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Is that Adobe program a little like a graphical chatroom?  Your ideas seem similiar to the concept of an mmorpg where there's an online "world" people log into and out of.

I have no problems with the Chinese colonizing parts of Mars.  Nothing would energize the US more than China getting cocky and claiming Mars as its sovereign territory!  So I say go China!  And everybody leave the guns at home!

I wonder if there will ever be technology that could survive a descent clear down to Jupiter's solid core.  That would be an adventure indeed.

It's amazing how many cars a key can fit.  The manufacturers must only use a limited number of key templates or some keys must turn out so similiar that they work anyway even if meant to be basically unique.  Anyways it's good you realized your mishap before you drove it home and then realized you stole a car.

Hello Ranger!  I know that you can equivocate the nanometer in the imperial system but tell me which unit of measure is easier to use.  1 nanometer or 3.94 * 10^-4 mils.  That second choice looks a little scary.  I'm not sure what your getting at by saying the nanometer isn't an official unit.  It's a legitimate member of the metric system that's used by scientists and engineers. 

Think of the engineers whose jobs revolve around converting to and from BESU (British Engineering System of Units) to SI (Le Systeme International) to USCS (United States Conventional System) to MKS (meter-kilogram-second) to Lbm (pound mass) to Lbf (pound force).  Thousands of engineers doing differential eqautions and Laplacian Transforms for food.  Blasphemy I say! 

LOL!  I wouldn't mind just switching over to SI since it's practically the same thing as the more barbaric version of the metric system only the base unit lengths are based on different things.  I'll take any system that is decimal oriented and uses a base of ten over something like this:

Have mercy!  :0

I'm kind of leaning toward not having more oxygen.  It could create a problem with flammability if the proportion of oxygen is too high.  Of course it's possible NASA has solved this problem already or I doubt if they'd be using such high oxygen proportions.  But just using my gut, I think it'd be better to use gases in proportions that we're used to here on Earth since that combination of gases seems safer.  I'd hate to see someone brushing the Martian dust off their suit only to cause an electrostatic discharge and blow up the hab (yeah I know they'll use vaccuums or something for that purpose, just a figure of speech. )

Oh no, I don't think he could bare the news.  He's probably been waiting his entire life to meet the Eskimos that live up there.

Maybe Dickbill was thinking of the New Mars crescents which are blue and red.    And don't touch the New Mars logo, it's perfect as is even though I understand Dickbill's point that it might have some similiarities to certain flags.

I don't remember which article I cut and pasted these from but if you could choose a mission from these three which one one would you choose?

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(1) A mission to drop three entry probes into different parts of Jupiter's atmosphere simultaneously to make measurements at a much greater depth than the Galileo entry probe did -- after which the main carrier spacecraft will put itself into a polar orbit around Jupiter to further study the planet's atmospheric makeup and (through gravity and magnetic data) its internal structure.
(2) A mission to land a spacecraft on Venus which would hastily grab a surface sample and then inflate a heat-resistant balloon to loft itself back into the planet's safely cool cloud layer to analyze the sample in leisurely detail (as well as doing atmospheric studies).
(3) A craft to rendezvous with a comet, land very briefly on its nucleus to scoop up a 1-kg sample, and return it to Earth (with the sample being kept cool enough to prevent its water ice from melting, although the lower-temperature ices in it would be allowed to vaporize to cut the mission's cost, with their gases being preserved in the sample container).
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I'd choose mission two if the probe had cameras that could survive the crushing conditions of Venus.  I want to see lakes of lead and the nature of its landscape in visible wavelengths and maybe a lucky glimpse of the Wild West town that exists there as reported in a popular tabloid a few years ago. But if cameras weren't allowed I'd vote for number three, the comet sample return mission.

I've done that with cars before.  I have a bad time remembering where I park in big parking lots and more than once I've found myself trying to get into somebody else's car.  God forbid the day my key actually fits!

Even though I don't usually find myself trying to defend NASA, I think NASA is a victim of politicians and a public that has a low tolerance of failure and has proved itself willing to axe the budget in moments of disaster.  People need to realize that when your pushing the technological envelope and doing things that haven't been done before or aren't routine there's going to be a greater chance for failure regardless of all the steps you take to insure success.  I think NASA would be a lot more willing to get risky if they didn't risk a hostile public and Congress pointing fingers of death in their direction after every mishap.  Of course I'm not defending NASA get sloppy either.  So if the public and their representatives wouldn't breathe down NASA's throat over every little mishap maybe NASA would be more willing to try riskier ventures.  Well that's my two cents at least.  I'm sure someone will blow my viewpoints to pieces.

Greetings alienbaby!  Judging from your message board Martians must be an eclectic bunch.  They even have Xbox!