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Why You Should Be More Interested In Mars Than the Olympics
New submitter hugeinc sends this quote from an article by author Andrew Kessler:
"Next week, while we're all watching NBC, a nuclear-powered, MINI-Cooper-sized super rover will land on Mars. We accurately guided this monster from 200 million miles away (that's 7.6 million marathons). It requires better accuracy than an Olympic golfer teeing off in London and hitting a hole-in-one in Auckland, New Zealand. It will use a laser to blast rocks, a chemical nose to sniff out the potential for life, and hundreds of other feats of near-magic. Will these discoveries lead us down a path to confirming life on other planets? Wouldn't that be a good story that might make people care about science?"
I'll care when the Olympics are ON Mars.
...the Olympics (and all sports) existed for the sole purpose of preempting my favorite TV shows.
It's all part of the Space Nutter religion. Complete disdain for normal human activity, but somehow caring about the entire species getting off this rock. Presumably, the "species" is limited to the Cheetos-dust-covered, basement-dwelling morbidly obese translucently pale worshipers of 1960s Space Age propaganda.
Still pissed that your parents wouldn't send you to space camp?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
That would be pretty damn amazing, since the last time golf was featured in the olympics was in 1904. I'm pretty sure they've all been dead for a long time.
No, no - the Australian term is "budgie smugglers".
But only a few will have the honour of serving the Tripods inside the city of gold.
Michael Reed, freelance tech writer.
Yes, yes.. let the butt hurt flow through you..
It's exciting to see the fastest person alive.
I've seen him. I was sitting at an outdoor cafe enjoying a pint, when I saw someone with a wallet in his hand running, oh, about twice the speed of Ben Johnson, leaving a pair of pursuing cops in the dust. They wouldn't have caught him on motorbikes.
No, wait, fast as he was, he's not the fastest person alive. That would be the trio of Stafford, Young and Ceman. It's amazing that these ~80 year olds hold the record.
I see your point, but there's something to be said for being the pinnacle of human physical fitness.
The pinnacle, is of taking the maximum amount of drugs, without being caught at it.
It's exciting to see the fastest person alive.
It's even more amazing, that they are still alive, given the amounts of Bath Salts that they are 'meth-ed up on.
I wouldn't be surprised to see some athletes wig out and do some Florida Zombie style face eating. Now that would deserve a gold!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
I'm sure it happens, but I'm going to need citations for a blanket statement.
And I'll need to see the deed and title research on that bridge as well.
Yeah! I stay away from freaks by spending my time reading Slashdot comment threads.