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Mars Is A Hell Hole
The Atlantic ^
| 26/2/21
| Shannon Stirone
Posted on 03/04/2021 1:49:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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Aristophanes wrote a play called The Birds, in which some Athenians, fed up with the ills of their society, ask the birds to guide them to a better place. They finally find one, Nephrolokokkugia (cloud kukkoo land), that is so rarified even the birds can't live there. They end up coming back down to earth, to improve their own place in the world, Athens, as much as is feasible.
To: Eleutheria5
Ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:52:45 PM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(I like him-he reminds me of the late Joe tex. )
To: Eleutheria5
Mars Is A Hell Hole We knew this already because Elton John told us.
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them
If you did
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:53:03 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Eleutheria5
No one is asking her to go so why does she care? Also, she never heard of terra forming?
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:53:20 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
To: DIRTYSECRET
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:53:49 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DIRTYSECRET
18 SECONDS!
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:54:03 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Eleutheria5
Blue sky on Mars. That's a new one!
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:54:05 PM PST
by
z3n
To: DIRTYSECRET
... In fact it’s cold as hell...
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:56:08 PM PST
by
Bullish
(CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Well, there is no one there to raise them...if you did.
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:57:19 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: Eleutheria5
Possibilities:
- Elon drops Robotic Boring machines on Mars and builds massive tunnel networks.
- Crash Venus into Mars or Mars into Venus making a planet close to Earth's mass. Will require advances in phyics as moving venus. Could take centuries or even millenia to stabelize.
- Create a magnetosphere around Mars.
- Release the cynobacteria that can live on Mars and produce oxygen. Must find a way to retain atmosphere. Perhaps a solar wind shield would help.
- Create a wormhole to another solar system and steal one of their planets.
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:57:36 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: Eleutheria5
One of these fools who thinks that the money is better spent down the endless black hole of social programs than research and exploration. She’d be doing her laundry by hand and dead by 40 if all her ancestors had her opinion.
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:58:35 PM PST
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL)
To: Eleutheria5
I don’t think the Moon or Mars are optimal, to put it mildly.
The problem as I see it, is that this old earth is being overrun
by people too stupid to co-exist with. Some of them hold positions
of power, and are intent on denying basic human rights in short
order.
So the issue becomes, stay here and have your life taken from you
in real terms, or go somewhere else and eek out an existence
in real terms.
For me, eeking out an existence outranks living under no rights at all.
Humans have an uncanny ability to come up with solutions to seemingly
un-surmountable problems.
At some point, humans will inhabit other planets.
We might just as well get on with it.
Leave the Leftists to their paradise.
Once they kill each other, we could come back.
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:59:09 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
To: Eleutheria5
Mars is a hellhole. The central thing about Mars is that it is not Earth, not even close.
Mars doesn't have authoritarian Leftists trying to tell me what I can't read, can't say and can't think. So there's definitely a plus side.
To: Rummyfan
Why go to Mars? Because it’s there. And he can.
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:59:29 PM PST
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: Eleutheria5
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posted on
03/04/2021 1:59:59 PM PST
by
Trailerpark Badass
(“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
To: Eleutheria5
Hell hole? Then there must be someway that hunter or joe’s brothers can make a few bucks off of it then.
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posted on
03/04/2021 2:00:41 PM PST
by
farmguy
To: Eleutheria5
Larry Niven described Mars as “the junk heap of the system” fifty years ago. Nothing there worth the trouble of dropping down into that gravity well.
To: DannyTN
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posted on
03/04/2021 2:02:48 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: Yo-Yo
“Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it’s cold as hell
And there’s no one there to raise them
If you did”
is that lyrics in Rocket Man ?
To: Eleutheria5
One thing about Mars, in exploring space. We could have a point for the mnext step on this side of the astetoid field between Mars and Jupiter, where we could take the polar flights to ‘pole vault’ that field. Possibly, we could inhabit the LaGrange Point between Earth and Mars.
But, if you think ‘Mars is hell’, which other planet would you suggest?
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