Why We Should Go to Mars

Padawanbater2

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Oh man, this is a great clip!

Dude brings up a very interesting point: Are we what life is or could life be something different?

What, to you, is the more interesting answer? If we discovered life on Mars, would you be more excited if that life evolved completely different than life on Earth or more excited if life originating on Mars shared Earth life's characteristics like DNA/RNA replication?


To me, I think it would be more exciting if we discovered an entirely new kind of life - something that was alive but didn't replicate through the standard DNA/RNA model like how life on Earth works

I think we'll have some of these answers by 2040-2050 after a decade of hands-on research with actual samples to study from the red planet herself!
 
qwizoking

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when your poor you live day to day, with a small income you live paycheck to paycheck and so on

why have we not matured?


as a body (not just govt, the 1% etc) we need to decide to look at the big picture, our personal desires beyond individual intrinsic needs shouldnt override our needs as a species or even close generations to come. we are selfish.. a quote by an author who slips me atm "says" if it can be done in your lifetime, your not thinking big enough"

well i deleted half my rant..went off topic lol


but that's what popped in my head after watching the last couple videos you posted
 
Padawanbater2

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qwizoking said:
why have we not matured?
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Now that's the million-dollar question, isn't it?

The answer touches politics, religion, economics, and every discipline of science and philosophy

The human condition pits minds against bodies, the intuitive urge for discovery against the primal need for survival

To see the bigger picture for what it actually is requires the abandonment of the ego and the acceptance and acknowledgment of the greatest good humanity could ever possibly achieve
 
Grandpapy

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Wouldn't it be cool to find out the "Red" comes from Toxic Algae blooms, and it wasn't always that way, not that it would slow us down any.
 
ZaraBeth420

ZaraBeth420

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There's like thousands of people who volunteered for 1 way trip to mars. That sounds scary. Going to Mars knowing you never coming back. Wow. But to each their own.
 
G

Glaucoma

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Personally, I think we should do it for the same reason JFK wanted to go to the moon. Cause it's there. I would take a one way trip if I could. Absolutely.

Evidence of life found on Mars will likely be just like here. We share too much material for it not to be that way, and we've never seen evidence of any other tree of life existing here on Earth besides our own. I think any fossil or existing life we find there will be our cousins.

I go with the idea that life in our solar system was likely seeded by extremophiles. Beyond our system is anybodies guess, but the smart money is on Carbon. Replication as we know it is pretty damned elegant, but there may be alternatives, sure. It's a big Universe.

You could possibly have something based on other elements similar to Carbon like Silica, but Carbon is both hugely abundant in the Universe and its bonds aren't typically permanent.

Then there's the whole "We're only able to interact with less than 10% of the matter in the Universe" thing. Who knows what's on the other side.
 
bird mcbride

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The fact is mankind has just as of recent, left the bone age. The days of absolute ignorance and superstition is finally getting behind us as we gain new technology and leave the cradle of planet earth.

I want to be the first person to grow plants in the Martian rocks, as we all know there will be no soil.
 
bird mcbride

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We, after many decades of excavation on the Martian surface will find the remnants of life some 30-40 feet below the surface. Life that will be very similar to the life we have found on Earth as all life came to Earth by falling from the heavens.

As we all know our beloved marijuana plant can take many forms given changes in environment. These evolutionary changes due to environment will alter the form/shape of specific life forms but DNA/RNA will be the same in each distinct species. Same for the moon.
 
TJ baba

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I just watched an interview with Elon Musk, owner of Tesla Car Company talking about reusable rockets that land back at landing station after it expends the energy to get the shuttle past earth's threshold. After that it falls down like a feather and is perfectly functional to slap another shuttle top to it for another launch
 
ttystikk

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'Why we should go to Mars'

Something worthwhile to do with all the money saved from rescinding corporate subsidies?

I haven't watched the clip yet but this one's obvious:

We as a human race either GTFO this rock, or we perish here. Simple as that.
 
ttystikk

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TJ baba said:
I just watched an interview with Elon Musk, owner of Tesla Car Company talking about reusable rockets that land back at landing station after it expends the energy to get the shuttle past earth's threshold. After that it falls down like a feather and is perfectly functional to slap another shuttle top to it for another launch
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Sounds great. It's been in the works since I was in college... and I'm looking at retiring soon.
 
ttystikk

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bird mcbride said:
We, after many decades of excavation on the Martian surface will find the remnants of life some 30-40 feet below the surface. Life that will be very similar to the life we have found on Earth as all life came to Earth by falling from the heavens.

As we all know our beloved marijuana plant can take many forms given changes in environment. These evolutionary changes due to environment will alter the form/shape of specific life forms but DNA/RNA will be the same in each distinct species. Same for the moon.
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Whoa dude, pass some of THAT over here!
 
greasemonkeymann

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bird mcbride said:
We, after many decades of excavation on the Martian surface will find the remnants of life some 30-40 feet below the surface. Life that will be very similar to the life we have found on Earth as all life came to Earth by falling from the heavens.

As we all know our beloved marijuana plant can take many forms given changes in environment. These evolutionary changes due to environment will alter the form/shape of specific life forms but DNA/RNA will be the same in each distinct species. Same for the moon.
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Ummm isn't that a contradiction in itself?
be the same in each distinctive species?
Like saying we will all have dna and rna but will be distinctively unique?
Yea... that's everything on the planet.
the circumstances of the entity and it's surrounding ecosystem is what dictates it's evolution, that's why I think it's somewhat amusing when people are saying life on other planets isn't possible.
The simply should say "life, as WE know it" wouldn't exist.
it's categorically ignorant for humans to assume what life can live off of, or where it can prosper.
I mean seriously...
 
greasemonkeymann

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TJ baba said:
I see it like this. If there is life elsewhere that's great. The next question is what can they do to benefit mankind?
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I feel ya.
but if you were an advanced species, looking at us from a far, seeing what we've done to this planet in a relatively short amount of time?
Fuck man... if that were me?
I'd do one of two things, either keep my foot on the gas pedal of the alien ship, and keep on going.
Or hit the button to eradicate us all...
Think about it...
If you were a super smart alien, which you'd have to be to conquer the physical limitations of space travel, if you were...
You'd be able to see very clearly that humans sure as shit shouldn't be trusted with anymore advanced technology...
Just my thoughts..
We chopped the trees all down, polluted the water, polluted the air, hell we even managed to fuck up the ozone,,,
Suffocated the ground with shitty hard, hot, black asphalt, which we then drive our cars all over, dripping a myriad of carcinogenic liquids onto... which ironically we raped the very environment for, to begin with..
Sigh...
 
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