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yes but definitly a lot smaller something between a deep sea hardsuit and that aliens mechanical lifter.

And for something wonderful and potentially sinister if misused.

Times online, Artificial wombs within 20 years

(sinister ideas)
Well if we can get it to work here is our colonisation problem for Mars sorted send a couple of hundred artificial wombs and a million fertilised eggs and simply keep increasing the population. Not to mention we have a lot of problems with demographics in Europe but with this technology not any more.

Ill have to admit I find that flag design quite horrible. I can see the song the patriotic anthem "to the red white and Blue squiggly bits and numerous balls"

Very patriotic not.

Nah the flag has to mean something look at the flag of the Mars society with the red,green and blue standing out for the world we wish to make.

Lunar republic flag

This again is quite an inspiring flag and one that actually portrays a meaning which can be seen and felt

The Earth Flag contest winner

The winner of the Earthflag contest and it is better than the one we have seen though it could still be improved.

I wish it was sensationalism but those oil production wells in the gulf where all abandoned 2 days ago and the crews returned to land. This is a safety of life thing but with production stalled this will put prices up a bit more sorry folks.

What though is the biggest threat is if New Orleans gets hammered as a large percentage of the USA's refinery,piping and tanker ports are located in and around that city. Any severe damage to the city will be bad for this sector of the oil industry as these are all based on the shore or just behind the threatened levies. One of the principal hubs of the USA's oil production capacity is located 60 miles south of New orleans and with most of the gas and oil from the mexican gulf going through it produces about 30% of the oil needed by the USA.

The Mars society is the Mars society and it is dedicated to Mars. But you must understand that it was formed from the Mars underground and that was a result of the hiatus of the space programme. The first president Bush wanted to get back to space and it was this infamous ninety day report that basically soured that. The Mars society is the result of a wish to do something and go somewhere and Mars is the only world where we can raise another human civilisation.

But though in the Mars society there are people who only want the one destination most people want just to have an increased prescence and capability in space. To do this we need to have infrastructure above the well that is Earth and the capacity for independent operations not dependant on the Earth alone. There are two places where this can be done. The lagrange points or the Moon, the lagrange points will need materials either sent to them from the Moon or from the asteroids. The Moon though already has those materials and even better for operating on, gravity but much weaker and easier to break away from that of the Earth.

The best way to think of the Moon is that of a factory/port area that can power mankind deeper into space and to actually enrich our home planet with the one thing that Earth relies upon. Energy. to quote Dennis Skinner "We go to Mars to bring our civilisation there. We go to the Moon to save our civilisation here."

Actually around the area of Mosul in the Kurdish area is quite a large oil reserve and makes up about 45 to 50% of Iraqs total oil reserves. They also have very good agriculture and large deposits of the mineral chromiun. The problem for the Sunni minority in Iraq is they actually control a very poor economically speaking area of Iraq unlike the Oil rich Shia and Kurds. Even agriculture for the Iraq area is dominated by the Shi'te and Kurds as northern Iraq is quite a reasonable area for agriculture production and the area of the tigris basin in the south is the other.

So for the Sunni it is not such a good situation unless they can keep what is currently Iraq together (frankly a made up state). For the Kurds and Shi'te who where the oppressed under the Sunni Baath party and especially in the Kurdish areas there current independence and wish to do things there own ways makes there desire for a federalist state the dominant thought.

In the referendum we will see the Sunni vote unlike at the last elections and it is likely that this constitution will be shot down. This is bad for us and the USA as this means until the automatic new elections (a consequence of the failed referendum and constitution) and there new negociations for new members of the constitutional forum then the arquements over what the new constitution will look like and when to hold a new referendum. Until this is done there will be a political vacuum and chaos and violence like what we see now. Except the Kurds and the Sh'ite are a lot less likely to be baring the other cheek. We have all the ingredients of a major civil war. In fact we have all the ingredients to start a major war that will pull in a lot of the neighbouring countries.

Imagine a war where the likes of Iran, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Turkey get pulled in. That is the nightmare scenario and one that we in the west have to stop. The only thing that can do this is to keep a large military force in place and to get neutral forces in Iraq into place. This is a strong effective impartial police and Army. The more we can get the country to work again the more we can stop it from disintegrating in a mayhem of blood and terror. Unfortunatly to do this we have to keep the troops in place and that makes them targets and we will have more and more casualties.

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1) A very large fry up and I mean large.

2) A bottle of Irn Bru (scottish drink) It has a miraculous success rate

3) go Hillwalking and it is raining heavily. Your too miserable from the weather to worry about a hangover.

Hope that helps

More likely they are dust blowing across the lenses and we know that the Rovers are dusty as they have an increasing power loss which was once fixed by a martian twister giving one of the rovers a "clean"

Happy Birthday Clark, Have a good one...

I still want those bands I used to have :shock:

Actually one of the reasons that red heads are common in both Ireland and Scotland is that a red haired women though more at risk of melanoma actually has benefits when it comes down to giving birth and other ailments. In redheaded women the gene melanocortin-1 gives redheads a higher pain threshold than other colour of hair women.

It was always thought that redheads had a less resistance to pain but what in fact was happening was that there increased pain protection masked the anaesthetic so that they need more to feel less pain.

From a genetic benefit Women are less pained at giving birth if they are red heads so they are more likely to have more children and so the gene is passed on.

Oh incidentally men get nothing from being redheads apart from insults from the likes of me :twisted:

There is a problem for the USA in this.

You see when these calls are made they give the person aimed at a lot more support from the people of his own country. Frankly all that Pat Robertson has managed to do, is to prove without a doubt to the people of Venezuela that he is being targeted by the USA and no matter his policies they have increased his support. And with President Chavezs policies in the Carribean and South America this will reduce support of the USA there and increase his.

What gives Pat Robertson the right to demand what is against International and USA law the deliberate murder of a foreign national. It makes a nice soundbite but it really is fundamentally stupid and all it has done is hurt the USA. And incidentally what really peaves me as the ally of the USA it hurts Britain too.

One option is that we will use drugs that block the signals that reduce muscle mass and the cause of calcium loss. There is a lot of research into this already as it is a common affliction for elderly and a cure would benefit them too.

There is also a possibility that in the future some of the people we will send will actually be looking for the reduced G as they will have weakenesses in their own bodies that cannot be cured. And there only chance of a decent life