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Big Ern said:
We've been going to Mars fairly regularly for the last 30 years or so, it just seems like a rush because Mars' orbit around the sun means there's a narrow launch window when everyone has to get their missions launched if they wanna go.
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Thats what I said ffs
 
I’d prefer they spend money on exploration and the lust for knowledge over weapons but think we should spend the money on this world before we start spending money on another world.

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There's nowt there it's clearly just some sand and rocks which we had pictures of years ago.
 
aberdude said:
I’d prefer they spend money on exploration and the lust for knowledge over weapons but think we should spend the money on this world before we start spending money on another world.

bill hicks ish
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Disagree with that. I think we should be ambitious enough to do both.

Space exploration often gets accused of soaking up money that could be used on 'insert worthy cause' but the two really shouldn't even be linked.

Stop spending money on wars, get the rich to pay their taxes, etc. These should be the priorities if people think there isn't enough money to address social issues.
 
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PINKIE said:
Disagree with that. I think we should be ambitious enough to do both.

Space exploration often gets accused of soaking up money that could be used on 'insert worthy cause' but the two really shouldn't even be linked.

Stop spending money on wars, get the rich to pay their taxes, etc. These should be the priorities if people think there isn't enough money to address social issues.
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I agree ish but let’s stop starvation first yeah......then the boy’s can spend on its toys
 
brb said:
Yeah, I take a basic interest, been to NASA (Florida) a couple of times while over there. Loved it from the days as a kid of seeing the first moon landing.

I saw an article the other day, where they are looking for new astronaut recruits, the training and technical requirements are immense, you litterally have to even know how to build something out of nothing, anyone that has seen Apollo 13, will know what I mean, technical survival at its most basic. Which really is all that the ever first moon landing was, when I saw the stuff they sent up, my first thought was this never happened, so I can understand why you get your conspiracy theorists.

As the scientists said about Mars, it's not whether life is on the planet, it's about did life ever exist on it, and if not, why not, as billions of years ago it would have resembled something that should have been able to sustain life. Don't think I'll live long enough to see all the answers, to their questions.
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I've met Jim Lovell, Tom Stafford and Buzz Aldrin over the years. Brilliant men, not just pilots. Armstrong, for instance, taught undergraduate mathematics when he was a professor at Cincinatti. I'll not address the conspiracy theories, as they're just the results of addled, desperate minds that don't understand science and crave attention, but I will say this about the 'Whitey's On The Moon' school of thought that decries the cost - the whole Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes combined cost one seventh of the Vietnam war. The question should never be 'is there enough to spend on scientific advancement?', but what other ****, including tax cuts for the rich so they can stash their money in havens, are you wasting the world's wealth on?
 
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HR Pufnstuf said:
I've met Jim Lovell, Tom Stafford and Buzz Aldrin over the years. Brilliant men, not just pilots. Armstrong, for instance, taught undergraduate mathematics when he was a professor at Cincinatti. I'll not address the conspiracy theories, as they're just the results of addled, desperate minds that don't understand science and crave attention, but I will say this about the 'Whitey's On The Moon' school of thought that decries the cost - the whole Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes combined cost one seventh of the Vietnam war. The question should never be 'is there enough to spend on scientific advancement?', but what other ****, including tax cuts for the rich so they can stash their money in havens, are you wasting the world's wealth on?
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As a young kid, I was the age where you had to do all about the space stuff at school. One of the few lessons I bothered with. I'd say with space, whatever the future holds out there, I just hope we can leave all our religions, war and hatred, on Earth. I'm always open minded about what is possible, even the impossible. centuries ago if you had said you were going to fly at 35,000 feet and travel the speed of sound, you'd have probably been burned as a witch. You defo would have been if you had mentioned the world wasn't flat and you was going to the moon.
 
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brb said:
As a young kid, I was the age where you had to do all about the space stuff at school. One of the few lessons I bothered with. I'd say with space, whatever the future holds out there, I just hope we can leave all our religions, war and hatred, on Earth. I'm always open minded about what is possible, even the impossible. centuries ago if you had said you were going to fly at 35,000 feet and travel the speed of sound, you'd have probably been burned as a witch. You defo would have been if you had mentioned the world wasn't flat and you was going to the moon.
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There's people on this very site who would burn you today for saying that <laugh>
 
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brb said:
As a young kid, I was the age where you had to do all about the space stuff at school. One of the few lessons I bothered with. I'd say with space, whatever the future holds out there, I just hope we can leave all our religions, war and hatred, on Earth. I'm always open minded about what is possible, even the impossible. centuries ago if you had said you were going to fly at 35,000 feet and travel the speed of sound, you'd have probably been burned as a witch. You defo would have been if you had mentioned the world wasn't flat and you was going to the moon.
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66 years from Kittyhawk to The Sea Of Tranquillity, but let's not kid ourselves that it was science that drove that - it was two world wars and, especially, The Cold War. But at it's height, the US space programme employed 400k people in damn good. proper jobs for 15 years. If that - and the the discoveries and patents that followed the moon-landing - is not good use of government money, then show me what is in an age when state industries and organisations have been privatised, but still receive state subsidies in a a siphoning off of national wealth into private pockets.
 
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HR Pufnstuf said:
Some scientists claim the whole universe is gossamer thin flat, and we live in an hologram. Hmm. :emoticon-0138-think
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Since i was a kid i have always wanted to find some really clever scientist and ask them a couple of questions

What caused the big bang if there was nothing there to start with

If the universe is still expanding what is it expanding into

OK maybe one more

If the answer to question 2 is "into the void" then the void in what

<laugh>
 
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Diego said:
Since i was a kid i have always wanted to find some really clever scientist and ask them a couple of questions

What caused the big bang if there was nothing there to start with

If the universe is still expanding what is it expanding into

OK maybe one more

If the answer to question 2 is "into the void" then the void in what

<laugh>
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just ask huffnpuff about his sig.

back on our perch<laugh>
 
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Diego said:
Since i was a kid i have always wanted to find some really clever scientist and ask them a couple of questions

What caused the big bang if there was nothing there to start with

If the universe is still expanding what is it expanding into

OK maybe one more

If the answer to question 2 is "into the void" then the void in what

<laugh>
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Now I find them perfectly reasonable questions. If you find the answers let me know. <laugh>
 
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brb said:
As a young kid, I was the age where you had to do all about the space stuff at school. One of the few lessons I bothered with. I'd say with space, whatever the future holds out there, I just hope we can leave all our religions, war and hatred, on Earth. I'm always open minded about what is possible, even the impossible. centuries ago if you had said you were going to fly at 35,000 feet and travel the speed of sound, you'd have probably been burned as a witch. You defo would have been if you had mentioned the world wasn't flat and you was going to the moon.
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Woah religion? Hold the fck on bro. I'll have you know God told me Mars is the promised land.

It may look like a dry desert wasteland in the middle of nowhere but it's holy land I tell ye!
 
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Treble said:
Woah religion? Hold the fck on bro. I'll have you know God told me Mars is the promised land.

It may look like a dry desert wasteland in the middle of nowhere but it's holy land I tell ye!
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Bit like Israel that mate, full of dates and Olives when everywhere around it has oceans of oil <whistle>
 
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