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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.
1 posted on 03/04/2021 1:49:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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Ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.


2 posted on 03/04/2021 1:52:45 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (I like him-he reminds me of the late Joe tex. )
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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

3 posted on 03/04/2021 1:53:03 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Eleutheria5

No one is asking her to go so why does she care? Also, she never heard of terra forming?


4 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)
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Blue sky on Mars. That's a new one!
7 posted on 03/04/2021 1:54:05 PM PST by z3n
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Possibilities:
10 posted on 03/04/2021 1:57:36 PM PST by DannyTN
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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.


11 posted on 03/04/2021 1:58:35 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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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.


12 posted on 03/04/2021 1:59:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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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.
13 posted on 03/04/2021 1:59:22 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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So is Baltimore.


15 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.)
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Hell hole? Then there must be someway that hunter or joe’s brothers can make a few bucks off of it then.


16 posted on 03/04/2021 2:00:41 PM PST by farmguy
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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.


17 posted on 03/04/2021 2:00:51 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (Proud Deplorable Neanderthal)
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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?


20 posted on 03/04/2021 2:04:32 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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Older people might remember the scare about "Martians" coming to Earth to dominate us.

If they ever did come, they would have been surprised to find out how warm it is here on Earth.

22 posted on 03/04/2021 2:06:27 PM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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What is it, Mr. Musk that attracts you personally to the desert?

Elon: It’s clean.


23 posted on 03/04/2021 2:07:09 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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I’m thinkin’ its still better than a dozen Libtard hell holes I could name.


25 posted on 03/04/2021 2:08:31 PM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: Eleutheria5

Mars sounds like the perfect solution to the criminal migrant problem...

We need the Musk deportation system finished ASAP...


27 posted on 03/04/2021 2:09:56 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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Why bother with Mars

It's a living parable.

March 4, 2021

The Mars Helicopter Could Charge up the Atmosphere Around Itself as it Flies

Plasma globes are a common enough sight in retails stores across the rich world. If you’ve ever seen one and gotten a chance to touch it, you’ve seen how the plasma will arc toward your touch creating a sense that you’re able to harness electricity like Thor.

That effect does not only take place on Earth – anywhere there is a charge build-up that causes a high enough electrical potential between two points to create an electrical glow or corona. Now a team at NASA think that a large charge build-up might occur when Ingenuity, Perseverance’s helicopter companion, takes to the sky.

>>> Ingenuity will operate in a naturally dusty atmosphere and could even possibly create its own miniature dust cloud when it takes to the skies in a few weeks.

https://www.universetoday.com/150377/the-mars-helicopter-could-charge-up-the-atmosphere-around-itself-as-it-flies/

What did Flora know when she was in the field of the golden sceptre, looking up at the First Light at the Big Wind on the Big Rock on Mars hill?

Now there was a gal way ahead of her time. :)

35 posted on 03/04/2021 2:14:43 PM PST by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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Mars? Mars is a hellhole.

But still nicer than Baltimore, Detroit and San Francisco combined.

36 posted on 03/04/2021 2:16:06 PM PST by ~Peter
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Shannon Stirone

37 posted on 03/04/2021 2:16:21 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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“Hell is....other people!”

- Jean-Paul Sartre “Huis Clos”


38 posted on 03/04/2021 2:16:50 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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