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- cnot3, on 12/04/2008, -2/+42Everyone knows there's no life on Mars! I mean, there was, but their entire civilization was destroyed when they opened up a portal to hell.
- charm803, on 12/04/2008, -4/+29I wish there was so we can shut up the religious nut jobs!
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Finally, after many, many years, men were successfully able to visit Mars.
They met some martians, and began comparing their cultures to each other.
Finally the subject came to religion, and the martians said, "Oh yes, we believe in God. As a matter of fact, His Son visited us!"
"That's interesting," said the earthman, "Christians say he visited our world, too."
The martian went on ecstatically, "We threw him a big party, a parade, had an entire week of festivities, and carved a great golden throne for him. How did you greet him?"
Sheepishly, the earthman replied, "We... we killed him." - Chjoma10, on 12/04/2008, -0/+22It could also mean delicious new recipes.
- jasdf, on 12/04/2008, -0/+15If I was offered a slot and told that I have 20 years to train for it I would without hesitation accept the position. I'm an unmarried introvert with a high level of technical inclination and education, who else would better fit the bill.
- JoshuaGross, on 12/04/2008, -0/+13No, it wouldn't. At all.
- TunaFishGangsta, on 12/04/2008, -0/+11FTA:
Human beings are germ condominiums—there are more bacteria living in your body than there are human cells, making you outnumbered in your own skin
that is a comforting thought, lol - nOcoNtrol926, on 12/04/2008, -0/+10the kind that causes three-boob syndrome.
- RogerStrong, on 12/04/2008, -1/+11>> Life on Mars could also
>> mean a nasty plague
>> or virus
Unlikely. It's hard enough for a virus on earth to jump to a different species. An alien virus would probably unable to cope with an earth-based host.
I'm many times more worried about some virus that hasn't been seen in tens of thousands of years spreading from ANY arctic, antarctic or Greenland ice core sample. - DiggasWAttitude, on 12/04/2008, -2/+12I hope there is no life on Mars so people don't accidentally kill it. On the same note, I wish whales never existed so that people wouldn't hunt them.
- pyroguy56011, on 12/04/2008, -1/+11Uh... if there's no life on Mars, what the ***** is there to destroy? Rocks? And who's going to notice we destroyed it after we're gone? Christ, we aren't destroying anything. We're using the resources at our disposal in the way that best benefits humans. If you have a problem with that, go life in nature without a single human invention please.
- MattZed, on 12/04/2008, -0/+9I guarantee you that the problem isn't a lack of volunteers. Imagine being enshrined in history as the first person to land on another planet.
If they were to go ahead with this and find the funding for it, there would be a line up around the block for volunteers.
Imagine the amount of time that sailors used to spend out in the middle of the ocean and how many things could go wrong out there. - Hegemony, on 12/04/2008, -1/+9I just don't buy that Martian "bacteria" could be harmful to us. Something that evolved COMPLETELY separately from life on Earth might not even have any sort of biochemical interaction with us. Even if it did, I can't imagine it would be capable of the sort of associations with our cells and tissues that cause disease. Immunologically speaking, we're in an arms race with bacteria and viruses. Assuming that martian bacteria even had anything to gain from colonizing us, they haven't been competing in the arms race. It's like fighting a sword-wielding ninja when you only have a pointy stick.
- twinklyJesus, on 12/04/2008, -0/+8Such as "How to Serve Man?"
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -0/+7I want 3 boobs!
- Lucas123, on 12/03/2008, -1/+8Dugg for the Locnaresque image. Time for Den to get involved here.
- arcticblue, on 12/04/2008, -2/+9Everyone knows the religious fanatics' response would be "It's a test of faith put there by Satan". Or they just flat out deny it and claim it's all a hoax.
- sgvprelude, on 12/04/2008, -0/+7What if it was the other way around? What if the martian bacteria cures human diseases like AIDS or even cancer. Better yet, what if they give us extraordinary powers or make us immortal? I read too many comic books.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -2/+8I hope there is only a red planet full of three boob chicks like on Total Recall. I don't care if one is fake, lol.
- SKLOKAZOID, on 12/04/2008, -0/+6Maybe the deadly bacteria's lethal flesh-eating is just its way of trying to communicate with us.
- gimmeslack12, on 12/04/2008, -1/+7Its a nice little philosophy to hope that there is nothing there so that we don't have to feel guilty about destroying another world. But the idea of us even getting to Mars is sooooo far off. I mean, the mission to Mars is going to be extremely dangerous and the more I find out how dangerous the more I would be very weary of being that first astronaut to go. I mean imagine the idea of a 1.5 to 2 year round trip in outerspace? Do you know how many things could go wrong!!!
- Chainheart2, on 12/04/2008, -2/+7When did a scientific discovery ever disturb the religious? Every time something that conflicts with a belief is found, the religious ones will just manipulate the belief to accommodate it. "God guides evolution." "God caused the big bang." "God put the fossils there." Trust me, if we ever find life, the only thing religious people will do is deny it or claim "God put the life there to deceive us." Very few will lose their faith.
- mikeoncampus, on 12/04/2008, -1/+6dugg for having the most awesome replies.
- MasterGrief, on 12/04/2008, -0/+5BANAnaBANANABANANANAH
nahnahnah
BANAnaBANANANANANANAH - Jaxelyse, on 12/04/2008, -0/+5Open your mind to me Quade...give me your hands!!
Getcha ass to Mars...Getcha ass to Mars... - RogerStrong, on 12/04/2008, -1/+5Reality just doesn't interest you, does it.
- haikuFU, on 12/04/2008, -0/+4Whales are delicious.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -9/+13Although he makes some valid points his fundamental point is ridiculous. Hope that there's no life so it's easier to spread our life - Yeah, no. We have plenty of room, resources and minds on this planet to make do with what we have and be responsible when/if we ever get to the point of colonizing space. Let's focus on not destroying our planet before thinking about potentially destroying another. When/if the time comes to that we as a species have the capability to colonize I'm sure we'll have the ability to go about it as responsibly as humanly possible and that has to be enough.
/rant - Derelict267, on 12/04/2008, -0/+4NEDM
- zantos420, on 12/04/2008, -0/+4if all the equipment is sterile and you go there you're not going to spread germs because unless you're a fool you're not taking your suit off or throwing intergalactic space poop around
- NotYourProdigy, on 12/04/2008, -0/+4Life doesn't wait. Although life in other planets is probable, I wouldn't hold your breath for any other planet in our solar system. The earth is the only possible planet for life in our solar system.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -1/+5This astronaut's reasoning behind not wanting life on Mars is lame. Treaties can be changed and the technology for terraforming Mars is a thousand years away at the least. Discovering actual microbial life on a planetary body besides Earth would be the premier scientific discovery of this century. Whatever hurtles might be caused by that discovery, they would be worth it.
- eqisow, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3Check out Firstborn, one of the great Arthur C Clarke's last novels, for a picture of coexisting with martian life.
- Chjoma10, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3Dugg for the dorkiest thing I've read in a long time.... which means smartest.
- OriginalReplica, on 12/04/2008, -1/+4"We have plenty of room, resources and minds on this planet to make do with what we have..."
Perhaps you haven't heard, but the sheer number of people here on Earth is putting a dangerous strain on the ecosystem. Now the responsible thing to do would be to trim down our numbers to a level that our technology and culture can safely impose on the Earth's ecosystem. Are you really prepared to support Eugenics? Because the only realistic alternative to population control is for Humanity to have somewhere else to go to relieve the strain on our planet. Yes we can all live more green, but the world population is still so huge that things like fresh water put short term human interest directly opposed to ecological interests. For example, do you divert a stream to irrigate fields during a severe drought, knowing that the stream is the primary water source for a wild life area? Who dies, the animals or the humans? We are already so overpopulated that decisions like this must be made all the time. New worlds is our only long term hope other than a severe human die off, bigger than the Black Plague. - thecheatah, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3Some religions say that there are aliens. Mine says that there are infinitely many earths beyond ours as well as life forms, cultures, continents, languages etc...
- arcticblue, on 12/04/2008, -1/+4Intelligent design, yeah, that makes sense.
- iamdan1, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2I've read many places that the human body is only 10% human cells, the rest is bacteria.
- Weebs43, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2Where in the Christian Bible does it state there can only be life on Earth?
The major claims are that humans were created in the image of God yet born with natural sin, and that Jesus was the savior. Not "Thou shalt deny martians". - HiMcDonough, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2Dugg for the reference to Dejah Thorris.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2Ballroom blitz!
- Harabeck, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2We will eventually need to colonize space. If we do nothing in that direction now, and only wait until we need it to start that kind of research and developement, well all be dead long before we can save ourselves.
- sockpuppets, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2Snozburry?
- 15thPD, on 12/04/2008, -1/+3I'm an evangelic Christian, and it wouldn't make a bit of difference to me. He didn't create such a vast universe, with so many galaxies, just to plop us right in the middle of it.
- OriginalReplica, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2I know that there are some fundamentalists out there that think that Earth is the center of all creation, but could you please point out in any real religious text where it says that life is only on Earth? I see the parts in Genesis where it says that God created all the life on Earth, but I don't see where it says that God didn't also create life in other place or any where that it says that Earth was even the first place God created life. If you are going to try to take a stand against people who value faith as much or more than facts, then you should really, really make sure you have your facts about religion straight. Because otherwise your disrespect is based on "faith" in the close mindedness of the religious.
- DraxusD, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2Didn't he invalidate his point a little bit there? He says he doesn't want to have to worry about contaminating earth or mars, but than says then law already requires we do. If we're already acting as if there is something to contaminate, how will it change if we find something?
- myadron, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2copy pasta
- HastyBoom, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1It's cold here.
- symbolicsorcery, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1All of your problems would be solved if you would just wish that humans never existed. Maybe you think that humans are inherently bad creatures.
Good and bad get their meaning from each other. Good is by definition that which is not bad. Bad is by definition that which is not good. The two concepts are forever in entanglement. Both need each other to exist.
The real solution to our problems is to see that they don't really exist. Everything which is in manifestation started out in unmanifestation, that is, it came from nothing. Between unmanifestation and duality there is only manifestation before the split into pairs of opposites. This is the unity which necessarily existed before duality emerged. Many mystics use the words Love, Light, or God to describe this unity. I think that the Caduceus of Hermes symbolizes what I'm trying to say. - inactive, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1No, not the train that rides your mom. I'm talking about things you've never seen before...boobs!
- haikuFU, on 12/04/2008, -2/+3Whatever. If by three boob chicks you mean three penis dudes, we might believe you.
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