As much as it shames me to say it, some days my cursor lingers over the Yes button far longer than it should. Today, the human race was spared because of my friends and loved ones, Macs, and caffeine. The list is usually much longer, but today not even porn makes the cut.
Dear Mankind,
Please do not misinterpret a general feeling of goodwill toward your species as a lack of willingness to reduce the great majority of your civilization to ashes.
Love,
-Datan0de
Dear Mankind,
Please do not misinterpret a general feeling of goodwill toward your species as a lack of willingness to reduce the great majority of your civilization to ashes.
Love,
-Datan0de
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ST.evil
Make you that Mars base??? It's MY base, buddy!
Oh, unless you were volunteering to be building materials, in which case I accept. ;-)
Your spot on the "Coolest People in the Universe" list was already secured, but now it's etched in stone. :-)
Flattery will get you everywhere.
My defense systems for my new Red Dirt Prairie home (and nuclear-powered Agrifacility dome) will only shoot low level laser light and paintballs in the range of your base...if you'll spare me from your nanohazard weapons and other defenses. ;)
On a quasi-serious note, regardless of whatever else may happen, if by some chance we do end up actually moving to our respective Mars territories you are officially invited over for tea. :-)
Well bring it, sister! Just for you, I'm going to install a rubber band cannon the likes of which Mars (and Marz, for that matter) has never seen! Yes, the Red Planet will shudder at the devastating barrage of little rubbery vengeance!!! MWAHAHA!!!
After tea we can squeegee the side of your habitat off...and then I'll cook veggie stir-fry for all of you (since most of what I'll be eating are vegetables - not really good to have too many livestock in a agridome unless it's absolutely MASSIVE - which it won't be for many years after I get there - oh wait...maybe I can channel the methane byproduct of cattle for fuel...hmmm...*rummages around in the brain for invention ideas*...so much to do....
I'm there! Since
BTW, have we been reading Robert Zubrin? He's the president of the Mars Society (http://www.marssociety.org), and wrote "The Case for Mars", which explains (in great detail) "Mars Direct", a plan to put a permanent society on Mars affordably using current technology. It's fascinating stuff, and became the major basis for NASA's current reference mission for Mars. Sadly, in typical NASA fashion they've watered it down and stretched the time frame out to an absurd degree, but the plan is still viable.
Where was I? Oh yeah. Something that he mentions echos your statements- that meat and livestock are luxuries that a Mars habitat simply wouldn't be able to support for a long time. Personally, I can deal. I loves me some meaty vittles, but I'm a big fan of soy-based food as well.