Oh yeah, real effective, hide an 18 tonne tank behind a tree. Next they'll program it to stick its head in the ground. You can't see me if I can't see you!
I notice this got modded as Funny, but I'd dig this kind of thing too. You could do it with a simple flight simulator too, like that flying bicycle action mentioned earlier.
I have this great image of a guy in workout clothes going to the arcade, throwing a towel over the seat and plunking in quarters while he sweats away between SanFrancisco Rush and Area 51.
At the very least it'd make a pretty amusing commercial.
Clearly Mars has far more potential to colonize (maybe even terraform?), but how about trying to establish a Moon colony first.
Establishing a Moon colony doesn't provide the necessity of maintenance that a Mars colony would though because you can always get people back from a Moon colony in a matter of hours/days. This would likely result in another ISS debacle where it doesn't get maintained because it's not required to be.
Putting people on Mars where they're months away with little or no method of getting home puts far more pressure on government and industry to maintain and develop an installation since there are human lives on the line and no other viable recourse.
You could say it puts the gun of public pressure to the heads of those that are more interested in profit than Grand Exploration.
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Currently my day is split into thirds: Working, Sleeping, and Other. If I could find a job that involved sleeping for 8 hours, man, I'd be set.
Oh yeah, real effective, hide an 18 tonne tank behind a tree. Next they'll program it to stick its head in the ground. You can't see me if I can't see you!
I notice this got modded as Funny, but I'd dig this kind of thing too. You could do it with a simple flight simulator too, like that flying bicycle action mentioned earlier.
I have this great image of a guy in workout clothes going to the arcade, throwing a towel over the seat and plunking in quarters while he sweats away between SanFrancisco Rush and Area 51.
At the very least it'd make a pretty amusing commercial.
Clearly Mars has far more potential to colonize (maybe even terraform?), but how about trying to establish a Moon colony first.
Establishing a Moon colony doesn't provide the necessity of maintenance that a Mars colony would though because you can always get people back from a Moon colony in a matter of hours/days. This would likely result in another ISS debacle where it doesn't get maintained because it's not required to be.
Putting people on Mars where they're months away with little or no method of getting home puts far more pressure on government and industry to maintain and develop an installation since there are human lives on the line and no other viable recourse.
You could say it puts the gun of public pressure to the heads of those that are more interested in profit than Grand Exploration.