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Ray Bradbury's Reasons to Go to Mars

Posted by Hemos on from the interesting-reading-at-least dept.

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."

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  1. ep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This early post for everyone who wanks to Dido!

  2. Re:Uh... by ta+bu+shi+da+yu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wtf??? crap. Wrong story - sorry ppl! I *was* trying to reply to the adti story. *sigh*

    Now I'm going to be marked -1: Troll for sure.

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  3. 2 words .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    granular peebags!

  4. Dunno?....Here are my Reasons: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was thinking it'd be funny to pretend to be a child molestor online so you could lure the officials into coming out somewhere to meet you as if they were a child. I guess everyone knows the deal if you've seen the television shows where they've busted online predators by setting up a meeting place where the pedophile meets up with the child and then the pedophile gets arrested.

    I think it'd be fun to say you're gonna meet them somewhere, then go there and just watch them waiting around, heh. I figure if they found out you were messing with them then you'd get in trouble; kinda like calling 911 and not really having an emergency I guess.

    Have you guys ever wondered if you've been an attempted target for the internet child molestor police? I can't remember how long ago it was but someone messaged me on AIM and wanted to hook up, I was probably 20 or 21 then and this girl said she was 16. She asked me if I wanted to hook up and I said hell no and that was the last I saw of her LoLz.

    #1 it's WRONG
    #2 teenagers are stupid (ALL OF YOU! ;) )
    #3 I'm not gonna be some hick with a girlfriend in highschool and her saying to all the other dumb whores "hyuck muh boifren is 20 bich, hez gunna kik ur azz shaniqua" I always thought those girls were stupid whores and I'm not gonna be part of it. Now if we were in Thailand (read Mars, ONTOPIC) that'd be a different story! ;)

  5. Italians have already been on Mars.. by lsw · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    ..as clearly documented by this rare archive footage broadcasted on RAI, Italy's state tv.
    The landing by a Fascist group loyal to Mussolini and was made shortly before WWII to expand to new colonies.

    http://www.scafroglia.rai.it/R3_popup_articolofogl ia/0,6844,108%5E710,00.html

    You guys should learn more history from tv.

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  6. That's BETWEEN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Object A: the brutal and primitive
    Object B: the advanced

    You'll note it does NOT say "the brutal, the primitive, and the advanced".

    I can't believe you people will bitch about this crap AND be wrong.