In the quest for other life in the universe the better place to send robots would be Jupiter's moons Ganymede & Europa. Both have oxygen atmospheres and known water content.
In the quest for other life in the universe the better place to send robots would be Jupiter's moons Ganymede & Europa. Both have oxygen atmospheres and known water content.
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If there is life on Mars, can we hook them up with the dating sites?
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It's probably microbial, like many of the people you find on dating sites here...Originally Posted by Sensible Shoes
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Hardrock69 (08-07-2012)
Dear Religion, While you were debating what chicken sandwiches were okay to eat, I just landed on Mars. Sincerely, Your Pal Science— Mike Huddleston (@MKHDDLSTN) August 6, 2012
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England hosts the Olympics........
So we land on Mars.
America, FUCK YEAH
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U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!!England hosts the Olympics........
So we land on Mars.
America, FUCK YEAH
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....With a little help from your friendsU.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/st...echnology.html
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Yeah, but Nickleback negates any help you provided.
Sorry, eh.
Been reading a book the last couple of weeks on the history of anti-gravity research.
Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion by Paul A. Laviolette, Ph.D.
By 1955, it had been discovered how to travel at 85% of the speed of light by applying 310 volts at a few milliamps to a saucer-shaped object with a pair of electrodes......
By 1957 ALL the major aerospace corporations were publicizing how they were getting involved in anti-grav research, saying we would have aircraft that could fly at 10,000 mph within a decade or so....then about 1959 they suddenly all went silent, and everything became heavily classified.....
I look at this Mars lander stuff as a smokescreen....
I mean, it is all well and good to keep the public interest going on about space, etc.
But truth be told, the former head of Lockheed Skunkworks said in an interview in the late 90s that they already had interplanetary travel capabilities....as in "Star Wars, Star Trek...been there, done that...."
So to me this is all a dog and pony show. Simply a way for scientists who are not in the loop to do some low-level research that only has value for them because they do not know anything about advanced technology, as they don't have high enough security clearances.
No, not needing to be fitted for a tin-foil hat. Just going by what factual information on that subject is publicly available.
There was a show on cable this evening about the landing. They detailed all of the Mars probes since the 70s....including the ones that failed.....
Glad this one succeeded in landing. It will keep Congressional budgets for NASA from being slashed....at least it will keep them from being slashed too much....
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Apparently I'm still missing something. All of these items were created because we send human beings into space? These technologies were captured from the Moon and Mars? Or were they created here on planet Earth. I just don't understand how landing on Mars is supposed to be this tremendous benefit to all mankind. I'm not saying Nasa is useless....just wondering what landing on other planets is supposed to do for anyone or anything other than our country's ego.
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Actually that's an experiment in the making... seeing if the microbes and bacteria we sent to Mars will mate with what's there.
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That was exactly the kind of question people asked when the Large Hadron Collider was being planned. Some people are still asking it without realizing that it led directly to the World Wide Web.
The act of exploration leads to knowledge and benefits. You don't always know where you are going or what you are going to get when you take the first step.
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When I was a kid, this was one of the finest discoveries NASA ever made.
These things were badassed as well...
Particularly when you were playing with this:
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Well let's take a look at some of the more simple and easily applied benefits from that list. Look at all of the fire fighting technologies that enable firefighters to safely fight fires and save lives. That helps a lot of people... right?
Well... space is a nasty place. Once outside of our atmosphere... radiation, wide temperature ranges both cold and hot... require protective clothing. In other words space suits. Then there's the whole breathing thing... the technology developed to safely put a human in space and been adapted to humans safely fighting fires... thus benefiting in saved lives. That's a good thing... right?
Now no, these technologies were not captured from the moon and Mars... both of those are planet type things that do not produce technologies. All of this wonderful stuff was invented right here on Earth... another planet type thing infested with humans and human like things... like Seshmeister, LoungeMachine & Elvis...
Point is... the research and development of space exploration has produced tons of technologies that have improved life on Earth for those human and human like beings.
It may not be the simple and direct development you are thinking... many were indirect adaptations. Put it simply... if we didn't invest in space exploration, a lot of very good stuff would not have been invented in the last 60 years.
On the benefit to mankind thing... those mankind units are very restless and get bored easily. If we aren't busy working on figuring out the mysteries of the universe then we're out stirring up trouble. You'll notice that millions of humans and human like beings spend their whole lives researching and developing this "space stuff". That may seem like a waste of good time and money... but look at how many of those folks aren't starting wars and shootin up movie theaters. It makes the world safer...
Ok ZahZoo....the nutshell version of that can be summed up in one sentence:
Idle hands are the devil's plaything!
Where else are we supposed to live when the Earth gets too crowded? They're already thinking colonization.
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Yep, we'll go back to the original 12 colonies - you know, Caprica, Picon, etc.
I think I'm going to invest in Terra-forming technologies...
Strip joints in space...that's where the money is!I think I'm going to invest in Terra-forming technologies...
Could call it the 600 mile high club
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DONNIEP (08-07-2012)
Perfect!!Could call it the 600 mile high club
invest in regolith and sulphur = waterless concrete ,and you can make as many spearmint rhino's as ya want
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Apparently it's easy to break your penis in space. 4:37
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James Bond didn't need no special suit!!!
I say we send all the assholes to Mars.
It'd be hard to get Sammy off his bad motor scooter to send him into space...
BITEYOASS (08-08-2012)
That was probably the most polite and lucid way anyone has ever been sarcastic and slightly patronizing I have ever seen. Point taken Zahzoo. I agree with some of what you say no doubt. I guess we can agree to disagree about certain aspects too. Like anyone really gives a shit anyway.
The general mindset seems to be we have ruined this planet so lets move to Mars. It's already ruined.
That's a lot of stuff. I just wish we would have already set up a lunar base on the moon by now. 40 something yrs. after going to the moon you would think we would have a permanent base there to not only continue to make advancements on those things in that list but to actually build some sort of interstellar craft that would be able to get to places like Mars much faster. It really seems like somewhere after we landed on the moon we became less interested in space exploration and more inclined to just orbit Earth with the shuttle.
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There'd be more interest in space exploration if the astronauts looked like this:
A woman...
Well, we could "march him to Mars," but that would us littering with space junk...It'd be hard to get Sammy off his bad motor scooter to send him into space...
Not just any woman - that's Holly Goodhead.
Also Rogers greatest moment which I never tire of...
I completely forgot about that
The cardiac pacemaker was actually created by a Canadian engineer. NASA's contribution was programmable pacers.
You caught me on a good day...
My personal interest in all this stems from the fact that all of the scientific advancement has occurred in my lifetime. From the X-15 rocket plane and Mercury programs to the ISS and these Mars robots. So I grew in school learning of Mercury, Gemini & Apollo programs as current events. Not grainy black & white pictures and film in a history lesson. As an 11 year old watching the moon landing live in school was an event that I can't ever forget...
People today take so much of what we have for granted... it's pathetic. But I guess you have to have been around before all this technology existed to appreciate it and truly understand how far we've come in such a short time period. Majority of it all comes from two sources... space exploration and Information Technology. I have been fortunate to have spent my career in the forefront of IT and also have worked on a few NASA related projects.
You can ask why waste the time and money to go to Mars... I'd ask why not. What are you going to do sit around watching reruns of Gillligans Island drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon beer every night or get off your lazy ass and explore the galaxy..?
Go read Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot... if that doesn't inspire you... change the channel I'm sure Sponge Bob is on... Maybe you'll discover a Crabby Patty...
LoungeMachine (08-08-2012)
That was less polite.
Some nice pic's:
Ok....I'm not a narrow minded, pigheaded moron so I took your advice, went to the library and took out Pale Blue Dot. Just starting to read it. Your coming from a vantage point of being an 11 yr old remembering the Moon landing. I'm coming from the vantage point of a 12 year old whose class was stopped by a weeping teacher who came in to tell us the Challenger had just blown up. There's always room to learn and be enlightened.....I'm not above that by any means. Not sure if there's any need for your smarmy jabs about Gilligans Island, Pabst and Sponge Bob, but no biggie.
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