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Mars Race Heats up Further

Posted by michael on from the canadians-in-space dept.

anzha writes "It seems what was once the province of the superpowers is no longer so. ESA and the Japanese attempted their own Mars orbiters (successfully and not, respectively). The Brits fired off Beagle 2 and are talking of going for Beagle 3. Now the Canadians are talking about a probe for Mars in 2011. How long before we see the Japanese and Russians try again? Might India or China take a stab at it as well?"

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  1. Re:Ugh, not a good thing by Tenfish · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh, and another thing.

    Don't get too attached to this planet, or Mars either. Someday, we're going to be building gigantic structures in space. We'll be using the energy equivalent of many many stars total output. If you think that we're going to leave a planet in one piece, you're mistaken.

    The ultimate future of Earth and Mars, and all the other planets in our system, is that they will be complete dissassembled for raw materials.

    How will the world end? In fire? In ice? More like in a bunch of tiny pieces that were smelted into raw metals.

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