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Author Topic: Is NASA stunting human progress?  (Read 8363 times)

12AX7

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Re: Is NASA stunting human progress?
« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2007, 01:45:00 PM »
Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on October 30, 2006, 10:48:29 PM
I wonder if they've got Grandma's old recipe for Soylent Green in there.
Grandma IS the recipe for Soylent Green.  :-D
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Re: Is NASA stunting human progress?
« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2007, 06:28:36 PM »
Quote from: 12AX7 on January 14, 2007, 01:45:00 PM
Grandma IS the recipe for Soylent Green.  :-D

Lawl, I'll have to mark that one down in my copy of 'To Serve Man'! +1

Anyhow, no terraforming an entire planet at this point seems absolutely insane, a bit like trying to build a city with a child's shovel at the beach. Mars and the moon are utterly uninhabitable, and they'll be that way for the next hundred years.

The only colonization I can see happening in my lifetime is perhaps some offshoot of the Biosphere project (except working properly, and without Pauly Shore) being set up on other plantets, and then building more and more sealed settlements with metal imported from Earth or later mined from the planet itself.
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Re: Is NASA stunting human progress?
« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2007, 06:56:57 PM »
Its not necessary to terraform an entire planet before we can colonize a planet. We can very well live in tubes for a while and put on funky suits when we go outdoor if necessary.
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Re: Is NASA stunting human progress?
« Reply #28 on: January 14, 2007, 08:50:53 PM »
Quote from: TeraHammer on January 14, 2007, 06:56:57 PM
We can very well live in tubes for a while and put on funky suits when we go outdoor if necessary.
Like government housing and sunscreen, right? I agree; those work great when used properly, but, um...
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Re: Is NASA stunting human progress?
« Reply #29 on: April 13, 2007, 04:34:56 AM »
definly risks need to be taking,nasa's plan on putting a man on mars by 2012 wont happen if nasa are continueing like this. :slap
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