Reply to: Mission to Mars or spend on Third World Aid?

[VectraMan]

The 'Infinite Improbability Drive' is more probable.

Bistromatics is the way forward.

[RichardCranium]

The 'Infinite Improbability Drive' is more probable.

It is, but NASA insists on using coffee, instead of tea, and so cannot get the Brownian motion to work properly.

[gingerjedi]

*And if you can't get your heads around warp drive, try the hyperspace option instead.

The 'Infinite Improbability Drive' is more probable.

[Andy2]

Instead of spending billions for mission to mars , use that money to fix up planet earth, which is affected by enormous amount of pollution .There is a gigantic garbage dump as big as USA swirling in the southern pacific ocean.

[BrilloPad]

The moon project gave us teflon, frozen meals and many other advances through technological development. There is no doubt that in conquering Mars, further gains will be made for mankind that just cannot be quantified at present.

The world population will explode over the next few decades and no amount of money will compensate for the lack of commonsense with regard to exercising birth-control. Population control is the only way to stop us all ending up in poverty. Religious dogma is the killer, and money is simply irrelevant.

"Location: Cell 6 Bedlam Ward"

Did they leave the door unlocked again, Scourer?

If they left the door unlocked I would be back up a crane.

What was wrong with his post? I can understand some may not agree with him : but it wasn't total nonsense.....

[gingerjedi]

f**k up - Shirley?

Yes but once we've mastered it we can just move on to another and another like a virulent galactic virus ...until an intelligent alien race develops a vaccine.

[Churchill]

That would create more poverty, the world is already overpopulated.

We'd do better going to Mars where we might learn the first tiny steps towards finding another planet to live on.

f**k up - Shirley?

[RichardCranium]

I have to agree with CyberTory!

"Location: Cell 6 Bedlam Ward"

Did they leave the door unlocked again, Scourer?

[GreenerGrass]

I think it's not just the destination but the feat of getting there, I am fascinated by whether the mission would be technically possible - at 2 years just to get to Mars there would be a fair chance they would never return.
At least the Russians are researching things, although I'm not sure about the wooden spaceship (it "wooden" fly).
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/07...-mars-mission/

It would be good to see a mission in our lifetimes, even if you are in your 80s or 90s and starving to death as the Indian-controlled IMF decides it won't give any aid to Britain after the great collapse of 2050, your SIPP and BTL portfolio having been confiscated by government a few years before in the aim of "fairness" for the "common good of Britain".

[Lockhouse]

I have to agree with CyberTory!

Me too. A CUK concensus?

[BrilloPad]

The moon project gave us teflon, frozen meals and many other advances through technological development. There is no doubt that in conquering Mars, further gains will be made for mankind that just cannot be quantified at present.

The world population will explode over the next few decades and no amount of money will compensate for the lack of commonsense with regard to exercising birth-control. Population control is the only way to stop us all ending up in poverty. Religious dogma is the killer, and money is simply irrelevant.

I have to agree with CyberTory!

[OwlHoot]

The moon project gave us teflon, frozen meals and many other advances through technological development. There is no doubt that in conquering Mars, further gains will be made for mankind that just cannot be quantified at present.

The world population will explode over the next few decades and no amount of money will compensate for the lack of commonsense with regard to exercising birth-control. Population control is the only way to stop us all ending up in poverty. Religious dogma is the killer, and money is simply irrelevant.

WHS

[Cyberman]

The moon project gave us teflon, frozen meals and many other advances through technological development. There is no doubt that in conquering Mars, further gains will be made for mankind that just cannot be quantified at present.

The world population will explode over the next few decades and no amount of money will compensate for the lack of commonsense with regard to exercising birth-control. Population control is the only way to stop us all ending up in poverty. Religious dogma is the killer, and money is simply irrelevant.

[scooterscot]

Mission to Mars or spend on developing country Aid?

[gingerjedi]

I don't think we need to worry about poverty in the UK, wealth equality is becoming a very real achievement of this government.