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Can we nominate passengers? Elaine Send a noteboard - 16/11/2010 01:52:06 PM
Some of you may be familiar with the Kim Stanley Robinson novel, Red Mars, where a small collection scientists are sent to Mars to explore, study, and prepare the planet for habitation. Well, the idea seems to be gaining a foothold in the actual scientific community now.

Here is a brief article about this proposal...


I have a few co-workers that need a loooong walk off a short pier, if you get me.
Elaine
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Scientists propose one way trip to Mars. Jacob - 15/11/2010 04:35:40 PM 1079 Views
I'm reading that again right now. nossy - 15/11/2010 04:39:14 PM 606 Views
Logical, but I'll have to read it later; thanks though. Joel - 15/11/2010 04:46:26 PM 572 Views
Interesting idea but a non-starter random thoughts - 15/11/2010 05:04:38 PM 580 Views
Plenty of volunteers can be found for a suicide mission to Mars. Macharius - 15/11/2010 05:22:10 PM 600 Views
Yes... Jacob - 15/11/2010 06:42:53 PM 589 Views
yes but the government would never fund it random thoughts - 15/11/2010 07:24:51 PM 592 Views
Yes, true... Jacob - 15/11/2010 08:08:41 PM 605 Views
Willing and able aren't necessarily the same thing Isaac - 16/11/2010 04:23:52 PM 532 Views
There is suicidal and then there is 'suicidal'. Jacob - 16/11/2010 05:15:52 PM 547 Views
You may know more about it than I do, but I'm not sure you're right. Aemon - 15/11/2010 06:26:16 PM 619 Views
I think you may be under estimating how much supplies two people would need to last them forty years random thoughts - 15/11/2010 07:50:24 PM 583 Views
Re: I think you may be under estimating how much supplies two people would need to last them forty Aemon - 15/11/2010 10:20:48 PM 582 Views
Re: I think you may be under estimating how much supplies two people would need to last them forty Macharius - 15/11/2010 11:26:51 PM 561 Views
Homsar - 16/11/2010 10:48:39 PM 551 Views
I half-expected the body of this post to read "... for their ex-wives." *NM* Craig - 15/11/2010 07:38:50 PM 300 Views
Ha! Jacob - 15/11/2010 08:09:06 PM 544 Views
I've been. Cold, dusty, a little dry... got some pretty pictures, though. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 15/11/2010 10:26:43 PM 246 Views
Paul Davies wrote one of my favorite books: God and the New Physics. Excellent book. everynametaken - 16/11/2010 04:52:03 AM 690 Views
I want to go. Amyrlin - 16/11/2010 05:12:23 AM 560 Views
Can we nominate passengers? Elaine - 16/11/2010 01:52:06 PM 547 Views
What if we send all the people we don't like... TaskmasterJack - 16/11/2010 09:44:56 PM 543 Views
And, Jacob - 18/11/2010 08:32:02 PM 596 Views
There's a reason that I read 90% of your posts. j-whitt987 - 20/11/2010 01:47:53 PM 561 Views
"We are on a vulnerable planet," j-whitt987 - 20/11/2010 01:34:01 PM 720 Views
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