YYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! The World Cup is ours! As a brazilian, I simply can't describe my joy in seeing my country world champion for the fifth time! The one and only! Some insteresting facts about this victory:
Ronaldo, maker of both goals that gave the cup to Brazil, lost the 1998 world cup, injured himself badly and most people thought he would never be able to play soccer again. What this man did was incredible! He recovered himself, restarted playing soccer, Felipe Scollari (our coach) believed in him, and he finished the championship as the number one atacker! He diserves it!
Cafu, excellent player, is the first and only player in the history of the World Cups to play three consecutive World Cup Finals!
Rivaldo will be considered the number one soccer player in the world, for sure! He was also very criticized before the World Cup.
Brazil is going crazy! Everybody here is in the streets partying! Simply amaaaazing!
A message to all brazilians reading this:
Parabéns seleção, parabéns Felipão! O pentacampeonato é nosso, e vocês merecem! O hexa já pode ficar esperando!
What they have discovered is that there are not many places (not as many as they thought there were) where ***EARTH*** life cannot develop, but have they never considered other forms of life, most of which we cant even think of?
How do you define life? What are its possible physical manifestations? Is life limited to an atmosphere similar to ours? A gravity similar to ours? Is water really indispensable?
I think it's about time scientists become less earth-centric and start to see Life with a broader meaning.
No! I am not talking about homossexual crew members! The homo/hetero factor is not important here; what is important is that competition for sex does not become a problem in the mission. With a male-only crew, there would be other ways for them to......how can I say....."aliviate" themselves.
Another solution: put them all to sleep! That way it doesnt matter if the crew is composed of males, females or kangoroos.....they wont have enough time to fight eachother during the voyage.
Here are some psychological facts extremally relevant to this discussion:
If you put >5 people in a small confined space and make them stay there for at least a few months; they are gonna go for each other! Fights are uninevitable!
The situation gets even worse if it is a mixed gender crew: if the couples are married, there is a potential risk of cheating and jealousy among the crew members, which could prove DISASTROUS to the mission. And if there are no married couples, you risk having two guys fighting for the same girl, or vice-versa, which is also a BAD THING.
Solution? No mixed gender crews. But that would create another problem: Sex. This problem, however, is much easier to deal with than the firsts I mentioned.
That being said, my suggestion is for a male-only crew, since men are physically stronger and....how can I put this...understand machines better:)
Interesting ideia, but this has some complications.
When the puritans came to North America, they expected a new land, true, but they assumed it would have breathable air, water for them to drink (liquid and ACCESSIBLE), soil for them to seed and animals for them to hunt, that is, the basic requisites needed for human survival.
The story is a whole lot different on Mars, and I don't think I have to explain why.
Nevertheless, your idea is an interesting one, since it would be the first step in spreading the human race throughout the universe, and it would also mean that our neighbor planets would be no longer just potential turist atractions, but real places where real people live!
But of course, in order for this to become viable, scientists would have to improve a lot our current space exploration technology, and governments would have to start looking at the solar system (and later, at the stars) with different eyes.
However, I just don't think that space exploration will become a real issue until we have consumed all of our natural resources and overpopulation becomes a serious problem. I hope the governments of this planet have the wisdom to antecipate this.
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YYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! The World Cup is ours! As a brazilian, I simply can't describe my joy in seeing my country world champion for the fifth time! The one and only! Some insteresting facts about this victory:
Ronaldo, maker of both goals that gave the cup to Brazil, lost the 1998 world cup, injured himself badly and most people thought he would never be able to play soccer again. What this man did was incredible! He recovered himself, restarted playing soccer, Felipe Scollari (our coach) believed in him, and he finished the championship as the number one atacker! He diserves it!
Cafu, excellent player, is the first and only player in the history of the World Cups to play three consecutive World Cup Finals!
Rivaldo will be considered the number one soccer player in the world, for sure! He was also very criticized before the World Cup.
Brazil is going crazy! Everybody here is in the streets partying! Simply amaaaazing!
A message to all brazilians reading this:
Parabéns seleção, parabéns Felipão! O pentacampeonato é nosso, e vocês merecem! O hexa já pode ficar esperando!
How do you define life? What are its possible physical manifestations? Is life limited to an atmosphere similar to ours? A gravity similar to ours? Is water really indispensable?
I think it's about time scientists become less earth-centric and start to see Life with a broader meaning.
No! I am not talking about homossexual crew members! The homo/hetero factor is not important here; what is important is that competition for sex does not become a problem in the mission. With a male-only crew, there would be other ways for them to......how can I say....."aliviate" themselves. Another solution: put them all to sleep! That way it doesnt matter if the crew is composed of males, females or kangoroos .....they wont have enough time to fight eachother during the voyage.
If you put >5 people in a small confined space and make them stay there for at least a few months; they are gonna go for each other! Fights are uninevitable!
The situation gets even worse if it is a mixed gender crew: if the couples are married, there is a potential risk of cheating and jealousy among the crew members, which could prove DISASTROUS to the mission. And if there are no married couples, you risk having two guys fighting for the same girl, or vice-versa, which is also a BAD THING.
Solution? No mixed gender crews. But that would create another problem: Sex. This problem, however, is much easier to deal with than the firsts I mentioned.
That being said, my suggestion is for a male-only crew, since men are physically stronger and....how can I put this...understand machines better :)
Interesting ideia, but this has some complications. When the puritans came to North America, they expected a new land, true, but they assumed it would have breathable air, water for them to drink (liquid and ACCESSIBLE), soil for them to seed and animals for them to hunt, that is, the basic requisites needed for human survival. The story is a whole lot different on Mars, and I don't think I have to explain why. Nevertheless, your idea is an interesting one, since it would be the first step in spreading the human race throughout the universe, and it would also mean that our neighbor planets would be no longer just potential turist atractions, but real places where real people live! But of course, in order for this to become viable, scientists would have to improve a lot our current space exploration technology, and governments would have to start looking at the solar system (and later, at the stars) with different eyes. However, I just don't think that space exploration will become a real issue until we have consumed all of our natural resources and overpopulation becomes a serious problem. I hope the governments of this planet have the wisdom to antecipate this.