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- PoliticalMan922, on 07/13/2008, -1/+15That would be real cool if they brought back samples and showed that there was life on Mars. If we find microbes, voila, there are aliens out there...Just not green ones with cone heads. :P
- brainnovate, on 07/25/2008, -0/+12Wait till they bring back some virus that wiped out the martians a millions or so years ago!
- shutaro, on 07/14/2008, -0/+12Why buy one when you can have two at twice the price?
- fsjenkins2000, on 07/14/2008, -0/+10I agree with robbiemuffin. I mean don't these guys watch science fiction movies at all. 1. Bring alien material back to earth (check) 2. find mysterious biological life form (check) 3. Major Lab malfunction releases "Virus" into the air (check) 4. End of the human race as we know it (Double Check)
End of DIGG as we know it (single tear rolls down my cheek) - sanman, on 07/14/2008, -0/+10Fullerene carbon will be instrumental in helping us terraform Mars.
Graphene will enable us to build vast lightweight gas-impermeable domes to live in.
Carbon nanotubes may help us perform artificial photosythesis under the hostile extreme conditions where living photosynthetic organisms can't survive:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14297 ...
We can synthesize them from all Mars' CO2 atmosphere and icecaps. - EntangledPhysx, on 07/14/2008, -0/+7Unless we are the evolved martians that are the immune to the virus... dun dun DUN!!!
- powatom, on 07/14/2008, -0/+6We spend way more than that every year on things which are purely devoted to killing each other. $8 billion is a drop in the ocean compared to what humanity spends trying to wipe itself off the face of the earth.
- UtahApocalyse, on 07/14/2008, -2/+8agreed I have seen that plot in many movies, always goes bad VERY VERY bad.
- Rudegar, on 07/14/2008, -0/+6what is david Bowie's take on this ?
- Kenzan, on 07/14/2008, -0/+6-"and possibly microscopic life."
That's a rather HUGE optimistic stretch methinks. - digiguy, on 07/14/2008, -0/+6What if the stuff they find on Mars and other planets cures the people on earth?
- sotose, on 07/14/2008, -0/+5Isn't it obvious?
He's working for the martians. - inactive, on 07/14/2008, -0/+5andromeda strain run
- BenjaminsDiggs, on 07/13/2008, -2/+7Why go to Mars when you can bring Mars to us?
- knuckles, on 07/14/2008, -0/+5PREDICTION: This will end up costing $110 billion.
- nonpareil, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4"Sending people to Mars will probably not be possible before 2050..."
Are you ***** kidding me? 2050, damn near a century since we landed on the moon? - deathweaver108, on 07/14/2008, -1/+5I'll go
- Quenlin, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4Still a lot less than the Iraq war.
- cubbiesx, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3I agree with you starmanjones.
I also hope that surfing Saturn's rings will become a Olympic sport by 2012... - DeskFlyer, on 07/14/2008, -1/+4It's about damn time they figured out a robotic round trip to Mars is a heck of a lot easier than a manned one.
- mnky9800n, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3When the High Master hears of this he will surely cut off my plargh and hand it to me.
- elhaf, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3Well sure, from the moon, which is know to be sterile. We're talking about a war of the worlds here.
- teh_techie, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3Unless we're genetically similar to "martians", that virus would do ***** all to us.
- Gutterpunk, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2I've seen so many E3 crap on Digg that I read the headline as "Scientists Plan To Bring Rock Band From Mars"
- listrophy, on 07/14/2008, -1/+3I'm one of the most adamant pro-manned exploration people out there, but you're just a bit ahead of the game there, buddy. Even with infinite funding, meeting a "man on mars" timeline of 2018 is nearly infeasible... and we all know how little funding space agencies around the world receive (we DO know this, right?). I do like your spirit, though. =)
- Elderon, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2We all know this won't be possible. Everyone knows the earth will end on 2012 silly gooses.
j/k
This is really cool. I hope they are successful in this, but I must say I hate the waiting. 2018? come on! What did it take us for the moon? 7 years? why so long now? - masterm1nd, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2Yes, but haven't they been bringing non earth objects back to earth for a while?
- aimhelix, on 07/14/2008, -1/+3Ah.. bring back that Total Recall chick please! The one with the 'trits'.
- DavidinBoston, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2Don't tell me...Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, right?
- robbiemuffin, on 07/14/2008, -4/+6anyone else think that, even though it is cool science, it just doesn't sound smart ?
- powatom, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2Yeah, they may as well have said 'and possibly pink elephants'. Just because we haven't found any doesn't mean they don't exist. WHAT DOES SCIENCE KNOW?
- Quenlin, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2When Aliens invade, I'm showing them this post.
- maabus, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2Neil Armstrong Rocks Your Momma's HooHoo Hole!
- bincoder, on 07/14/2008, -1/+38 billion?
Me thinks just let JPL do it. International efforts involve paying a lot of people a lot of money so that they can do things in an inefficient manner. Microscopic life can be detected at the location, just send back the data, for free.
8 billion could place hundreds of different rovers on the planet and produce much more real information than shuttling dirt from one end of the solar system to the other. - inactive, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2NASA's Mars agenda is such a waste of money and considering we still have no planetary defense system, quite insane.
If we are destroyed by an asteroid who is going to give a ***** about fossil life on Mars? Yet another epic fail for NASA and the USA. - cubbiesx, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2"bring back rocks...and possibly Marvin the Martian."
- morcheeba, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2We spend about $8 billion per month in Iraq.
- Camaroman, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1WTF haven't they seen Species 2?
- DestroyFascism, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1NASA already know you have little chance of deflecting / destroying a planet killer. How you gonna move the inertia of a 25kl wide lump of rock moving at 40,000 feet per second. *****~ All the nukes on the planet would be like a pin prick.
- inactive, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Add this to your thinking sanman
Harnessing Bacterial Intelligence:
A Prerequisite for Human Habitation of Space
http://star.tau.ac.il/~eshel/papers/Riding-final.p ... - stevenk87, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1EVAAAAA!
- ChinezePanda, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Find a microbe on another planet...
WILL PROVE there is life out there.
And who says it has to be an intelligent species..
Maybe those microbes are tiny tiny tiny civilizations... that have already achieved time travel and pizza flavored doritos. - DestroyFascism, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1The world is round? no!
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -1/+2Bad idea. Martian bacteria, anyone?
Space rocks, microbes, etc. should be kept at the space station till we can determine what effects they could have on our enviornment. - starmanjones, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1we can move asteroids. i don't know of a single credible person that thinks we can't. a whole lot of research has been done. believe it or not you can change the orbit of an asteroid using the mass of a spacecraft. you can point a mirror at it and use the sun to create a jet and thrust.
the problem is time. we need time.
i've even read a paper on moving the earth with the gravity of something else. :D - Quenlin, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1Great, now I need to get a Martian PS3.
- majordanger, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1Oh it's only 1/2 kg return sample. Still almost as expensive as HP ink-jet ink.
- powatom, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1^^ facepalm.jpg
- rsHoratio, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1You are right, because obviously mars is just as close to the earth as the moon...
- Anfidurl, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1Alternate #3 - Virus will turn humans into nymphomaniacs, and you'll see a lot of formerly pregnant corpses.
/Stupid movie, but it's too perfect mentioning here. "No, I told them not to go!" -
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