We do not have an atmosphere of carbon dioxide on Earth. Carbon dioxide is a small part of the terrestrial atmosphere, the majority is nitrogen and oxygen. Any bacteria living in a largely CO2 atmosphere is not likely to survive in one with large concentrations of oxygen; anymore than terrestrial anaerobic bacteria could.
Assuming that there are even bacteria on Mars, there's no reason to suppose they could survive in Earth's environment, or if they could, that they would be able to infect life on Earth. I mean, you're talking about life in a completely different form. Even most terrestrial bacteria can only infect a relatively small number of plant and animal species.
Blegh, I don't see how you can compare one to the other.
Bills like that are often just introduced to get a relentless constituent off a legislator's back. Obviously, few (if any) people are stupid enough to support KY's anti-casino submarine. The same can hardly be said for the CBDTPA.
Because the trip from Earth to Mars, even when their orbits are closest, would take... what is it now, a year? (twenty years ago it was three years, but propulsion technology's advanced since then). It's not the same thing as having a shuttle in orbit of Earth - you can pretty easily send supplies over there. But a shuttle going to Mars will be too far away for it to be practical to send it supplies, so it will have to have them onboard - about 2.5 years' worth for however many passengers are onboard. Then there's energy concerns (we have to have enough energy and fuel to get there and back and survive) and oxygen problems (I know shuttles have oxygen recycling systems, but I'm not sure how efficient they are - obviously not 100% efficient, that's impossible).
Then, of course, there's psychological stress - extreme boredom, etc.
"It is very obvious that we should have lawyers
on Mars so for this sort of thing... Who needs scientists when lawyers can make decisons for us!"
I agree, all the lawyers should be on Mars. Until they suffocate.
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I also said I didn't have enough energy to type that much. Do you believe that as well?
Ya see, there's this thing, it's called irony...
I have other reasons to dislike Java, but why not tell you the most asinine?
Java's just annoying to program in, if you ask me. I mean, the same command that's writeln in PASCAL, and printf in C and cout in C++ is 'System.out.println' in Java. I mean, damn. You know how annoying it is to type that out every time? I just don't have that much energy.
(Must... type... 2000-character command...)
G'ah. I need some sleep.
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Is it just me, or has Netscape's performance level gone down as the version numbers go up? I seem to remember Netscape 3.0 on my old Pentium 60 loading a helluva lot faster than Netscape 4.7 on a P2-266 or even my new 533Mhz (braces for laughter) Celeron. Haven't tried 6.0, tho... and don't intend to, until it gets out of testing. I may be insane, but I ain't crazy. (Or something.) Nonexistent.
Dammit, don't we have enough portable hardware called 'Nomad' already? Sega's failed portable 16-bit system and Creative Labs' MP3 player come to mind.
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"For terran bacteria withstanding vacuum is clearly more difficult than an atmosphere of carbon dioxide (Hmm we have that here)"
Unless, of course, 'here' is not Earth.
We do not have an atmosphere of carbon dioxide on Earth. Carbon dioxide is a small part of the terrestrial atmosphere, the majority is nitrogen and oxygen. Any bacteria living in a largely CO2 atmosphere is not likely to survive in one with large concentrations of oxygen; anymore than terrestrial anaerobic bacteria could.
Wow, you can give an irrelevant example! Good for you.
The Moon has NO ATMOSPHERE, dumbass. There's nothing for bacteria there to feed off of, but there's also nothing that can cause them significant harm.
Assuming that there are even bacteria on Mars, there's no reason to suppose they could survive in Earth's environment, or if they could, that they would be able to infect life on Earth. I mean, you're talking about life in a completely different form. Even most terrestrial bacteria can only infect a relatively small number of plant and animal species.
Blegh, I don't see how you can compare one to the other.
Bills like that are often just introduced to get a relentless constituent off a legislator's back. Obviously, few (if any) people are stupid enough to support KY's anti-casino submarine. The same can hardly be said for the CBDTPA.
Because the trip from Earth to Mars, even when their orbits are closest, would take... what is it now, a year? (twenty years ago it was three years, but propulsion technology's advanced since then). It's not the same thing as having a shuttle in orbit of Earth - you can pretty easily send supplies over there. But a shuttle going to Mars will be too far away for it to be practical to send it supplies, so it will have to have them onboard - about 2.5 years' worth for however many passengers are onboard. Then there's energy concerns (we have to have enough energy and fuel to get there and back and survive) and oxygen problems (I know shuttles have oxygen recycling systems, but I'm not sure how efficient they are - obviously not 100% efficient, that's impossible).
Then, of course, there's psychological stress - extreme boredom, etc.
Need any more reasons?
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"It is very obvious that we should have lawyers on Mars so for this sort of thing... Who needs scientists when lawyers can make decisons for us!" I agree, all the lawyers should be on Mars. Until they suffocate.
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I also said I didn't have enough energy to type that much. Do you believe that as well? Ya see, there's this thing, it's called irony... I have other reasons to dislike Java, but why not tell you the most asinine?
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Java's just annoying to program in, if you ask me. I mean, the same command that's writeln in PASCAL, and printf in C and cout in C++ is 'System.out.println' in Java. I mean, damn. You know how annoying it is to type that out every time? I just don't have that much energy. (Must... type... 2000-character command...) G'ah. I need some sleep.
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Is it just me, or has Netscape's performance level gone down as the version numbers go up? I seem to remember Netscape 3.0 on my old Pentium 60 loading a helluva lot faster than Netscape 4.7 on a P2-266 or even my new 533Mhz (braces for laughter) Celeron. Haven't tried 6.0, tho... and don't intend to, until it gets out of testing. I may be insane, but I ain't crazy. (Or something.)
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Dammit, don't we have enough portable hardware called 'Nomad' already? Sega's failed portable 16-bit system and Creative Labs' MP3 player come to mind.
And yes, I know this was rather pointless.
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>Title pretty self-explaining... unless you can't >make the difference between 'i' and 'a'. At least I wasn't the only one who saw that.
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