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Russia Planning Double Mission to Mars
dylanduck writes "Apparently Russia has revived a previous plan to send a spacecraft to Phobos, a tiny Martian moon. Turns out it's a cool place to land - much easier than the surface as far less deceleration is needed, it should have plenty of Mars rocks spattered on the surface and it's just 9000km above the surface. Some think it the perfect place for a Mars moonbase." From the article: "A mission devoted to the moons could explain how the satellites are held together - whether they are piles of rubble loosely held together by gravity or solid chunks. Most scientists assume the heavily cratered moons are captured asteroids, Christensen told New Scientist. But it is actually quite hard for a planet to capture an object into its orbit - most things just skim by. 'So how it got there is a bit of an enigma,' Christensen says."
1. If Earth gets hit by an asteroid which ruins the environment and the weather, putting us into an ice-age, Earth will STILL be the most hospitable place for humans in the universe.
2. People on non-Earth planets will not survive due to the wrong gravity.
3. People who call the moon 'Luna' are an argument for post-natal abortion. I bet you call the sun 'Sol' and Earth 'Terra'.
4. I'd rather live on post-apocalyptic Earth than an asteroid, either rotting in the zero gravity on the outside or psychologically rotting spinning round and round inside a giant metal cave.
5. If we all get killed, will we care if some other humans are living somewhere else?