Mars

[Ivan Dobsky]

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

Our minds are physically trapped and limited by our experience that everything is inside something else, something can not come from nothing, and there must be a beginning to everything. We simply can not imagine nothing, the best we can do is imagine the absence of the tings we know. But we can express nothing and infinity in mathematical terms. And rather than thinking of zero as nothing, think of -1 plus + 1. Or the other way around. Or as George says in Yellow Submarine 'It's all in the mind'.

 

[Treble]

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

I'd love to see that play out. Knowing you Diego I'll give it half an hour before you do his head in and he tells you to fck off

 

[brb]

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!

Mars was never intended to be the promised land, it's merely to see if it holds any clues connecting to Earth, and can it be used as a stepping stone to further our journey into space. Mars is nowt but a dead planet - I watched that programme you posted up, very interesting, certainly told you everything you needed to know about how it became a wasteland. If people are looking for little green men, they are going to be very disappointed.

 

[Diego]

the milky ways are on us.

I fancy something chewy mate, got any star bars?

 

[Ivan Dobsky]

we hardly know our own planet

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True dat. More people have walked on the Moon that have reached Challenger Deep in The Marianas Trench.

 

[Treble]

Our minds are physically trapped and limited by our experience that everything is inside something else, something can not come from nothing, and there must be a beginning to everything. We simply can not imagine nothing, the best we can do is imagine the absence of the tings we know. But we can express nothing and infinity in mathematical terms. And rather than thinking of zero as nothing, think of -1 plus + 1. Or the other way around. Or as George says in Yellow Submarine 'It's all in the mind'.

In that respect, the belief in the spiritual aspect of an afterlife is very similar

 

[Ivan Dobsky]

Mars was never intended to be the promised land, it's merely to see if it holds any clues connecting to Earth, and can it be used as a stepping stone to further our journey into space. Mars is nowt but a dead planet - I watched that programme you posted up, very interesting, certainly told you everything you needed to know about how it became a wasteland. If people are looking for little green men, they are going to be very disappointed.

Might be fossilised, little green microbes though.

 

[Treble]

Bit like Israel that mate, full of dates and Olives when everywhere around it has oceans of oil

Kind of the point I was making mate.

 

[Diego]

Our minds are physically trapped and limited by our experience that everything is inside something else, something can not come from nothing, and there must be a beginning to everything. We simply can not imagine nothing, the best we can do is imagine the absence of the tings we know. But we can express nothing and infinity in mathematical terms. And rather than thinking of zero as nothing, think of -1 plus + 1. Or the other way around. Or as George says in Yellow Submarine 'It's all in the mind'.

I was going to **** you off half way through, i thought you were going to blame that on Confucius

 

[brb]

Might be fossilised, little green microbes though.

Might be something fossilised. I know it's going to bring back samples from Mars, if the technology goes without any glitches.

 

[Ivan Dobsky]

In that respect, the belief in the spiritual aspect of an afterlife is very similar

Yes, we were only talking about this on our board a couple of months ago about the similarities in unprovable, left-field wings of particle and metaphysical sciences, such as Many World theory and the Anthropic principle, and how medievel monks - who were damn good mathematicians - speculated on angels dancing on the heads of pins, and 'proved' the universe was geo-centric through their calculations of wandering stars.

Then our universe really did collapse.

 

[Treble]

Might be something fossilised. I know it's going to bring back samples from Mars, if the technology goes without any glitches.

Viruses from bats will be the least of our problems. Good luck finding a vaccine for that.

The irony of looking for a way for people to carry on the hunan race beyond this planet, only for some unknown disease from Mars to wipe us all out here once and for all

 

[Ivan Dobsky]

I was going to **** you off half way through, i thought you were going to blame that on Confucius

'Hey, that's my car that is!'

 

[Diego]

Might be something fossilised. I know it's going to bring back samples from Mars, if the technology goes without any glitches.

Nope, just going to store the samples in vials and drop them at an easily recognisable site for retrieval by future missions.

 

[Commachio]

has no one watched aliens?

 

[Commachio]

'Hey, that's my car that is!'

dude wheres my...

sorry.

 

[Treble]

has no one watched aliens?

I've seen Total Recall.

 

[Diego]

I've seen Total Recall.

If we can find that martian oxygen plant it will make colonisation so much easier

 

[Commachio]

i like to look at the moon and the sun.

i've never once felt the urge to look any closer.

they are like snow, nice to look at.

 

[brb]

Viruses from bats will be the least of our problems. Good luck finding a vaccine for that.

The irony of looking for a way for people to carry on the hunan race beyond this planet, only for some unknown disease from Mars to wipe us all out here once and for all

Funny you should say that, the thought had crossed my mind

I assume the capsules holding the samples will only be opened under strict conditions. What's that you say, Wuhan...I raise you the Kent strain.