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Ray Bradbury's Reasons to Go to Mars
An anonymous reader writes "Ray Bradbury's testimony to the Presidential blue-ribbon Commission, 'Moon to Mars and Beyond', covers a range of rather optimistic space-related topics, including why three Italians should be the first on Mars. But at age 83, Bradbury's next book, entitled 'Too Soon From the Cave, Too Far From the Stars' seems to set an overall vision that this is an in-between generation caught between the brutal and primitive and the advanced."
For all the Martian Chronicles related jokes....too bad I couldn't think of any.
Why go to Mars, except maybe to have someone ON SITE to push the "RESET" button??
= Grow a brain...
Yes you are
'Too Soon From the Cave, Too Far From the Stars'
Yeah, much too soon. One minute you're an ape triumphantly hurtling a bone into the air under the theme of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', and next thing you know, the bone turns into an orbiting satellite in the year 2001. Also, you've become human and there's this weird monolith on the moon.
Talk about culture shock ...
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
Except a largish cometary impact.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
I still live in a cave, you insensitive clod!
Halitosis - (n.) Halle Berry's Camel Toe.
Yeah, and now you've been marked -1 Offtopic for this post... not your day, hmmm? :P
"If we can find any living relatives of Columbus, and Caboto, and Verrazzano - wouldn't that be remarkable if we could send them on the first manned rocket to Mars."
Descendants of Columbus?! Oh sure, so we're going to send out another white man to treat the native Martians as slaves. Great idea!
yes poets, management consultants, hairdressers, telephone sanitisers. Send the lot of em.
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Are you saying that writing fiction and working for the government are somehow different?
If the Chicoms make it to Mars first, American industry is doomed.
Our IT companies are losing out to cheap foreign competitors from countries that are poor but have highly-educated workforces. A newly colonized Mars would be extremely poor (no natural resources!) and everyone who lived there would be a MENSA-level scientist!. There's no way a patriotic John Q. MSCE could compete with that kind of competition competitively.
Also, if some Chicom "hacker" outfit wanted to publish stolen source code or red-blooded American credit card passwords over the World Wide Web, a Mars-based broadcasting rig would be unreachable by current missile technology!!!
Our national security and livelihoods are in danger. We must colonize Mars immediately and render it a Chicom-free zone.
Thank you for your support.
Nothing will stop man from seeking adventures and knowledge.
Nothing, perhaps, except marriage.
"Honey, I'm going out to explore Mars."
"Not before you clean out the garage.
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Whoops I did miss the reference, but I'm not disgruntled. I'm happy to be alive. I've just got over a terrible virus that I caught from a dirty telephone.
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If one of them's Monica Bellucci, I'm all for it!
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
I'd argue that the Americas were not quite "perfectly habitable," especially since the first couple colonization attempts disappeared without a trace, and it took decades for the rest to gain a decent foothold.
Think of the audience for this report. Cheney may read it to Bush at some point.
Politicus
I live in Sweden and I'm pretty sure Spain has never invaded. The man is talking out of his ass!
Book Dealer: I hear you have 1st edition Fahrenheit 451 you wish to sell.
Seller: Yes. It's in great condition
Book Dealer: Well, there's not much call for Bradburys... they generally aren't very rare.
Seller: But mine is UNSIGNED!
Dealer: (drooling) Would you take a cashier's checks? I don't have that kind of cash on hand!
All of this was for nothing anyway, in about 10^32 years from now all of the universe protons will decay and everything will disappear anyway.
You can't handle the truth.
including why three Italians should be the first on Mars
Only royalty may speak in the royal plural.
It was published 4 years after 1984
Why not just say it was published in 1988?
Grinning, ducking, and running...