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US & Russia Pencil in Mars Launch by 2018
snilloc writes "The Washington Times is reporting that the US and Russia (and the Europeans are mentioned too) are planning for an eventual manned Mars trip. Suggested launch years are 2014 or 2018. The article discusses unmanned probes at greater length than the manned plans, but check out the Russian isolation experiment where 6 people will spend 500 days in a simulated spacecraft environment. (Sounds like a good reality TV show to me.)"
While I'm happy to se that they're still talking about manned space missions, is this the best they could do to boost the economy? I don't want to wait until 2018 for a bull market.
Yeah, why the heck are we sending a pencil to mars? Surely they don't think anyone is going to use it. They would use pen of course. Nothing better than a good pen.
And another reality tv show would kill me.
Did anybody else read the headline and think the US and Russia were sending a pencil to Mars? It's definitely Monday.
In Soviet Russia, Mars explores YOU.
Next stop: Ur anus
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Day 1: Can you hear me now? ...
Day 2: Can you hear me now?
Day 3: Can you hear me now?
Day 500: Can you hear me now?
You will have to pry my proprietary software $$$ from my cold dead hands!
esa SUCKS COCK
They are a buch of NO GOOD LOSERS and SURRENDER MONKEYS
FUCK esa
FUCK europe
FUCK russia
FUCK canada
Only American is GOOD
Everything else is CRAP
USA POWER
MORONS. have u been watching TV lately
WE HAVE WON
The enemy has been HUMILIATED
Did you bleeding heart liberal SCUM see how the Iraqi people PRAISE our GREAT President
DEATH to france, canada, germany, russia, and the people of britain, ireland, and australia
FUCK em ALL
Yet another proof that the American way is ONLY RIGHT way
1. Gave intelligence to Saddam's gov't regarding British and American communications?
2. Gave Saddam's gov't lists of assasins in the West?
Groovy.
Hey I live in this poor African country with AIDS epidemics and live in starvation conditions.
Hey, you happen to be so poor you have to sell your body to be able to feed yourself, because your country has no education system to speak of so you're not qualified to do anything else.
Since you can't afford birth control...surprise, you end up with kids.
By the way- not everyone who got pregnant did so by choice, and I'm not talking about the young 20-something newlywed who giggles "oops" to her hubby in their shiny new 3-bedroom suburbian home. I'm talking about the women who are raped, en masse, in third world countries, by gun-toting "rebels", government troops...hell, raped by plain ordinary sick guys.
Your viewpoint is about as sick as those who refused to spend money on protecting people from AIDS and such. The opinion, at one time, was "well, they're GAY, they do that gross stuff, good, LET them DIE, that'll solve the problem!"
Please help metamoderate.
By 2018 Mars will be the last territory in inner Solar system that US have not searched yet for Osama Bin Laden.
Less is more !
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Way to moderate based on personal opinion, guys. Ironically, what I said was completely valid. Too bad the only counter-points you had were moderation points.