mars has had water flows. - by jimjack
Printer's Devil on 15/12/2006 at 04:15
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I think if nothing else, its a good idea to feel out the solar system, if not for scientific interest, then at least to see if we can make use of anything the planets have to offer. Especially if fuel cells are to have any chance of becoming mainstream, we'll need more platinum than the Earth actually has, which means interplanetary mining (which by the way isn't sci-fi. Its already in the planning stages)
Now THAT would be ironic, wouldn't it? Using vast quantities of toxic rocket fuel (most of it burned in our atmosphere) to mine platinum from asteroids so we can manufacture fuel cells for
zero-emission automobiles! NASA suckles at the federal teat for a good reason--no current business model can justify space exploration. Only the fear of Chinese restaurants on Mars will kickstart the
SPACE RACE back to life.
RocketMan on 15/12/2006 at 04:27
Heheh :D
Mmmmalright well I'm not gonna touch that... I'm not complaining though cuz I like to hear about advances in space technology, not to mention all the cool shit they find out there......and errrrr cuz i'm looking to spend the rest of my life in the aerospace industry. You can't imagine how much fun it is to design anything that goes into space. Its complex as hell, but fun.
Pweeez don't kiwll my dweem :(
Ko0K on 15/12/2006 at 04:46
That white stuff looks like sediment of different color than the surrounding earth materials (mudflow?), and I highly doubt that's what they are referring to as water. Rather, what they are talking about is most likely the 'scars' throughout the upper portion of the picture that suggest past channelized flows.
To me that is interesting because what looks like a mountain range in that picture seems to have been eroded over time by landslides and storm runoff, just as canyons and ravines here on earth are carved out by the same processes. In other words, Mars might have had an atmosphere complete with clouds.
If Earth is on the same track as Mars, then it would make all the more sense to try and sustain a human colony on Mars sooner or later. Better yet, maybe we should scope out another planet that is a younger version of Earth. Who knows? Maybe we descended from Martians who thought Earth was a younger version of Mars?
belboz on 15/12/2006 at 05:29
Most nuclear waste is the gloves and shoe covers of every day workers handling radioactive material, these items have to be changed every hour as they become contaminated with radiation, this is the stuff they bury in the ground. So running a radio off a radioactive glove seams pretty odd.
the stuff from reactors gets recycled in to bombs, that they say they dont make anymore, but actually they do. All the bombs you saw get destroyed on tv was bollocks, you saw them destroy the lifting body, they kept the warheads, and carried on making more of them.
henke on 15/12/2006 at 12:44
HOLY SHIT!
Agent Monkeysee on 15/12/2006 at 15:24
Quote Posted by RocketMan
I don't think i had an example, but i think if the Earth's ecosystem becomes contaminated enough we won't have a choice about whether to leave or not. I dunno if it'll come to that but wouldn't it be nice if we had a way of decongesting the Earth of its overpopulated inhabitants? I didn't really want to dwell on that because this thread is about the water on mars which is a scientific investigation.
We could literally irradiate the entire planet and it would be more hospitable than Mars. Mars is not an alternative to a fucked Earth because no matter how fucked Earth would get
it's better than Mars.
Which means if we have the technology to live on Mars confortably we have the technology to live on Earth comfortably. My point is simply that Mars is not an alternative to Earth and the idea that Mars is even a remotely decent candidate if things got so bad we had to abandon ship is ludicrous. There are many reasons to explore and colonize other planets but "we need a lifeboat" is not one of them.
Rug Burn Junky on 15/12/2006 at 15:43
You're not the man we think you are at home.
ignatios on 15/12/2006 at 16:15
HOLD ME CLOSE NOW TINY DANCER
Agent Monkeysee on 15/12/2006 at 16:40
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
You're not the man we think you are at home.
What do you want from me I'm burning out of fuel up here alone.
Gorgonseye on 15/12/2006 at 17:13
Quote Posted by Agent Monkeysee
We could literally irradiate the entire planet and it would be more hospitable than Mars. Mars is not an alternative to a fucked Earth because no matter how fucked Earth would get
it's better than Mars.
Which means if we have the technology to live on Mars confortably we have the technology to live on Earth comfortably. My point is simply that Mars is not an alternative to Earth and the idea that Mars is even a remotely decent candidate if things got so bad we had to abandon ship is ludicrous. There are many reasons to explore and colonize other planets but "we need a lifeboat" is not one of them.
Venus anyone?
Anyone?
