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nathan_forst

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From: Sardis, British Columbia, Cana

Registered: 2003-03-10

Posts: 8

Re: I am new here - Say hello

Hello

My name is Nathan Forst and I moderate for Red Colony. Since this website has put the Red Colony mars pic of the day on I came here to see what the Mars Society is all about.

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Shaun Barrett

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From: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Registered: 2001-12-28

Posts: 2,843

Re: I am new here - Say hello

Nice of you to drop in, Nathan,

    The Mars Society is all about exploring and colonising Mars - preferably sooner rather than later!
    If you look into some of the topics here, though, you could be forgiven for thinking this is nothing more than a political arena!!
    But then, there's a bit of a lull in the amount of new data coming in from Mars probes at present, a situation which we hope will be remedied by about Christmas. So some people tend to turn to politics, I think, to fill in time.

    In any event, there's a lot of interesting stuff in many of our threads and I'm sure you'll find something to your liking if you look around.
    Have fun!
                                     

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Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: I am new here - Say hello

Hey there Nathan, I think I recall some of your posts over at Red Colony.

Good to have you aboard.

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: I am new here - Say hello

Hello

My name is Nathan Forst and I moderate for Red Colony. Since this website has put the Red Colony mars pic of the day on I came here to see what the Mars Society is all about.

*Hi Nathan.  I really like the Earth/Mars Tao [logo] at redcolony.  Very cool.   

Welcome to New Mars!

--Cindy

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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: I am new here - Say hello

If you look into some of the topics here, though, you could be forgiven for thinking this is nothing more than a political arena!!
    But then, there's a bit of a lull in the amount of new data coming in from Mars probes at present, a situation which we hope will be remedied by about Christmas. So some people tend to turn to politics, I think, to fill in time.

*True.  I'd suggest Nathan check the older threads, from roughly June to October 2002; those generally had more Mars-oriented discussions, and less current-events political discussions [not that I mind political conversations, btw; I've gotten involved in some of them myself].

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: I am new here - Say hello

There are probably more philosophical threads than their are political. It's hard to avoid philosophy when you're on a science forum.

I'm kind of shamed a majority of my posts are probably with regard to some sort of philosophy or another, and don't have direct relation to Mars, but oh well.

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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nathan_forst

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From: Sardis, British Columbia, Cana

Registered: 2003-03-10

Posts: 8

Re: I am new here - Say hello

Thank you all for the kind welcome! 

Nice of you to drop in, Nathan,

   The Mars Society is all about exploring and colonising Mars - preferably sooner rather than later!
   If you look into some of the topics here, though, you could be forgiven for thinking this is nothing more than a political arena!!
   But then, there's a bit of a lull in the amount of new data coming in from Mars probes at present, a situation which we hope will be remedied by about Christmas. So some people tend to turn to politics, I think, to fill in time.

   In any event, there's a lot of interesting stuff in many of our threads and I'm sure you'll find something to your liking if you look around.
   Have fun!
                                 

Tell me about it! Over at Red Colony alot of our discussions have turned to "Off Topic" discussions. We have a few on topic discussions...but most of them are terraforming theory. I hope the upcoming probe mission to Mars will give us ALOT more data. I think during lauch and after both Red Colony and New Mars will have an influx of people.

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Life is too precious to waste on such acts as racism, sexism, and difference of creed, because humanity is humanity and we all live under the same roof.