Mars, b*tches!

[PeteyPirate]

John McCain is Dave Chappelle's "Black Bush" skit come to life.

He wants to send a man to Mars.

 

[PeteyPirate]

And here is the skit to which I am referring.

 

[Beaker]

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

NASA supports some astronomy to search for near-Earth objects, but the agency’s efforts have been piecemeal and underfunded, backed by less than a tenth of a percent of the NASA budget. And though altering the course of space objects approaching Earth appears technically feasible, NASA possesses no hardware specifically for this purpose, has nearly nothing in development, and has resisted calls to begin work on protection against space strikes. Instead, NASA is enthusiastically preparing to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars on a manned moon base that has little apparent justification. “What is in the best interest of the country is never even mentioned in current NASA planning,” says Russell Schweick­art, one of the Apollo astronauts who went into space in 1969, who is leading a campaign to raise awareness of the threat posed by space rocks. “Are we going to let a space strike kill millions of people before we get serious about this?” he asks.

 

[Armchair_QB]

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

 

[Beaker]

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

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

 

[TrooperBari]

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

Except we can, in fact, prevent it.
http://fora.tv/2008/02/19/Neil_DeGrasse_Tyson_Death_by_Black_Hole

 

[JoelHammond]

One of Chappelle's finest moments.

 

[Starman]

John McCain is Dave Chappelle's "Black Bush" skit come to life.

He wants to send a man to Mars.

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 ****hole and give it to NASA, we'd be back on the moon by Christmas.

 

[Rex Harrison]

**** NASA. We need to worry about this world.

 

[Football_Bat]

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

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

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.