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Europe Joins Race To Send Humans To Mars

hereisnowhy writes "CBC reports that the ESA hopes to send humans to Mars within three decades. They first hope to return a Martian soil sample by 2014. They stress the importance of determining whether Mars ever supported life before humans touch down on the surface, because "You can sterilize a robot. But you cannot do the same to an astronaut. Inevitably a human will introduce microbes to the planet ... and contaminate it."" Kame-sennin links to a Reuters article on the plans.

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  1. I love tubgirl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where are the WMD's, tubboy?

  2. Progressive ideas are nuanced and sophisticated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BUSH=HITLER! for example

  3. fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp!
    hi!

  4. What you see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Is what you expect to see...

    Try to dig a little deeper, read a bit more, (i.e. go back and see about that thing called MORALS and NATURAL RIGHTS).

    Again, you'll find what you expect to find. If you were truly trying to enter into a constructive debate, you would not oversimplify extreme leftist ideas as to fully encompass the progressive movement.

  5. What if americans get there after them... by QEDog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FRENCH GUARD: I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!Fetchez la vache! [mooo]

    --
    "There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
  6. HAHAHAHAHAHA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dean got beaten by a NIGGER in SC.

  7. Re:I'm surprised... by A+Bugg · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah Bush is a business man but he's a crappy one. He had to be bailed out of Harken energy remember. Yeah he made an alright chunck out change from his rangers shares but whoopty shit. That doesn't make him a good business man. Then there's Arbusto energy his first oil company that went bust and got merged to save his butt along with Spectrum 7 which then got swallowed into Harken. Trust me he has tried and failed at business, I wouldn't put much stock in his business sense.
    The people around him on the other hand....
    A Bugg

  8. Re:Cheers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, they don't.

    -- An European

  9. Re:They should send RMS by subk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BLOW ME, you fuck. CHE-FUCKING-ERS bitch.

    --
    Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
  10. Re:In Soviet Russia.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Okay, why did somebody rate this as "troll". Perhaps "offtopic" would be more fitting if you want a reason to slam it.

  11. Re:Cheers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Yes, they do.

    --Another European