This is clearly a non-renewable resource - the paltry accumulation of billions of years of comet strikes. I'm sure you'll agree that it should be declared a protected area. I'm sure...
The real problem is radiation exposure. 6 months there, 500 days on the surface, 6 months back... The only known solution to this is to make the habitat module more massive.. which of course requires more fuel...
It wouldn't take 6 months to get there if you went a bit faster. Of course you'd need more fuel,
or lug a nuclear reactor around with you
http://io9.com/5323516/earth-to-mars-in-39-days
either way you don't exactly save money in the process
I think I read somewhere that the technology is currently used to ablate uterine fibroids--small benign tumors in the uterus--and it's in clinical testing for removing tumors from breast and other cancers... Oh yes, TFA
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Before we say something we later regret, we should consider that without the Star Wars Holiday Special there would be no Boba Fett.
This is clearly a non-renewable resource - the paltry accumulation of billions of years of comet strikes. I'm sure you'll agree that it should be declared a protected area. I'm sure...
SQUAAAWK, it's a living...!
I know one in particular whom was so bad, he dropped out of college his second year of music school....
He Who Him Whom Who was so bad? He was so bad. Bad for whom? Bad for him.
No child fails, the teacher fails the child.
No teacher fails the child, the teacher's teacher failed the teacher.
The real problem is radiation exposure. 6 months there, 500 days on the surface, 6 months back... The only known solution to this is to make the habitat module more massive.. which of course requires more fuel...
It wouldn't take 6 months to get there if you went a bit faster. Of course you'd need more fuel, or lug a nuclear reactor around with you http://io9.com/5323516/earth-to-mars-in-39-days either way you don't exactly save money in the process
The two circular displays suggest some bizarre colour organ interface. Alas no, just boring old monochrome text. http://www.mentallandscape.com/Computer_CDC.htm
I think I read somewhere that the technology is currently used to ablate uterine fibroids--small benign tumors in the uterus--and it's in clinical testing for removing tumors from breast and other cancers... Oh yes, TFA