Colonizing Mars!

[jerkbox]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20050908/sc_space/newcompanylauncheswithaimofcolonizingmars

what a bunch of assholes....sounds like some moron with a masters in marketing dreamed this one up....


"space commerce company"
" We settle in the new land, we turn it into a home and add value"

someone give me a gun so i can shoot myself now....

 

[samoth]

The company is named after the emerging inner-solar system economy that its members believe will soon develop, one that will be driven by the convergence of four frontiers: Earth, the Moon, Mars--including its two moons, Phobos and Deimos--and Asteroids.

"The beginnings of the solar system economy are happening as we speak," Homnick told Space.com. "This is not something that's fifty or one hundred years away, this is something that's going to be happening in the next couple decades."

WTF?

These guys are way too pretentious, nobody wants to put money in the space program. With the huge deal made over only a couple deaths in NASA recently, it's obvious the public does not care about this kind of science fiction crap. Couple decades? Heh, not the U.S. at least...

 

[BileStew]

This concept has about the same shot as Paulo's ball sack gaining all of his test back.

 

[jerkbox]

WTF?

These guys are way too pretentious, nobody wants to put money in the space program. With the huge deal made over only a couple deaths in NASA recently, it's obvious the public does not care about this kind of science fiction crap. Couple decades? Heh, not the U.S. at least...

i'm sure it's all quite possible, I just found the business jargon bullshit to be pretty funny....reminds me of fight club when he's talking about planet starbucks and all that.....

 

[superqt4u2nv]

someone give me a gun so i can shoot myself now....

 

[jerkbox]

now wait a minute....i posted that before

 

[SoreArms]

This concept has about the same shot as Paulo's ball sack gaining all of his test back.

a las, Horacio, your humor is lost on those that do not know of the chap

I giggled though

 

[redguru]

WTF?

These guys are way too pretentious, nobody wants to put money in the space program. With the huge deal made over only a couple deaths in NASA recently, it's obvious the public does not care about this kind of science fiction crap. Couple decades? Heh, not the U.S. at least...

NASA is a bloated bureacracy of politicians and grumpy underfed engineers. They oughta shut NASA down and privately fund space exploration.

 

[samoth]

NASA is a bloated bureacracy of politicians and grumpy underfed engineers. They oughta shut NASA down and privately fund space exploration.

I honestly don't know much about any of the politics involved, but how the hell is it that they ground the shuttles and start requiring billions of dollars for 'saftey' over only a couple deaths? Not to downplay their deaths, but c'mon, how many people die daily on the roadways? ...from alcohol? ... from ad infinitum? But that's acceptable! Christ, I would be honoured beyond belief to have the chance to die exploring space.

Honestly... I can see them shutting NASA down. Sans replacement. The U.S. needs to deemphasize stuff like fast food and drug industries and start focusing on the future. We WILL run out of oil. We WILL become overpopulated. We WILL face diseases ravaging large percentages of the human population. We WILL face global enviromental problems. There's nothing we can do about these problems; they are inevitable. So why do we turn face and focus on petty, meaningless-in-the-long-run issues? The issue probably involves money and politics, but meh, it was a rhetorical question anyways, lol.

 

[redguru]

I honestly don't know much about any of the politics involved, but how the hell is it that they ground the shuttles and start requiring billions of dollars for 'saftey' over only a couple deaths? Not to downplay their deaths, but c'mon, how many people die daily on the roadways? ...from alcohol? ... from ad infinitum? But that's acceptable! Christ, I would be honoured beyond belief to have the chance to die exploring space.

Honestly... I can see them shutting NASA down. Sans replacement. The U.S. needs to deemphasize stuff like fast food and drug industries and start focusing on the future. We WILL run out of oil. We WILL become overpopulated. We WILL face diseases ravaging large percentages of the human population. We WILL face global enviromental problems. There's nothing we can do about these problems; they are inevitable. So why do we turn face and focus on petty, meaningless-in-the-long-run issues? The issue probably involves money and politics, but meh, it was a rhetorical question anyways, lol.

The Space Shuttle is a B52 on steroids anyway, a dinosaur from the cold war that needs to be put out to pasture. Why hasn't a replacement vehicle been designed? Why have we not ever been to the moon since Apollo? When I was a kid TV shows were showing bases on the moon by now.

We need to return to the days when every step NASA made was an innovation. We have no longterm nationalistic goals, so NASA continues to die. I was hoping the X prize would at least spark corporate interest, but it hasn't. What do we do about it? I don't know.

 

[samoth]

I was hoping the X prize would at least spark corporate interest, but it hasn't.

I thought it would generage *some* interest out of the general populace, at least... lol.

Sometimes I seriously wonder what the "long-term goals" of this nation are...

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

a las, Horacio, your humor is lost on those that do not know of the chap

I giggled though

speak only good of the dead

 

[Delinquent]

I thought it would generage *some* interest out of the general populace, at least... lol.

Sometimes I seriously wonder what the "long-term goals" of this nation are...

This is something that should be a long term goal for Earth not just the US. Like you said in your previous post, we will eventually run out of precious natural resources and become overpopulated. If the US is the only country that develops such a program, are we gonna leave everyone else behind? They need to form a global space alliance which accepts private and public investments which I think will be the only way such a feat will work

 

[samoth]

This is something that should be a long term goal for Earth not just the US.

Oh definitely, only problem is eliminating all the bigotry and racism between people.