overpopulation, but it's the laws, morals and basic insanity of Mankind that keeps us from effectively using them.

If we were REALLY serious about overpopulation then we would institute a Logan's Run or Soylent Green kind of law. Don't hold your breath waiting, though.
 
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Davey Jones said:
The actual cost of this launch is $681 MILLION.
Seems we have nothing better to throw all the money at.
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Remember, the cost is spread to industries throughout America , who employ workers. If they weren't employed they would be on welfare.
then there is the technology that has been fed into things we use in everyday life, cars, medical, household goods, telephone & wireless
technology. These inventions create employment. We have to educate our young to a higher & newer level than we were educated.
​So overall it is monies well spent!.
 

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