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Old 11-07-2010, 11:29 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Gerco View Post
Maybe this is the point. Maybe they know that we have gone to far and the earth is doomed, so we need to seed another planet for the race to survive? Mar's just being the first test shot.
The odds on Mars being able to support life are extreme. So far with all the telescopes we have there has been no places discovered that could support life. Assuming we have the technology to get there and survive the journey, no gravity is a killer. If your body adapts to it when you land you get crushed.

We have no options, the Earth is all we have. Spending trillions trying to get off it is wasting money that might be better spent saving the planet.
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