They found *something* on Mars...

...but won't tell us for a few weeks.

It's Elvis! I bet it's Elvis!

Some new space dust I bet. Or some lame microorganism.

I wish they found proof of an alien life form. It has to be this...

I wish they found proof of an alien life form. It has to be this...

johnd13

I wish they found proof of an alien life form. It has to be this...

johnd13

[QUOTE="johnd13"]

I wish they found proof of an alien life form. It has to be this...

MrPraline

Probably proof of water on Mars.Pittfan666

Liquid water? other than that, the polar ice caps are... ice.

Sometimes I wonder if this space stuff is just a waste of tax dollars. Why spend millions of dollars to bring back some stupid dust from the moon? That money could be better spent elsewhere.

first one to post a giorgio tsoukalos meme gets shot in the headMrPraline

[QUOTE="MrPraline"][QUOTE="johnd13"]

I wish they found proof of an alien life form. It has to be this...

Inconsistancy

[QUOTE="MrPraline"][QUOTE="johnd13"]

I wish they found proof of an alien life form. It has to be this...

Inconsistancy

Event that would be enough to send the religious right into a fit. "It's a liberal conspiracy!"

Mark my words. Mark my words.

:|

bigfoot2045

Cool, I wanna know now though.....:(

Sometimes I wonder if this space stuff is just a waste of tax dollars. Why spend millions of dollars to bring back some stupid dust from the moon? That money could be better spent elsewhere.

ShadowMoses900

Unless you're one of those kooks who beleives the world has a pre-defined date with death, at some point we're going to have to get off this rock.

Right now we're just taking baby steps, but that's how you learn to run.

A Mass Relay.

Sometimes I wonder if this space stuff is just a waste of tax dollars. Why spend millions of dollars to bring back some stupid dust from the moon? That money could be better spent elsewhere.

ShadowMoses900

Not really, it's only a few "billions" of dollars, compared to our trillions of dollar budget and hundreds of billions of dollars in military alone.

It's not a waste to explore, and it advances science here on Earth, to better understand the solar system. That and, there often are spin-offs from these ventures into the ~"unknown".

People like you probably would have told the Spanish government "don't send Columbus around the world, we already know it's flat"

A Mass Relay.

leviathan91

Sometimes I wonder if this space stuff is just a waste of tax dollars. Why spend millions of dollars to bring back some stupid dust from the moon? That money could be better spent elsewhere.

ShadowMoses900

This is shaping up to be the best space mission ever. I mean...

"The rover will soon try out its rock-boring drill for the first time on the Red Planet, scientists have said."

How they can use rock and boring in the same sentence, I have no idea!

[QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

Sometimes I wonder if this space stuff is just a waste of tax dollars. Why spend millions of dollars to bring back some stupid dust from the moon? That money could be better spent elsewhere.

Inconsistancy

Not really, it's only a few "billions" of dollars, compared to our trillions of dollar budget and hundreds of billions of dollars in military alone.

It's not a waste to explore, and it advances science here on Earth, to better understand the solar system. That and, there often are spin-offs from these ventures into the ~"unknown".

People like you probably would have told the Spanish government "don't send Columbus around the world, we already know it's flat"

I agree with what you're saying but the bolded part always makes me:lol:.

People of the time of Columbus already knew the world was round...hell the methods of navigation they used required a spherical Earth to work.

Sometimes I wonder if this space stuff is just a waste of tax dollars. Why spend millions of dollars to bring back some stupid dust from the moon? That money could be better spent elsewhere.

ShadowMoses900

[QUOTE="br0kenrabbit"]

[QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

Sometimes I wonder if this space stuff is just a waste of tax dollars. Why spend millions of dollars to bring back some stupid dust from the moon? That money could be better spent elsewhere.

Pirate700

Unless you're one of those kooks who beleives the world has a pre-defined date with death, at some point we're going to have to get off this rock.

Right now we're just taking baby steps, but that's how you learn to run.

My post was pro-space exploration. I'm just taking a longer view of things.

Spin-off technology is nice, but that's not really the point.

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

[QUOTE="br0kenrabbit"]

Unless you're one of those kooks who beleives the world has a pre-defined date with death, at some point we're going to have to get off this rock.

Right now we're just taking baby steps, but that's how you learn to run.

br0kenrabbit

My post was pro-space exploration. I'm just taking a longer view of things.

Spin-off technology is nice, but that's not really the point.

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"][QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

Sometimes I wonder if this space stuff is just a waste of tax dollars. Why spend millions of dollars to bring back some stupid dust from the moon? That money could be better spent elsewhere.

br0kenrabbit

Not really, it's only a few "billions" of dollars, compared to our trillions of dollar budget and hundreds of billions of dollars in military alone.

It's not a waste to explore, and it advances science here on Earth, to better understand the solar system. That and, there often are spin-offs from these ventures into the ~"unknown".

People like you probably would have told the Spanish government "don't send Columbus around the world, we already know it's flat"

I agree with what you're saying but the bolded part always makes me:lol:.

People of the time of Columbus already knew the world was round...hell the methods of navigation they used required a spherical Earth to work.

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

[QUOTE="br0kenrabbit"]

Unless you're one of those kooks who beleives the world has a pre-defined date with death, at some point we're going to have to get off this rock.

Right now we're just taking baby steps, but that's how you learn to run.

br0kenrabbit

My post was pro-space exploration. I'm just taking a longer view of things.

Spin-off technology is nice, but that's not really the point.

They've made contact with biker mice.

Spin-off technology alone should be enough to convince naysayers that space exploration is a good investment. You'd think the whole learning how to prevent a massive meteor impact would be enough but apparently people think something else would save our ass.Ace6301

Prayer.

That's what they'd do around here, anyway.

And when that doesn't work, it's the homosexual liberal elites fault.

[QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

Sometimes I wonder if this space stuff is just a waste of tax dollars. Why spend millions of dollars to bring back some stupid dust from the moon? That money could be better spent elsewhere.

br0kenrabbit

Unless you're one of those kooks who beleives the world has a pre-defined date with death, at some point we're going to have to get off this rock.

Right now we're just taking baby steps, but that's how you learn to run.

If you're referring to the possibility of running out of resources, well, probably. We might have a solution by then. But none of that solves the big issue named the Sun. 5 billion years and this Solar System is fvcking toastbrucewayne69

5 billion years is plenty of time to procrastinate. We'll do something in the next one or two billion, I'm sure. Or three at the most.

Maybe four.

[QUOTE="brucewayne69"]If you're referring to the possibility of running out of resources, well, probably. We might have a solution by then. But none of that solves the big issue named the Sun. 5 billion years and this Solar System is fvcking toastbr0kenrabbit

5 billion years is plenty of time to procrastinate. We'll do something in the next one or two billion, I'm sure. Or three at the most.

Maybe four.

But then there's these a$$holes.

Also aliens.

They found animo acids or some other kind of bioorganic molecule.

[QUOTE="br0kenrabbit"]

[QUOTE="brucewayne69"]If you're referring to the possibility of running out of resources, well, probably. We might have a solution by then. But none of that solves the big issue named the Sun. 5 billion years and this Solar System is fvcking toastleviathan91

5 billion years is plenty of time to procrastinate. We'll do something in the next one or two billion, I'm sure. Or three at the most.

Maybe four.

But then there's these a$$holes.

Also aliens.

[QUOTE="brucewayne69"]If you're referring to the possibility of running out of resources, well, probably. We might have a solution by then. But none of that solves the big issue named the Sun. 5 billion years and this Solar System is fvcking toastbr0kenrabbit

5 billion years is plenty of time to procrastinate. We'll do something in the next one or two billion, I'm sure. Or three at the most.

Maybe four.

Some new space dust I bet. Or some lame microorganism.

Pirate700

No one else raising an eyebrow to the whole "in a few weeks" bs you know what else is in a "few weeks" December 21st odd isn't is. Guerentee whatever it will end us all or something bad is about to happen nowps3rev

I remember the last time NASA hyped a "big announcement" btw. It was so disappointing I forgot what it was, but was not too long ago. Maybe this year or 2011.MrPraline

[QUOTE="MrPraline"]I remember the last time NASA hyped a "big announcement" btw. It was so disappointing I forgot what it was, but was not too long ago. Maybe this year or 2011.Tylendal

[QUOTE="MrPraline"]I remember the last time NASA hyped a "big announcement" btw. It was so disappointing I forgot what it was, but was not too long ago. Maybe this year or 2011.Tylendal

[QUOTE="br0kenrabbit"]

[QUOTE="brucewayne69"]If you're referring to the possibility of running out of resources, well, probably. We might have a solution by then. But none of that solves the big issue named the Sun. 5 billion years and this Solar System is fvcking toastMrGeezer

5 billion years is plenty of time to procrastinate. We'll do something in the next one or two billion, I'm sure. Or three at the most.

Maybe four.

There are other sources of energy other than the sun.

And, you now, there are other suns.

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"][QUOTE="MrPraline"] Doubt very much they would announce it to the world even if they did.Pirate700

Actually I was referring to the simplest life form. Believing it' s about intelligent life would be too much even for an optimist like me.