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Feed all the starving babies or send a man to Mars ?

  • 25-07-2012 10:32AM
    #1
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    It's Mars for me & by some margin.
    We've been fighting famine all my lifetime & I expect lifetime's to come.
    If you overpopulate an area with fragile resources the consequences are inevitable.
    Traveling to another planet will be a major step for us as a species & could be achieved within 20 years if time & money were prioritised.

    It's in our nature to explore, I believe that should become our biggest focus as a people.


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  • #2
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    send all the starving babies to mars, problem sorted :cool:


  • #3
    CodyJarrett
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 307 ✭✭CodyJarrett


    Nah, fcuk space exploration: give Mars to the kids instead - fair compromise.


  • #4
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    We've been fighting famine all my lifetime & I expect lifetime's to come.

    Do you live in Africa?


  • #5
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    smash wrote: »
    Do you live in Africa?

    Hardly, with an attitude like mine.


  • #6
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Money in the form of direct aid is of fnck all use to Africa anyway. It would be better spent on a Mars project rather than simply lining the pockets of charity executives, arms dealers and warlords.


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  • #7
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    give the kids a mars bar.


  • #8
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Which is more realistic to happen. Africa needs to get itself sorted first, otherwise trying to keep everyone fed would be like the EU bailout packages, throwing money into a black hole that you can't fix because it is not the real problem.


  • #9
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    seamus wrote: »
    Money in the form of direct aid is of fnck all use to Africa anyway. It would be better spent on a Mars project rather than simply lining the pockets of charity executives, arms dealers and warlords.
    But then where will the rappers get their bling?


  • #10
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Mars. Sooner or later we'll need to leave earth if we're to survive as a species. Better sooner.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #11
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Mars. Sooner or later we'll need to leave earth if we're to survive as a species. Better sooner.
    But most of the planet's surface isn't even populated! We just need to manage and grow more resources.


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  • #12
    Funglegunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    If you reduced world defense budgets by half, we could send all the babies to Proxima Centauri. Space program budgets are a hell of a lot smaller than people think.


  • #13
    mickgotsick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 350 ✭✭mickgotsick


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    give the kids a mars bar.

    Give a kid a mars bar and he'll work, rest and play, for a day...

    Give the kid a chocolate factory and he can live on mars bars the rest of his days.


  • #14
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    There's only one Mars that I'm interested in, c'mon you little beauty!!!

    http://aidanobrienfansite.dinstudio.com/files/mars.png


  • #15
    J Cheever Loophole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭J Cheever Loophole


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    smash wrote: »
    Do you live in Africa?
    Hardly, with an attitude like mine.

    Sounds like a tacit admission by yourself that your own attitude sucks!! :rolleyes:


  • #16
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    smash wrote: »
    But most of the planet's surface isn't even populated! We just need to manage and grow more resources.

    All we need is one major natural disaster and we are all fecked. A random asteroid strike or a super volcano erupting will make an all out nuclear war look like skyfest.


  • #17
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Feed the babies.


  • #18
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    All we need is one major natural disaster and we are all fecked. A random asteroid strike or a super volcano erupting will make an all out nuclear war look like skyfest.

    Yea, but Hollywood has thought me that stuff always happens in the states so we're ok!

    P.S. Uranus! Just cos nobody said it yet.


  • #19
    Paxton Thoughtless Mechanic
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Paxton Thoughtless Mechanic


    mars


  • #20
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Mars is boring. Let's go to Saturn. I can guarantee we'll find life there. And lots of gas...


  • #21
    Nailz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,691 ✭✭✭Nailz


    CodyJarrett wrote: »
    Nah, fcuk space exploration: give Mars to the kids instead - fair compromise.
    What if they prefer Twix instead?


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  • #22
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Now, this is the plan. Get your ass to Mars!


  • #23
    JohnMarston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭JohnMarston


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    Now, this is the plan. Get your ass to Mars!



  • #24
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Mars, and then I could say "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" and actually mean it when I hop on a ship and give earth the finger as I head off into space.

    Throwing money at Africa without any viable solution as to how the countries can help themselves is a waste of money as it gets dispersed all over the place from executives to those in power, leaving the ground staff with pittens to work with.


  • #25
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Send Bob Geldof and Bono to Mars on a one way trip?


  • #26
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Feed the chiselers


  • #27
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    It's a false dilemma, there is no reason as to why both can't be done given the vast resources spent on weapons which will never be used and so forth. Strange how it's never "stealth bombers or Mars".


  • #28
    Cianos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    It's Mars for me & by some margin.
    We've been fighting famine all my lifetime & I expect lifetime's to come.
    If you overpopulate an area with fragile resources the consequences are inevitable.
    Traveling to another planet will be a major step for us as a species & could be achieved within 20 years if time & money were prioritised.

    It's in our nature to explore, I believe that should become our biggest focus as a people.

    High population density is a good thing, part of Africa's problem is its low population density.

    New York has close to zero resources, but a very dense population, and works brilliantly. See what I'm getting at :) ?


  • #29
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    All we need is one major natural disaster and we are all fecked. A random asteroid strike or a super volcano erupting will make an all out nuclear war look like skyfest.

    Probably more chance of surviving a natural disaster on a planet that we know intimately rather than taking our chances on a new world.

    Also, I'm not sure why it's an either/or option. We can afford to feed the babies AND go to Mars.


  • #30
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Mars is boring. Let's go to Saturn. I can guarantee we'll find life there. And lots of gas...

    just once we don't have to go near Uranus


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  • #31
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,377 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    I don't want to go to Uranus. Too much methane in the atmosphere.


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