mars my arse, the earth is flat, and the sun revolves around it. don't let them tell you otherwise!
Fact.
Faked.
Undecided.
The Moon is made out of cheese.
This is a discussion on ~Mars Rover Landing...Fact or Faked?~ within the Off-Topic forums, part of the Main Category category; Originally Posted by fstroupe I guess that it really doesn't matter to me if it was faked or not. Maybe ...
I would say not "national Stimulus" but National Pride, AKA look at what we did.... The space program has spearheaded new sciences, and materials that were invented for the space program and were sent to the civilian market, so it has not been a total wash, pricey but not a waste...
Were we on the moon??? well in the paper yesterday there was a story of how they are able to see the American flags left behind by 5 of the 6 missions, (they burned some space telescope time) as well as the equipment left behind, slightly hard to fake that, but there is photo shop....
"The sword dose not cause the murder, and the maker of the sword dose not bear sin" Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac 11th century
"Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out!" Father John Corapi.
mars my arse, the earth is flat, and the sun revolves around it. don't let them tell you otherwise!
I don't think two billion would build many power plants, though. And, to Eagleeyes, where is Tesla's free energy?
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia...Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
Is there oil on Mars? Can we build a pipeline? What practical purpose did this serve?
who gives a crap about oil, besides the oil companies and politicians. the sooner we run out of the crap the sooner we'll get to working on better alternatives, in force.
as for practical purpose, whether you like it or not, sooner or later there will be colonies on mars. the sooner we start planning (in this case studying/testing the environment/etc) for it the better.
plus, can you imagine what would happen if the china commies got there first? a red planet full of red commies? :) they'd claim complete ownership of the planet and their first landing payload would be SAM sites. :)