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#1 Re: Pictures of Mars » MAAS Digital MER movie - American Beauty soundtrack » 2007-03-28 16:42:31

Sorry to bump this, but anyone?  Anyone?  Please?  When I first watched that movie it brought tears to my eyes because the music fit it so beautifully.

#2 Re: Pictures of Mars » New Face on mars - Highy detailed face (not a hoax) » 2007-03-18 15:38:02

the link doesn't work anymore.  can somebody post a picture?

#3 Re: Pictures of Mars » MAAS Digital MER movie - American Beauty soundtrack » 2007-03-18 15:36:36

When this movie was fist released, music from American Beauty was used as the soundtrack.  It seems as though somebody threw a copyright fit, because none of the download sources that I try have the music anymore, and I thought it fit the animation beautifully.

Does anyone still have the original movie with the music from American Beauty, at a relatively high resolution?  I would appreciate it so much if someone could hook me up.  We can do an AIM transfer or I can set up an FTP or something.  I just REALLY miss the original movie/music.  I used to get really emotional watching it because the music was just RIGHT for it.

So yeah.  Please someone help me out here?

#4 Re: Not So Free Chat » Mars Frontier Novel - New web location » 2007-03-18 15:31:16

Is this novel a method of encouraging the public awareness of the bahai faith?  I haven't read any of it yet, but I did notice that the bahai faith is mentioned here and there and might even play a prominent role in the plot.

I'm just curious because it would help me to decide whether or not to read it, because I really don't want to subject myself to someone else's propganda concerning their religious faith.

Please don't take offense at this post, I am not trying to be offensive and I apologize if I come off that way.

#5 Re: Not So Free Chat » TOY SPACE SHIP DESIGN CONTEST » 2007-03-18 15:14:30

how about posting the submitted entries so far?  it would be fun to see what people have come up with

#6 Re: Not So Free Chat » GreenPeace - GreenPeace » 2003-05-08 19:28:22

yah i agree with marshuy he is right yes i do care about the enviornment but i aint all in tp tree hugging and shot it just aint my kinda thing and saveing the animals and trees well if u ever heard things live to make other people kive animals for instance r one of them and trees !

dude lay off the alcohol

#9 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Orion Starship Exhibit - publicly funded tourist attraction. » 2003-05-01 15:27:25

Interesting idea, but if you're going to build a space theme park, it definitely needs to be based on something a lot more interesting to the public eye than Orion.  Sure, WE all love the Orion concept and we'd all love to see it come to fruition, but come ON, this thing would never get financed as a theme park.  You're talking about building a fully functional starship (in theory) but using it as a tourist attraction.  Your enthusiasm for Orion is heartening, but sorry... this just isn't interesting in the long run to the average money spender.  Its like selling tickets to tour an aircraft carrier or submarine.  It would be a better idea to design a space theme park that would actually attract visitors, then use the profits from THAT to build a REAL Orion that you can actually launch.

#10 Re: Unmanned probes » MOLTOV - Mars Orbital Laboratory... launch in '05 » 2003-04-15 13:25:21

do you have anyone working on graphics or logos for your mission?  its the only thing I'm qualified to do that would actually fit into a real Mars mission, and I would like to be a part of this in some way.  cool

#11 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Martian Weather - The view from your window... » 2003-04-15 12:03:08

i gotta say... very interesting!  the equator station temperature actually reached about 34 degrees F!

good job on the site

#13 Re: New Mars Articles » The Case for Orion. - Article submittal. » 2003-04-15 11:07:59

First of all, I'm the first one to jump up and say 'Lets build and launch an Orion!'  I don't mean for my comments to be dissected and rebutted as though I were one of these ignorant fraidy cats who are scared of a little nuclear creativity.

I don't mean its ludicrous in principle or practice, only ludicrous in a PR sense.  It just ain't gonna happen, not right away, and definitely not while groups like Greenpeace and extreme leftists have any lobbying power.  I mean... if people are going to raise a stink about Cassini because it has a nuclear power source, they DAMN sure will raise a major sh*t storm about having nukes detonated on the planet to launch a spacecraft.  Sorry, thats just the way it is for now.   

However, I for one am all for Orion.  If by some chance a miracle occurs and this thing ever really gets built (I still think building the thing in orbit and then launching it would be WAY more feasable in a PR sense) ... bring on the nuclear put put boat!

#14 Re: Terraformation » Your Ethical Questions Addressed - Ecoethics and terraformation » 2003-04-14 17:23:46

Terraforming is ethically corrupt. But so is landing humans on Mars since the bugs that humans carry with them could hurt the local indigenous bugs leading to Martian ecocide! We should leave Mars alone, ENTIRELY!!!

If one accepts that an environment and a non-human lifeform are of value, then one would do what one can to protect them. On Earth, this means not blowing up nuclear devices in such environments, not polluting such environments, not unnessarily killing the organisms in such environments. The same applies to Mars. IT IS JUST THAT TO DO THIS, WE MUST NOT GO TO MARS IN THE FIRST PLACE SINCE TO DO SO WOULD ENDANGER SUCH VALUED ENVIRONMENTS AND THE LIFEFORMS THEY CONTAIN!

Landing humans on Mars is the same ecological action as going to Yellowstone and spreading Agent Orange all over it, or going to the Lakes District and blowing it up with a nuclear device!

REALISE THIS: There's no special moral treatment I'm giving Mars, except that which the Martian environment requires for its own protection.

Now, my own intrinisic value means that I might undertake means to defend my own well-being to the detriment of the intrinsic value of other organisms. As I need to eat and clean and wash and defacate to survive, I can only apologise to those beings whose lives I destroy in these acts. I do not-- however--need to go to Mars to maintain my well-being--therefore it is unethical for me to endanger the intrinsic life of lifeforms that may exist there! And neither should you!

Its people like this that really 'tick' me off.  How dare you put yourself in a position to presume what is or isn't 'morally' correct for human beings, a naturally occuring species, to do?  Your personal moral and aesthetic preferences are steeped in a self-gratifying quagmire of self righteous, self gratyfying moral judgements which you presume to spray upon all those you survery.  Screw you, says I.  The human race will do what comes natural, for good or for ill... which is a TOTALLY objective observation.  To PRESUME that we, as a species, will somehow cause an even which isn't NATURAL is presumptuous in the extreme.

#15 Re: Terraformation » Rapid Terraforming... - ...the most ambitious ideas? » 2003-04-14 17:13:46

Youse guys're so eager to louse-up Mars, even before we get there! That's all we need: Hungry bugs introduced by youse, t'make life on Mars even more hellish 'n it already is. Keep yer cotton-pickin' hands off, see? until we get there, so's ya'll know what the heck yer doin'...get me?

LOL you sound like Anne, the Red Radical from Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy.
Anywho...
Auqakah, have you read those books?  They're steeped in just enough science to make a 200 year complete terraforming of Mars sound 'almost' plausable.  smile
Here's to hoping   :;):

#16 Re: New Mars Articles » The Case for Orion. - Article submittal. » 2003-04-14 16:54:09

I agree, Orion is a very interesting concept, but I never envisioned it as an earth to orbit vehicle, but an interplanetary one.  The concept of using a ship propelled by nuclear blasts in order to reach space is ludicrous.  By that I mean... it would never EVER be accepted and implemented.  However, the ONE Orion launch you suggested may be feasible, if you could load it up with enough cargo to build an entire space station, plus a few more Orions.  Fallout would not be a problem in space.

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