We are going to Mars!
 

NASA's orders are to get astronauts to an asteroid by 2025, Mars by the 2030s.

http://npr.org/story/130268502

I will still be alive. :)

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithab...fe_on_mars.jpg

http://haysvillelibrary.files.wordpr...ve-on-mars.jpg

See you on the dark side of the moon... :upsidedow

ADG

Unless you get hit by a car of course. :)

nice. this should be interesting

The man did not go back to the moon in 40 years...

Why would they want to go to Mars?

Just wondering. Besides the water/etc stuff.

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I be dead by then

because mars is the closest planet that might possibly have had life at one point. and it's the closest planet with a tolerable atmosphere, and is relatively earthlike, so what we learn there will exponentially increase our knowledge of planets and life.

and because, somewhat like the egyptians building the pyramids, it would be an acheivement that would leave it's mark on history for all time.

not to mention the tech and science spinoffs from the project, to stimulate new industries.

hardly the same level of importance as dancing with the stars and quidos, I grant you.

we aren't getting there for $30b.

as long as they don't let Mormons or Jehovah witnesses go there..

Supposedly the private sector will need to help to build the equipment and tech.

maybe there is candy there :1orglaugh

seems like a lot to invest considering the economy is shit right now :2 cents:

Because Steven Hawkings said we better learn how to live in space within the next 200 years, or us humans are going to be extinct. Learning about Mars will be a huge step forward in that direction.

Man never walked on the moon. We have never gone into Van Allen radiation belts.:2 cents:

First it was 2010, then 2015.

Hal will get us there.

http://www.blogcadre.com/files/images/HAL2000_0.jpg

Lots of reasons:

Because it's there.
To discover and learn.
To Expand.
Too many people on Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population)
Because its there (so important I said it twice)

Are you channeling camgirls?

Life On Mars
David Bowie

It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

It's on Amerikas tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

How is NASA gonna afford this?

:1orglaugh:thumbsup

We already fucked up Mars millions of years ago... we came to Earth to live because we ruined our planet's natural resources and destroyed our planet's natural ability to heal itself.

Now we are returning back home to Mars? There's nothing left there for us to sustain life.

We're going to have to learn to clean up our new planet, Earth, before it's too late.

Great song :thumbsup

Saw his interview with Larry King. He had some great logic and blunt answer for Larry.