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1522330 No.1522330 [Reply] [Original]

Mars is the next logical step
In our space program
It's the challenge that's been staring us in the face
For the past 30 years

It has water, it has carbon,
It has a 24 hour day
It has geothermal energy
Mars is a place we can settle

There is a giant rift in its surface
5,000 kilometers long
There is a volcano as wide as Arizona

So there's the choice in life
One either grows or one decays
Grow or die
I think we should grow

Mars is a world of wonders

It has canyons, river valleys,
and giant ice sheets

Mars is a world of wonders

>> No.1522332
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1522332

It shouldn't be humans to Mars in 50 years
It should be humans to Mars in 10

We either muster the courage to go
Or we risk the possibility of stagnation and decay

We've got cosmic radiation
Zero gravity
Martian dust storms
Back contamination

But these are dragons that we can take on

In our time we have sifted
The sands of Mars
Established a presence there
And fulfilled a century of dreams

The Mars rovers have really
Captured our imaginations
They genuinely are explorers
In the old-fashioned sense

If you put out a call
For volunteers for the first crew to Mars
They'd be lined up coast to coast

>> No.1522339

No one likes symphony of science

>> No.1522343

>>1522330
sorry NASA your budget was cut. You are staying on earth.

>> No.1522340
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1522340

(refrain)

Mars is a dry frozen version of our home
Covered in red dust and sand

At one time
In the ancient past
Mars was very similar
To the conditions of early earth

There will always be people with new ideas
On how humans should live together

We now have "eyes" and "ears" on the surface

What's left after you go is
The good you've left behind
You have to believe in hope
You have to believe in the future

There are more and more people coming around to the point of view that
A positive future for humanity requires human expansion to space

(refrain)

We're at a crossroads today
We either muster the courage to go
Or we risk the possibility of stagnation and decay

>> No.1522344

>mars has a 24 hour day

lolno

>> No.1522346

>24 hour day
Nope, try again.

>> No.1522355

>>1522343
That proposal didn't get through yet.

>> No.1522365

>>1522355
it will though

>> No.1522367

So much garbage.
What if we just burn it all, collect the smoke, put it in containers, and then fly it to mars ?...

>> No.1522370
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1522370

>>1522367

>> No.1522376

>>1522370

that picture is freaking what made national geographic, I swear

>> No.1522375

>>1522367
That actually could work.
We could make a giant ball of trash strap a rocket to it and aim it at Phobos.
We could get rid of our junk and terraform mars with the price of one rocket!

>> No.1522374

>>1522367

You mean... Burning garbage, then using the gas as reaction mass for an ion drive and bring millions of colonists to Mars?

BRILLIANT.

>> No.1522407

>>1522346
>>1522344
>The solar day (or sol) on Mars is only slightly longer than an Earth day: 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Orbit_and_rotation

>> No.1522423

>>1522407
>Wikepedia
>Takes it seriously
hahahafaggot.jpg

>> No.1522425

>>1522375
>>1522374

Yea.. Have though about it alot... They keep saying if they had factorys like on Earth; on Mars. it could get a stronger atmosphere... have made a little serch around, and no one have talked about it... The counter argumentations to this is... Money ? Resource... But is ± really a question of money ?

>> No.1522441

>>1522423
Because Wikipedia totally lies all the time and doesn't have NASA guys or some Mars experts keeping the article up to date.

Wikipedia is not quite as shitty as your professor said it was.

>> No.1522445

>>1522425
Is that how you actually write?

>> No.1522446

>>1522441
>Wikipedia is not quite as shitty as your professor said it was.
>Implying lecturers and researchers don't themselves use Wikipedia

>> No.1522457

>>1522446
Eh, I frequently hear stories of how people aren't allowed to use Wikipedia as a research source for assignments and all that.

>> No.1522474

>>1522367
why would we shoot it too anywhere? if we did that we could just shoot it out into space and wish it luck.

>> No.1522489

>>1522425
read
>>1522474

>> No.1522501

Who cares if Mars has a 24 hour day? right now its our best bet for colonization and we have to colonize other worlds if for no other reason than insurance against large asteroids. If the earth gets completely fucked for what ever reason its prudent to have a back of our race.

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1522516

>>1522501
Smack Phobos into mars for terraformation?

>> No.1522537

>>1522501
Theres also the fact that we may need it for resources in like 20 years

>> No.1522547

Mars doesn't have a magnetic field like earth, enjoy your high radiation doses.

>> No.1522716

>>1522547
>Implying we need to live on the surface
>Implying knocking a moon into mars wouldn't fix that problem

>> No.1522880

What possible reason would we have to live on Mars? We can't even colonize our own deserts efficiency, yet. It would be a little easier (and cheaper) to establish a nation in, say, Sahara than on a rock 185 million miles away.

>> No.1522905

I fucking work with Bob Zubrin

He's so funny

>> No.1522923

>>1522905
What does he think about The Case for Mars song?

>> No.1522926

>>1522905
pics or you are bullshitting us

>> No.1522942

>>1522880

Never been to Las Vegas huh?

>> No.1522990

>>1522923
I'll have to show him it, idk if he has even seen it.

>>1522926
I can get a pic on Monday

>> No.1522999

>>1522942

That is kind of the point. Why don't we have more cities like Las Vegas? The cost. And you're telling me Mars would be somehow cheaper? I am all for continuing the research of Mars and the rest of our solar system, but talk of colonization is just stupid.

>> No.1523000

I say asteroid mining is the future

>> No.1523020

>>1522999
see
>>1523000

Also that would put an end to Americas debt once and for all.

>> No.1523036

>>1523020

Now we're just talking about different things. When it comes to asteroid mining I am a lot more open but we don't really need to go to them, anyway. We have several rather big rocks coming our way in the next two hundred years, leashing them is not outside of our technological capabilities (though screwing that up would be rather...bad.)

>> No.1523086

>>1522905
What the hell? You have to explain this.

>> No.1523094

>>1522999
>>1522880
The reason is so that we're not banking all of humanity on one planet tards.

>> No.1523111
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1523111

That's here.
That's home.
That's us.

>> No.1523147

>>1523086
?
He has a company called pioneer astronautics in lakewood, colorado. I work there. He's funny and random.

>> No.1523149

i love that song

>> No.1523896

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