NASA Off to Mars

Orando Broom

I for one am glad that man will continue to explore space. I think it is the pinnacle of the human experience and only ever acts for the betterment of mankind.

What do you guys reckon money blasted into the void of space or well spent?

Also did any of you guys ever get even a teeny bit sad when you realised that the dream of ever getting into space bypassed you? You were probably 15 and you hadn't just got 9a's in the Leaving Cert.

Captain Darling

I wanna go to Marz.

mike65

Prefer to read NAMA off to Mars.

Orando Broom

Nama would probably spend £450trillion putting the dusty bones of a dog on Mars' surface.

El Weirdo

Orando Broom wrote: »

Also did any of you guys ever get even a teeny bit sad when you realised that the dream of ever getting into space bypassed you? You were probably 15 and you hadn't just got 9a's in the Leaving Cert.

If you didn't skip ahead and do the Leaving so early, you might have had a better chance.

Also,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPhUr-T6UM

Conor108

Isn't it like 2037-ish they plan to get there? The Space Launch System they just revealed is only going to launch in 2017 unmanned. Way to go yet guyzz.

Anyway at the rate Kepler is discovering exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) we'll probably find a lovely habitable planet with liquid water on it's surface inside of a year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0

MagicMarker

Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars.

Biggins

Well we seemed to have screwed up our first planet - so let go to another one and see if we can screw up more!

mike65

Of course we have been there before sort of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhLHAKoK35w

looky loo

Yes money well spent, if I had a chance to go I would.

Orando Broom

mike65 wrote: »

Of course we have been there before sort of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhLHAKoK35w

I saw a fella ate a shnake in that. And not in the gay way fella's ate shnakes.

Duggy747

Quuuuuuaaaiiid, start the reactor!!

lucozader

http://i47.tinypic.com/xkpzkh.gif

marty morrissey is on mars

nirvanaholic

Mars, the future home of earth's civilisation

Tragamin2k2

Orando Broom wrote: »

You were probably 15 and you hadn't just got 9a's in the Leaving Cert.

What age were you doing the leavin?

Orando Broom

Tragamin2k2 wrote: »

What age were you doing the leavin?

17. But to come to the attention of NASA in Ireland you'd have to be a birra ovva genius yerknowwarraImean, so ergo it would be logical that you'd be skipped a few years and hence doing the leaving cert at a much younger age than is normal.

Tragamin2k2

i suppose :cool: i remember checkin the nasa website to see if they were taking CVs or what when i was around 14, they werent

hatrickpatrick

Like it or not, one day this planet IS going to become uninhabitable for human beings. Whether thanks to the Sun burning out and expanding, or thanks to an asteroid or some other kind of disaster, this place will not exist forever.

If the ultimate purpose of humanity is the continuity of itself (which seems to be the ultimate purpose of all life forms, not just us) then logically speaking every cent we spend on space exploration is the best money which has ever been spent in history. Every step we take towards colonizing foreign planets is a step closer to ensuring the continuity of our species when the sh!t hits the fan at home.

whatsamsn

MagicMarker wrote: »

Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars.

as of next year:
"get yer arse to mars" sadly.

KeithAFC

Waste of money. Nothing to see in my opinion. Should focus on doing something else with the money. Like throwing a few bin bags into space to help clear up our landfill sites.

Saila

I thought it was nestle?

texidub

ESA have Mars plans too. At the moment, there's a bunch of so-called 'marsonauts' simulating the journey to Mars in a Moscow facility.

http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Mars500/SEMKGSUTTRG_0.html

Def not a waste of money.. more like the peak of human achievement, IMO. Spending millions on a soccer player on the other hand...

Capt'n Midnight

nirvanaholic wrote: »

Mars, the future home of earth's civilisation

Why would we climb out of one gravity well just to trap ourselves at the bottom of another ?

Mars is dark, at best it only gets 43% of the sunlight we get here. At worst...
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast11oct_2/
October 11, 2001: A pair of NASA spacecraft, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Hubble Space Telescope, is giving scientists a ringside seat for the biggest global dust storm seen on Mars in several decades. The extraordinary storm, which first enveloped the Red Planet three months ago, is finally subsiding -- but researchers say it could flare up again at any time.

JONJO THE MISER

Conor108 wrote: »

Anyway at the rate is discovering exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) we'll probably find a lovely habitable planet with liquid water on it's surface inside of a year.
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Yeah check this out http://www.space.com/12915-habitable-alien-planet-hd-85512b-super-earth.html.
Only a matter of time before we can found colonies on other planets, hopefully within the next 100 years.
But who will control these planets, the U.S.A?
Then we could have the settlers demanding independence and the like.
Or maybe Russia, Japan etc will all get there own planets.

Krusader

This is what happens to you on Mars

JupiterKid

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Like it or not, one day this planet IS going to become uninhabitable for human beings. Whether thanks to the Sun burning out and expanding, or thanks to an asteroid or some other kind of disaster, this place will not exist forever.

If the ultimate purpose of humanity is the continuity of itself (which seems to be the ultimate purpose of all life forms, not just us) then logically speaking every cent we spend on space exploration is the best money which has ever been spent in history. Every step we take towards colonizing foreign planets is a step closer to ensuring the continuity of our species when the sh!t hits the fan at home.

Agreed. But I think humankind will probably go extinct a good while before the sun expands. In less than a billion years, however, the sun will have grown too hot for advanded life to live on Earth according to scientists.

NASA has been going to Mars since the Mariner 4 mission of 1964-65 which sent back the first close up photos of the Martian surface. It landed the amazing Viking landers back in 1976. We know a lot about Mars thanks to five decades of unmanned Mars exploration.

The next major step is a manned Mars mission. It will happen. It is human nature to explore.

JONJO THE MISER

Biggins wrote: »

Well we seemed to have screwed up our first planet - so let go to another one and see if we can screw up more!

Far away planets are always greener:D

Savage Tyrant

KeithAFC wrote: »

Waste of money. Nothing to see in my opinion. Should focus on doing something else with the money. Like throwing a few bin bags into space to help clear up our landfill sites.

Nothing to see?...If you're absolutely sure then email NASA and tell them not to bother wasting their time and money. I'm sure they'll take your word for it. :rolleyes:

Space Exploration will be the future direction the Human Race will have to take to continue to survive and expand. Without it, we WILL become extinct a lot sooner.

iamstop

We should deffo be further on in the progress of space travel by now. All these pointless and needless wars between 'nations' is a huge draw on resources.

JupiterKid

NASA have today unvelied the new Space Launch System (SLS) which is designed to have its maiden flight in 2017 and carry astronauts beyond Earth orbit to destinations such as the Moon, the asteroids and perhaps ultimately Mars.


The NASA SLS at launch (simulation)

opinion guy

Crosáidí wrote: »

This is what happens to you on Mars

Ironically enough this is pretty much how Arnie looks these days anyhow.....

sellerbarry

I wonder which studio they will stage this one in? Mars me arsx.

Marcus_Crassus

See you at the party, Richter!

opinion guy

I got fiiiiiiive kids to feed......

nyarlothothep

Come on Cohaagen, you got what you vant, give zeez people ayre

Sky King

Humankind are going nowhere home slices.

When the sun is fukered, our nearest star would take 72,000 years to get to at the speed of voyager 1..

Gliese 581 is a near star too and it has planets around it that scienticians think could possibly support life. Lookin at about 350,000 years to get there using conventional propulsion.

So someone better invent a warp drive or workhole or some sh!t, dawgz.

UglyBolloxFace

For a memory of a lifetime....recall, recall, reeecaaaaaaaaaaall.

Sky King

It was a good movie in fairness.

Biggins

Sky King wrote: »

Humankind are going nowhere home slices.

When the sun is fukered, our nearest star would take 72,000 years to get to at the speed of voyager 1..

Gliese 581 is a near star too and it has planets around it that scienticians think could possibly support life. Lookin at about 350,000 years to get there using conventional propulsion.

So someone better invent a warp drive or workhole or some sh!t, dawgz.

There might be some hope for us yet.

http://www.thejournal.ie/steam-bath-planet-could-support-life-say-astronomers-224688-Sep2011/

AlmightyCushion

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Why would we climb out of one gravity well just to trap ourselves at the bottom of another ?

Because gravity is kind of important for humans. Also, something planet sized generally comes in handy for housing billions of people and grow the food and resources needed to sustain them. By the time we get to the stage of large scale colonies on other planets and where people actually call them home, I think it's relatively safe to say our propulsion technologies would have advanced to the stage where a little gravity isn't that much of a problem.

ChopShop

Captain Darling wrote: »

I wanna go to Marz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rurngpm3d4

Capt'n Midnight

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Because gravity is kind of important for humans. Also, something planet sized generally comes in handy for housing billions of people and grow the food and resources needed to sustain them. By the time we get to the stage of large scale colonies on other planets and where people actually call them home, I think it's relatively safe to say our propulsion technologies would have advanced to the stage where a little gravity isn't that much of a problem.

To the tune of home on the range

Home on Lagrange (The L5 Song)

Oh, give me a locus where the gravitons focus
        Where the three-body problem is solved,
        Where the microwaves play down at three degrees K,
        And the cold virus never evolved.                       (chorus)

CHORUS: Home, home on LaGrange,
             Where the space debris always collects,
             We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
             Solar power and zero-gee sex

We eat algea pie, our vacuum is high,
        Our ball bearings are perfectly round.
        Our horizon is curved, our warheads are MIRVed,
        And a kilogram weighs half a pound.                     (chorus)

If we run out of space for our burgeoning race
        No more Lebensraum left for the Mensch
        When we're ready to start, we can take Mars apart,
        If we just find a big enough wrench.                    (chorus)

I'm sick of this place, it's just McDonald's in space,
        And living up here is a bore.
        Tell the shiggies, "Don't cry," they can kiss me goodbye
        'Cause I'm moving next week to L4!                      (chorus)

.

rossie1977

two weeks......twooo weeeks

Chuck Stone

Two weeks.... two weeks.... twooooo weeeks... weeeeeaaaaaagghhaaAAAA etc

I don't see why we have to send actual human beings to Mars. It's far more efficient to send robotic missions out to do our exploring for us.

lcrcboy

Tragamin2k2 wrote: »

i suppose :cool: i remember checkin the nasa website to see if they were taking CVs or what when i was around 14, they werent

Im sure if you went through the US Air-force you could some how manage to get into NASA, but Im not sure if you would get clearance because you were born in a different country, although maybe all you need is US citizenship.

nirvanaholic

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Why would we climb out of one gravity well just to trap ourselves at the bottom of another ?

Mars is dark, at best it only gets 43% of the sunlight we get here. At worst...
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast11oct_2/
October 11, 2001: A pair of NASA spacecraft, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Hubble Space Telescope, is giving scientists a ringside seat for the biggest global dust storm seen on Mars in several decades. The extraordinary storm, which first enveloped the Red Planet three months ago, is finally subsiding -- but researchers say it could flare up again at any time.

The sun isn't gonna stay the same size forever. When its large enough to perhaps support human life it may become our new home....we've got roughly a billion years to find a way to live with dust storms...time to put ideas together

Come to think of it, lucky the mars exploration rover 'opportunity' wasn't on the planet during this storm as it would have been destroyed it!

windingo

iamstop wrote: »

We should deffo be further on in the progress of space travel by now. All these pointless and needless wars between 'nations' is a huge draw on resources.

To be honest I think that's what it would take for space fairing nations to step up their game in exploration, what I mean is, going to the moon was really a war between two nations trying to out do each other, the draw on resources being the building of the equipment to get there. I dunno, what do you guys think?

Standard Toaster

windingo wrote: »

To be honest I think that's what it would take for space fairing nations to step up their game in exploration, what I mean is, going to the moon was really a war between two nations trying to out do each other, the draw on resources being the building of the equipment to get there. I dunno, what do you guys think?

Baby, you make me wish I had three hands.