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[Bud Brewster]

Surprisingly enough, I'm sort of against manned missions to Mars.

I mean, what's the point? We spend billions of dollars, we endanger the lives of brave people, and we have to wait a year just for them to call and say. "Hey, folks! Traffic was light and we arrived safe and sound. Wish you were here!"





And if we're real lucky, our astronauts will find . . . bacteria.

Jeez, we're up to our snoz in bacteria, right here on Earth. My kitchen has a couple of million varieties, even after I clean it!

I know, I know. We want Martian bacteria. But again, why?

To prove life can evolve? The only people who don't believe that already are the folks convinced God made it all, both here and everywhere else. We're not going to solve that question with a Petri dish filled Marvin the Martian Microbe.

So far, I still don't get the point.

Okay, so maybe we should go to Mars to learn if we can establish colonies on other planets. It that it?

Again, why? If we want colonies in space, the Moon is much closer and the weather is better. No sandstorms.

Build them at the lunar North and South poles and you'll never even have to wear sun block while your gazing up through the transparent dome at the stars. Meanwhile, the sun will obediently go 'round and 'round the horizon, providing solar power all the time.





And since there's no sandstorms, the solar panels won't blow over the way they would on Mars while they're desperately struggling to squeeze a little power out a sun that's 34 million miles further away.





Is the Moon sounding better to you yet? If not, here's more good news.

Observatories on the Moon don't have any atmosphere to peer through, and since the moon takes 28 days for each rotation, the telescopes will have long attention spans when asked to concentrate on a given star, nebulae, or galaxy.

But on Mars . . . well, not so great for observatories. Worse than Earth, actually.

So, when it comes to celestial real estate, Mars is a bad investment. It's located in the boondocks (like northern Texas, only more so), it's windy and cold (like Minnesota, only worse).

The Moon, however, is 142 times closer to us. Compared to Mars, it's conveniently located to schools, hospitals, and shopping. It's always sunny, and it has a great view of Earth if you buy property on the good side of town.





Ladies and gentlemen, I'm voting for a stylish Howard Johnson on the Moon, instead of a Motel 6 on Mars.

Anybody agree?
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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[ShadowLandz100]

Hey . . . I agree with what you said . . . but what if our Earth was in the cross hairs of a meteor, a planet killer heading directly for us with the X in our town or city? End of story for us humans.

Having a colony on Mars would greatly improve our chances of survival. Even a moon colony would be great.

But I like to dive into some real far out and outlandish theories, and here is one of them . . . hang on, I love the Ancient Alien shows, and from some of the shows comes that in ancient India there were advanced civilizations that possessed space travel to the Moon, Mars, and other planets.

Yeah, sounds kinda outlandish, but some photos from the Moon taken by NASA have shown what looks like ancient buildings and towers. There are some images on the internet, but some images have been altered ??? some say by NASA, who doesn't want the truth known about these ruins.

Even Mars has some strange things that have been photographed by NASA but are kept from us, structures that look like plastic tubes going through canyon walls. Some look like they are broken.

Some photos show large domes like those on the Moon. These photos have been kept from the public, but some have surfaced. The Ancient Indian books ??? the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, thousands of years old ??? tell of these ancient cultures and of wars that even used nuclear weapons. Some areas in India are still radioactive, and some ruins have evidence of intense heat glass, like stone walls that were in some blast zone.

Like I said, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have colonies other than Earth, and we may indeed find some ancient underground remains like my model shows that I put into our model section. These Ancient Alien shows got me to research, and I bought the Mahabharata, and it is an interesting read.

I just like weird and strange stuff.

Karl
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"Interstellar Space travel is really difficult!"

http://nathangeffen.webfactional.com/spacetravel/spacedifficulties.php