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Mars, b*tches!

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by PeteyPirate, Jun 6, 2008.

  1. PeteyPirate

    PeteyPirate Guest

  2. PeteyPirate

    PeteyPirate Guest

    And here is the skit to which I am referring.
     
  3. Beaker

    Beaker Active Member

    This is as good as any place to post this....

    Gregg Easterbrook in the latest Atlantic on why there are far more important things for NASA to worry about:

    http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/asteroids

     
  4. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    There's no reason to worry about it because there's nothing they can do to prevent it.
     
  5. Beaker

    Beaker Active Member

    If you read the article, there is some promising research...but it's being done by the Air Force, not NASA.
     
  6. TrooperBari

    TrooperBari Well-Known Member

  7. JoelHammond

    JoelHammond Member

    One of Chappelle's finest moments.
     
  8. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Great idea. Take office on Jan. 20, pull out of Iraq by Valentine's Day, and we can have people on Mars by 2015.

    Take the money we're pouring into that shithole and give it to NASA, we'd be back on the moon by Christmas.
     
  9. Rex Harrison

    Rex Harrison Member

    Fuck NASA. We need to worry about this world.
     
  10. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Slowing down an asteroid by one mile an hour will dramatically alter its course over a couple of decades. If we can spot a rock 25 years out with Earth's name on it, we can send something up within five years and do what we have to do (short of blowing it up, in which case we get hit with a shotgun blast instead). Most asteroids are less than a mile in diameter, so it would be challenging but not impossible.

    We need to be spending more money finding these near-Earth rocks.
     
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