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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    space


    madness

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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Major West: I'm going to try to break us out of the atmosphere.

    John Robinson: No, we don't have enough core material for that.

    Major West: Well, maybe if we catch one of the thermal...

    John Robinson: No, it won't work. I *know*. We have to go... down. Through the planet as she's breaking up. We can use the planet's gravity...

    Major West: What?

    John Robinson: To throw us out the other side and back into space!

    Major West: That's insane!

    John Robinson: I don't have time to argue.

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    space potatoes








    and along with them













    irish astronauts

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    GreenGreen Stick around. I'm full of bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    potatoe wrote: »
    space


    madness

    I'VE HAD THIS ICE CREAM BAR SINCE I WAS A CHILD

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    Dark HelmetDark Helmet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    A Modest Proposal


    in space

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    #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Graves wrote: »
    the wook wrote: »
    Green wrote: »
    The better question is, what kind of music does the space elevator have

    David Bowie - Starman

    on infinite loop

    This.

    Have we already broached the topic of where the space elevator takes you?

    Besides up.

    up and out
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    SkillazSkillaz __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Faricazy wrote: »
    space potatoes








    and along with them













    irish astronauts

    So Space Scotch you say, eh?

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    A Modest Proposal


    in space

    space wuv

    twue space wuv

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    The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    So when in the course of those animations do they reveal the trench that leads to the exhaust hole 2m wide?

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Whoa
    NASA Science Update to Discuss Mars Atmosphere Activity


    WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 15, to discuss analysis of the Martian atmosphere that raises the possibility of life or geologic activity. The briefing will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., S.W., Washington, and carried live on NASA Television.

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    Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    By life, they mean microbes, just so you know.

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    Dark HelmetDark Helmet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I love how scientists keep desperately clinging to the belief that Mars has life - even if it is primitive. Mars is a washed-out could have been that never made the cut. If ever there was life there, it is most likely long gone now. Europa on the other hand does have some promise, if it does indeed have a vast ocean under its ice-crust.

    Mars is dead ball of rock with the occasional dust storm.

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    By life, they mean microbes, just so you know.

    You mean they weren't talking about mars elephants??
    I love how scientists keep desperately clinging to the belief that Mars has life - even if it is primitive. Mars is a washed-out could have been that never made the cut. If ever there was life there, it is most likely long gone now. Europa on the other hand does have some promise, if it does indeed have a vast ocean under its ice-crust.

    Mars is dead ball of rock with the occasional dust storm.

    More like Enceladus

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    Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    I love how scientists keep desperately clinging to the belief that Mars has life - even if it is primitive. Mars is a washed-out could have been that never made the cut. If ever there was life there, it is most likely long gone now. Europa on the other hand does have some promise, if it does indeed have a vast ocean under its ice-crust.

    Mars is dead ball of rock with the occasional dust storm.

    Shit dude you should tell NASA this ASAP
    You're like the dude scientists have been waiting for
    You need to go let them know

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    GreenGreen Stick around. I'm full of bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I love how scientists keep desperately clinging to the belief that Mars has life - even if it is primitive. Mars is a washed-out could have been that never made the cut. If ever there was life there, it is most likely long gone now. Europa on the other hand does have some promise, if it does indeed have a vast ocean under its ice-crust.

    Mars is dead ball of rock with the occasional dust storm.

    Yeah you're probably ri

    spirit_mars_medium.jpg

    FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    what color are mars elephants

    purple i hope

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    Dark HelmetDark Helmet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I love how scientists keep desperately clinging to the belief that Mars has life - even if it is primitive. Mars is a washed-out could have been that never made the cut. If ever there was life there, it is most likely long gone now. Europa on the other hand does have some promise, if it does indeed have a vast ocean under its ice-crust.

    Mars is dead ball of rock with the occasional dust storm.

    Shit dude you should tell NASA this ASAP
    You're like the dude scientists have been waiting for
    You need to go let them know

    I know right. It are fact, I know because of my internet learnings.

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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I love how scientists keep desperately clinging to the belief that Mars has life - even if it is primitive. Mars is a washed-out could have been that never made the cut. If ever there was life there, it is most likely long gone now. Europa on the other hand does have some promise, if it does indeed have a vast ocean under its ice-crust.

    Mars is dead ball of rock with the occasional dust storm.

    That... that's completely wrong.

    While Mars certainly has a low probability for life, it has a much higher amount of life requirements than anywhere else we know of in the universe. The moons are only speculation at this point, and due to the difficulty in reaching them with any significant scientific equipment they have a far higher chance of finding life on Mars in the near future than anywhere else.

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    Dark HelmetDark Helmet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Mars might have had life, but it just seems so fruitless turning over rocks and hoping to find something under a microscope. So far the best they got is a meteorite they picked up in Antarctica that is believed to have martian origins and oh shit that microscopic spec on it looks like bacteria if you squint at it hard.

    Maybe they will find some sort of fossilized life? We have no way of quantifying how common life is in the universe because our only point of reference is our own planet. We very well might be the shining jewel in a barren cosmos (doubtful but without another world with life forms to compare notes - plausible).


    I love being a bullshit artist.

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Green wrote: »
    I love how scientists keep desperately clinging to the belief that Mars has life - even if it is primitive. Mars is a washed-out could have been that never made the cut. If ever there was life there, it is most likely long gone now. Europa on the other hand does have some promise, if it does indeed have a vast ocean under its ice-crust.

    Mars is dead ball of rock with the occasional dust storm.

    Yeah you're probably ri

    spirit_mars_medium.jpg

    FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU

    nnnnnnnnnope

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Mars might have had life, but it just seems so fruitless turning over rocks and hoping to find something under a microscope.

    ...

    We have no way of quantifying how common life is in the universe because our only point of reference is our own planet.
    uh

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    Dark HelmetDark Helmet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Is my point being missed? Or am I being trolled? I will shut up if it is the second.

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    Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Remember when Palin was ironically bashing fruit fly research earmarks because she thought it was a waste of time, when it turned out fruit fly research was the spark that jump-started the whole of DNA science, including autism research?

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    WATCH OUT YOU GUYS

    WIKIPEDIA SCIENTIST COMING THROUGH

    MAKE WAY, MAKE WAY

    DARK HELMET'S GOT SOMETHING TO SAY



    OR RATHER TO REGURGITATE

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    are you trolling us?

    if we found traces of life on mars, then our own planet wouldn't be the only point of reference. ahdurrrrrrrrr

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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Is my point being missed? Or am I being trolled? I will shut up if it is the second.

    I think it is us who are being trolled here.

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    Dark HelmetDark Helmet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Ok ok fine! And to think I am being called the crazy one because even though no one has found life on Mars - IT'S BOUND TO HAPPEN TOMORROW JUST YOU WAIT. I guess from now on when someone posts a different opinion the appropriate counter argument is "BOOBS LOL".

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Ok ok fine! And to think I am being called the crazy one because even though no one has found life on Mars - IT'S BOUND TO HAPPEN TOMORROW JUST YOU WAIT. I guess from now on when someone posts a different opinion the appropriate counter argument is "BOOBS LOL".

    Please point to where someone said this

    I'm pretty sure you made it up!

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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    oh lordy

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    look it's not our fault you don't understand how science works

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    Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    STRAW MAN

    STRAW MAN

    Won't work on me you fuckers

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    Dark HelmetDark Helmet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Well I express my opinion that Mars is a dead planet and I get compared to that psychopath Sarah Palin.

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    You guys I looked up ALH 84001 on Wikipedia and now I'm an expert on Xenobiology

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    my opinion that Mars is a dead planet
    :|


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    Dark HelmetDark Helmet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Can we talk about Boobs instead? Space boobs to make it theme-oriented? I'm stuck at work and I have nowhere to go. :(

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    MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I don't see what the big deal is to be honest!

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    Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Well I express my opinion that Mars is a dead planet and I get compared to that psychopath Sarah Palin.

    It's not that...it's the fact that, lets be honest dude. There are hundreds of people who spend countless hours and getting paid countless amounts of money to research this stuff, trying to find out the answers.

    Yet...you seem to have all the answers.

    Sitting on an obscure forum...all starting posts with

    "I love how scientists keep desperately clinging to the belief that..."

    It just sounds silly

    I don't have anything against you or your posts. I just like to call a spade a spade sometimes.

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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    total recall

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Well I express my opinion that Mars is a dead planet and I get compared to that psychopath Sarah Palin.

    It's not that...it's the fact that, lets be honest dude. There are hundred of people who spend countless hours and getting paid countless amounts of money to research this stuff, trying to find out the answers.

    Yet...you seem to have all the answers.

    Yes, exactly

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    Dark HelmetDark Helmet Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Ok, I see that. I am certainly no astro-biologist, but I do have a love for the kind of stuff like thos. Why I got lured into this conversation in the first place. I have always prefered the 'this is my stance' instead of hemming and hawing about the maybes and ifs, but yeah I did come of dickish.


    Boobs in space would be nice. Space porn is only a matter of time.

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