Curiosity about life on Mars.

[Coito ergo sum]

235 days to landing...mark your calendars!

Data collection is underway though: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogal ... =124459341

We need more of these missions.

We ought to be working on a manned mission. Oh, the shame of wasted opportunities and wasted time...

Human physiology is the barrier there. Anyone they sent would be a wasted mess and crippled in earth gravity by the time they got back

Who says they need to come back...

We can empty the prisons and the workhouses, and send them to Mars. No more need of the Treadmill, or the Poor Law.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Mars, now called OZ2?

[Coito ergo sum]

Colonists aren't supposed to come back.

Shhhhhhh......

Lord Huxley will want to tax their tea, and we saw where that went the last time...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Colonists aren't supposed to come back.

Shhhhhhh......

Lord Huxley will want to tax their tea, and we saw where that went the last time...

Meh, the British lost an empire. How does that affect me?

[Clinton Huxley]

Mars, now called OZ2?

At least Mars has fewer nasty bitey things....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Mars, now called OZ2?

At least Mars has fewer nasty bitey things....

Yep. The only thing that can kill you on Mars is ... Mars. Just one thing to watch out for.

[Clinton Huxley]

Mars, now called OZ2?

At least Mars has fewer nasty bitey things....

Yep. The only thing that can kill you on Mars is ... Mars. Just one thing to watch out for.

It's no place to raise your kids...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Mars, now called OZ2?

At least Mars has fewer nasty bitey things....

Yep. The only thing that can kill you on Mars is ... Mars. Just one thing to watch out for.

It's no place to raise your kids...

...there's nobody there to raise them if you did.

[Audley Strange]

I think we should be more aggressive in our attempts to find alien life, especially intelligent alien life. We should be beaming out signals in all available methods and frequencies shouting "Surrender to Humanity or be Destroyed." That should garner some attention.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think we should be more aggressive in our attempts to find alien life, especially intelligent alien life. We should be beaming out signals in all available methods and frequencies shouting "Surrender to Humanity or be Destroyed." That should garner some attention.

Sagan's anthill scenario comes to mind.

[Audley Strange]

Thing is I have a sneaking suspicion, it might be all ours. No idea why.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Thing is I have a sneaking suspicion, it might be all ours. No idea why.

It's entirely possible that there is only one technological civilization in the Universe at any one time. Nothing says there has to be more that we know of right now. That would be a shame, however. I'd love to talk to a B.E.M.

[Audley Strange]

Thing is I have a sneaking suspicion, it might be all ours. No idea why.

It's entirely possible that there is only one technological civilization in the Universe at any one time. Nothing says there has to be more that we know of right now. That would be a shame, however. I'd love to talk to a B.E.M.

Aye it would be nice to have a decent in-depth conversation with such. However I think it quite exciting to think that the entire playground might ours. If we can get through this manic depressive adolescent stage we're currently enduring we do still have a change of being able to grow up and populate the whole place. Imagining what varied species might be in the offing due to long term environmental adaptation with us as the common ancestor for them all sounds quite groovy to me.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Thing is I have a sneaking suspicion, it might be all ours. No idea why.

It's entirely possible that there is only one technological civilization in the Universe at any one time. Nothing says there has to be more that we know of right now. That would be a shame, however. I'd love to talk to a B.E.M.

Aye it would be nice to have a decent in-depth conversation with such. However I don't think it quite exciting to think that the entire playground might ours. If we can get through this manic depressive adolescent stage we're currently enduring we do still have a change of being able to grow up and populate the whole place. Imagining what varied species might be in the offing due to long term environmental adaptation with us as the common ancestor for them all sounds quite groovy to me.

I doubt we'd have a neighbor near enough to crowd us. I see it as us trying to find each other rather than trying to beat each other out for "space".

[Coito ergo sum]

Mars, now called OZ2?

At least Mars has fewer nasty bitey things....

Yep. The only thing that can kill you on Mars is ... Mars. Just one thing to watch out for.

It's no place to raise your kids...

The kids like it better on planet M&M.