Water On Mars!

Sorry. Had to.

 

My biggest beef about space exploration? The fact we're spending millions (billions?) on looking for water on a planet it takes 27 months to get to. But we're not finding an alternative to oil/gas as a primary energy source.

 

Is that alternative energy source, 2MCM, or the reason we're looking for water on Mars? That is, so we can grow shit there?

 

That's your alternative energy source. One of them, anyway.



But there are other issues to consider, as noted by this journal entry at Slashdot.

The Wall Street Journal is starting to take notice, as well.

There's a lot of minerals we consider essential --- or we would if we'd heard of them and realized what they're used for --- that the Earth is running out of. Probably large quantities of those elements in the asteroid belt.

 

Wow. Seriously, shit like that makes me think the end is really, really near.

And how (or why!?) do you find that stuff?

It's amazing, and interesting, and yet depressing.

 

I read Slashdot daily. That actually turned up a couple of months ago.

The fact that we're running out of basic resources should be enough to get anybody's attention but there are those who still would rather save a buck on their taxes than save the human race.

 

So what you're saying is ... THERE'S HOPE FOR NEWSPAPERS AFTER ALL!