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RE: Life on Mars is looking tempting.
December 5, 2019 at 9:40 am
Hmmm... nice video but I'm not convinced it will ever happen
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RE: Life on Mars is looking tempting.
December 5, 2019 at 9:49 am
You've obviously never read Red Lightning.
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RE: Life on Mars is looking tempting.
December 5, 2019 at 9:50 am
If God had meant for man to live on Mars, he would have given us a different respiratory system and more radiation shielding.
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RE: Life on Mars is looking tempting.
December 5, 2019 at 9:52 am
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2019 at 9:53 am by Gwaithmir.)
Ask me about living on Mars again when it has a couple of shopping malls, some Chinese restaurants, a 15-screen cinema complex, a supermarket and a Burger King.
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RE: Life on Mars is looking tempting.
December 5, 2019 at 10:31 am
At work.
So..... Elon Musk or who ever gets infrastuctur, industry etc established on Mars.
What, if anything is to prevent them from blowing the dust off the old Nuke Orion plans and hooning off to Alpha Centauri?
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RE: Life on Mars is looking tempting.
December 5, 2019 at 10:52 am
(December 5, 2019 at 9:28 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (December 5, 2019 at 9:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yeah, that's the case with most series', sadly.
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That was the serial days, IIRC. Burroughs was selling a book a month or something? Doc Savage came out in pulp format.
Doc Savage was a lot later, but yeah, you're correct.
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RE: Life on Mars is looking tempting.
December 5, 2019 at 12:42 pm
(December 5, 2019 at 2:06 am)ignoramus Wrote:
Love this vid by NASA.
Where do I sign up?
Oh shit, they probably only want smart people …
Beccs, they will need a medic. You up to it? Or chicken? lol.
They would need GPs and nurses.
Specialists aren’t generally useful in these situations until a colony has been established for some time and supports a fairly large population.
I think you should go, though. Doubtless they need cabbages...
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RE: Life on Mars is looking tempting.
December 5, 2019 at 1:10 pm
They're working on a aerial vehicle to be used on Titan.