This is how we’re going to invade Mars.
It’s all very technical except for the water divining rods which will just be coat hangers.
A couple of our brave representatives will be there fairly soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmcr2FaoWoU

Fuck Mars. how about we pick one town on Earth of a thousand residents and see if they can manage for a whole growing all their own food and recycling all their own waste, and generate all their own electricity.. If we can’t do this on Earth there is no hope of doing it on Mars.

party_pants said:

Fuck Mars. how about we pick one town on Earth of a thousand residents and see if they can manage for a whole growing all their own food and recycling all their own waste, and generate all their own electricity.. If we can’t do this on Earth there is no hope of doing it on Mars.

Hey, dude, tone it down.

Mars is part of ‘The Programme’.

Getting all the deadwood like e.g. Trump onto the rockets, and telling them they’re going to set up the ‘ideal society’ there.

Once they’re beyond the Moon, we just turn off the radio comms, and enjoy our better world.

Don’t harsh the vibe, ok?

captain_spalding said:

party_pants said:

Fuck Mars. how about we pick one town on Earth of a thousand residents and see if they can manage for a whole growing all their own food and recycling all their own waste, and generate all their own electricity.. If we can’t do this on Earth there is no hope of doing it on Mars.

Hey, dude, tone it down.

Mars is part of ‘The Programme’.

Getting all the deadwood like e.g. Trump onto the rockets, and telling them they’re going to set up the ‘ideal society’ there.

Once they’re beyond the Moon, we just turn off the radio comms, and enjoy our better world.

Don’t harsh the vibe, ok?

How very Golgafrinchan of you.

buffy said:

captain_spalding said:

party_pants said:

Fuck Mars. how about we pick one town on Earth of a thousand residents and see if they can manage for a whole growing all their own food and recycling all their own waste, and generate all their own electricity.. If we can’t do this on Earth there is no hope of doing it on Mars.

Hey, dude, tone it down.

Mars is part of ‘The Programme’.

Getting all the deadwood like e.g. Trump onto the rockets, and telling them they’re going to set up the ‘ideal society’ there.

Once they’re beyond the Moon, we just turn off the radio comms, and enjoy our better world.

Don’t harsh the vibe, ok?

How very Golgafrinchan of you.

Oh, we’ll keep the telephone sanitisers.

captain_spalding said:

buffy said:

captain_spalding said:

Hey, dude, tone it down.

Mars is part of ‘The Programme’.

Getting all the deadwood like e.g. Trump onto the rockets, and telling them they’re going to set up the ‘ideal society’ there.

Once they’re beyond the Moon, we just turn off the radio comms, and enjoy our better world.

Don’t harsh the vibe, ok?

How very Golgafrinchan of you.

Oh, we’ll keep the telephone sanitisers.

But, but…Trump would so fit in with them for vanity.

Peak Warming Man said:

This is how we’re going to invade Mars.
It’s all very technical except for the water divining rods which will just be coat hangers.
A couple of our brave representatives will be there fairly soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmcr2FaoWoU

Thanks for that youtube. Very enlightening.

I’ll just get a bit of politics out of the way first.

• I am coming to dislike the word “invasion”. It used to be just a bit of fun, like the myth of the Viking invasion of England. But it’s recently become too freighted in realpolitik.
• The best place for the Golgafrinchans is a one way trip to “Trump Islands”, a group of currently-uninhabited subantarctic islands. Don’t waste space flight.
• “back to the Moon in a sustainable way” – yeacch.
• “free up NASA resources for space exploration” – not a chance in hell. Oh wait, they don’t mean “resources”, they mean “cash”.

“Boeing, if all goes well, manned spaceflight early next year” – that’s news to me.

“Dragon capsule limitation on time in low earth orbit due to oxygen in the upper atmosphere” – wasn’t expecting that.

“Next SpaceX manned flight to space August 21, 2020”.

“Soyuz flights cost $80 million per seat. New flights only $55 million per seat”. Hmm, a 30% price reduction from 50 years of development, not a huge improvement, that’s the problem with space.

“Axiom commercial space flights sending astronauts to the space station in 2021”.

(Taking a break from watching, 8 and a half minutes in).