u just ignorant? or being serious



This post was edited by five33 on Aug 5 2011 12:37am

And how long until Total Recall?



umad?

You don't think if NASA sent out a call saying "Hey, we want a manned mission to Mars" that people from every state wouldn't be lined up for a chance to be selected? They would be genuine explorers.

As for how it benefits mankind, sooner or later we're absolutely going to need to go into space to survive as a species. That much should be obvious.

...the only obvious thing is that having to go into space to survive as a species is a science fiction pipe dream .

You clearly know nothing about cosmology, but since I'm not like you I won't withhold information that I claim to have. Instead I'll demonstrate that I'll actually have it.

The sun won't last forever. In a few billion years it will finish burning through its hydrogen supply and start helium fusion at its core. When that happens, the expanding forces will become greater than the gravitational forces causing the sun to swell up and engulf much of the inner solar system. The sun will become a Red Giant and the Earth will be gone. If we're not on other planets by the time that happens, our species is gone.

And that's assuming we don't have an ELE (extinction level event) from a large asteroid or have our climate patterns dramatically altered in the mean time.

So yes, we will need to leave sooner or later. The Earth isn't going to be our home forever.

...don't talk down to me child . Everything you posted I knew long before you started crapping your Huggies .

If you really knew that, then you wouldn't have called it a "science fiction pipe dream." It's almost as if you have two brains. One that you use for day-to-day activities, and one that you use to store information, and that second brain is stored in your attic where dust piles up on it due to years of inactivity.

...you need to spend more time on basic biology before you venture into cosmology !