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gang ah jee
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| NAVFC wrote: |
| How would life on another wrld pose a problem for christians? The bible doesn't say one way or another wether life was created else where and when it comes to space it is rather ambigous and only says "he created the heavens and everything in them" |
If you read the bible/quran literally then bacteria on Mars makes absolutely no sense at all. Non-fundamentalists shouldn't have too many problems with it though. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:54 am Post subject: ... |
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But I'm not really sure that the intent here is even to suggest that life previously existed on Mars. Rather, it's important news in terms of the feasability of being able to inhabit Mars in the future. If water is, indeed available on Mars, attempts to colonize/terraform/use it as a base would be massively facilitated.
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: Re: ... |
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| Nowhere Man wrote: |
But I'm not really sure that the intent here is even to suggest that life previously existed on Mars. Rather, it's important news in terms of the feasability of being able to inhabit Mars in the future. If water is, indeed available on Mars, attempts to colonize/terraform/use it as a base would be massively facilitated.
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I'm on the other thread where a poster believes that we can get rid of world poverty by first cutting NASA's meagre budget and backs up the statement with hearsay from another poster that heard something from some professors that said something about the subject at one time or another. I like the news and I think we should get to Mars eventually, but it should be #4 on the list that goes as follows:
1)Moon
2)Near-Earth asteroids
3)Venus (50 km above the surface where it's nice)
4)Mars
One place I'm really excited about, though not for human exploration just yet, is Ceres. It's about 1000 km in diameter and right in between Mars and Jupiter, a nice minor planet sitting right there where we can send probes to visit it pretty easily and has never been imaged with anything better than this:
Apparently it likely has a large ice layer underneath the surface that could hold more liquid water than the entire Earth and even some cryovolcanism. Note that a colony on Venus would actually have an easier time getting to Ceres than going from Earth because the larger orbital velocity means that you get there faster as well as the fact that the orbit is shorter making launch windows more frequent. See:
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| In a nation as rich as the USA, there should be be money for both space exploration and ending poverty. I mean, really, NASA's budget is $16 billion a year and the Iraq war costs about $69 billion a year. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| Hey now, a quagmire is a very expensive process that needs a lot of nurturing |
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