[Tyler_1]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

You are not my friend anymore.

Yes I am.
Those are old and stale and taste like cardboard.

[DrCaleb]

DonnaWho DonnaWho:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

You are not my friend anymore.

Yes I am.
Those are old and stale and taste like cardboard.

Haven't had one in decades.

See! If you had your rep on, I could neg rep you for the bad pun!

[Tyler_1]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

bad

[Jabberwalker]

I can't think of a bigger waste of money than manned missions to Mars. At least, when you build a bonfire out of bills, it keeps you warm and you can cook weenies and marshmallows over it.

Unless there is some promise of colonizing one of the moons of Jupiter, Mars is a stepping stone to nowhere, btw. The next stop is tens of thousands of year's travel way unless Einstein was totally wrong.

[DrCaleb]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

I can't think of a bigger waste of money than manned missions to Mars. At least, when you build a bonfire out of bills, it keeps you warm and you can cook weenies and marshmallows over it.

Unless there is some promise of colonizing one of the moons of Jupiter, Mars is a stepping stone to nowhere, btw. The next stop is tens of thousands of year's travel way unless Einstein was totally wrong.

Mars One is a non-profit privately funded company out of the Netherlands.

And the technical advancements we reaped from the Gemini, Mercury, Apollo and Shuttle programs was enormous. Many times more than the cost of the programs alone.

[Jabberwalker]

That's a good reason to shoot people out of a cannon? Can't we find all of those things out with unmanned vehicles that don't need to eat, sleep, shit and have bad days?

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

I can't think of a bigger waste of money than manned missions to Mars. At least, when you build a bonfire out of bills, it keeps you warm and you can cook weenies and marshmallows over it.

Unless there is some promise of colonizing one of the moons of Jupiter, Mars is a stepping stone to nowhere, btw. The next stop is tens of thousands of year's travel way unless Einstein was totally wrong.

Mars One is a non-profit privately funded company out of the Netherlands.

And the technical advancements we reaped from the Gemini, Mercury, Apollo and Shuttle programs was enormous. Many times more than the cost of the programs alone.

Exactly!

[DrCaleb]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

That's a good reason to shoot people out of a cannon? Can't we find all of those things out with unmanned vehicles that don't need to eat, sleep, shit and have bad days?

We've been firing unmanned probes at Mars for decades. "Let's see what's over there" has been the driving force behind everything since we started walking upright. It's time to see if we have the ingenuity to survive on a world where we shouldn't be able to. And there are things to be learnt there that only a person can discover.

We can't be asking questions about Mars, then waiting 10 years to send a probe to answer the question, only to have the answer beg more questions! We need to send people, and keep people there long enough to know Mars like we know Earth. Only that will prepare us for things outside our solar system.

[Jabberwalker]

We aren't going to get "outside our solar system" with people unless the laws of physics are re-written.

Yes, yes ... "warp bubbles". I wonder what THOSE will do to protoplasm when it's exposed to millions of rads per second for years at ah time.

[Jabberwalker]

We aren't going to get "outside our solar system" with people unless the laws of physics are re-written.

Yes, yes ... "warp bubbles". I wonder what THOSE will do to protoplasm when it's exposed to millions of rads per second for years at ah time.

[saturn_656]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

We aren't going to get "outside our solar system" with people unless the laws of physics are re-written.

Yes, yes ... "warp bubbles". I wonder what THOSE will do to protoplasm when it's exposed to millions of rads per second for years at ah time.

Eventually we'll reach a level of technology to get the job done. That or we become stranded on this rock and die a rather undignified death.

[DrCaleb]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

We aren't going to get "outside our solar system" with people unless the laws of physics are re-written.

Yes, yes ... "warp bubbles". I wonder what THOSE will do to protoplasm when it's exposed to millions of rads per second for years at ah time.

Eventually we'll reach a level of technology to get the job done. That or we become stranded on this rock and die a rather undignified death.

http://100yearstarshipstudy.com/

[BRAH]

God help the human race if this stupid bitch procreates on Mars.

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Mars One is a non-profit privately funded company out of the Netherlands.

And the technical advancements we reaped from the Gemini, Mercury, Apollo and Shuttle programs was enormous. Many times more than the cost of the programs alone.

Well said. Also, a manned Mars mission puts humanity closer to the stars and it also puts us closer to the vast hydrocarbon riches of Titan, one of the moons of Jupiter.

I'm frankly quite excited about the prospect of interplanetary supertankers plying the route between earth and Titan!

(Not to mention the inevitable drunk crashing one of them into an asteroid! )

[BartSimpson]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

We aren't going to get "outside our solar system" with people unless the laws of physics are re-written.

Yes, yes ... "warp bubbles". I wonder what THOSE will do to protoplasm when it's exposed to millions of rads per second for years at ah time.

Up until the early 1800's the fastest speeds people could move at were on horseback on land or as much as maybe 30knots at sea, depending on the wind.

Until 1869 it took people about four months to get from St. Louis to San Francisco. In 1870 it took four days. Ninety years later it took just four hours.

In 1850 if you had told someone on the Oregon Trail that their descendants would make the same trip in four hours they'd have given an answer on par with yours.

My caution to you is to not bet against the creativity and innovation of the human race given that everyone else before you who made such bets were eventually proven wrong.