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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Poll @ Space.com

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*I apologize if this has been posted previously at the boards; I don't recall that it has.  I was a bit surprised with the tally so far.

The poll reads:

President Bush is expected to announce a new mandate for NASA. What should it be?

Humans on Mars. 
Returning humanity to the Moon. 
Energy-beaming power satellites.

--Cindy

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Euler

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From: Corvallis, OR

Registered: 2003-02-06

Posts: 922

Re: Poll @ Space.com

The sad thing is that some people actually voted for the energy-beaming satellites.

Wim

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From: Belgium (Antwerp)

Registered: 2003-11-15

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Re: Poll @ Space.com

46% is for Humans on Mars
37% is for Returning humanity to the Moon
17% is for Energy-beaming power satellites

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Shaun Barrett

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From: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Registered: 2001-12-28

Posts: 2,843

Re: Poll @ Space.com

Thanks, Cindy!
    I would have missed the chance to vote if you hadn't given the 'heads up' on this.
    Oh, in case you were wondering, I voted for 'Humans on Mars'.
    NO! ... REALLY?!!!         :laugh:

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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Poll @ Space.com

Thanks, Cindy!
    I would have missed the chance to vote if you hadn't given the 'heads up' on this.
    Oh, in case you were wondering, I voted for 'Humans on Mars'.
    NO! ... REALLY?!!!         :laugh:

*Shaun!  I'm...I'm shocked!  I'm utterly flabberghasted!  You chose Humans on Mars?!  Whatever possessed you, my good man??

And what a crazy coincidence...I voted the same way!     As a friend of mine was fond of saying:  "Who'dathunk?"

--Cindy   :;):

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--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

~Eternal~

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Registered: 2003-09-25

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Re: Poll @ Space.com

Ehh... Knowing bush its probably space nukes ,
but I voted Humans to mars.

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Christina

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From: UK

Registered: 2002-05-07

Posts: 59

Re: Poll @ Space.com

Thanks for the heads up on that one.

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dicktice

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From: Nova Scotia, Canada

Registered: 2002-11-01

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Re: Poll @ Space.com

Humans on Mars--even one way, for two or more (and 4-years' provisions).

jadeheart

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From: barrow ak

Registered: 2003-11-03

Posts: 134

Re: Poll @ Space.com

Humans on Mars--even one way, for two or more (and 4-years' provisions).

what do you mean by 'even one way?'  do you mean send humans who won't ever return and give em supplies to live 4 years?

i may have misunderstood the meaning, but it does bring up an interesting point in my mind after having observed the enthusiasm of the New Mars clientele:  putting aside the public uproar that would result, i wonder if anybody would volunteer for a suicide humans-to-mars mission?  i wonder how many people believe in the cause to that extent...? 

(i think this idea may have been put into my head by robert L. forward's "rocheworld", which used a similar plot device for an interstellar mission.)

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Euler

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From: Corvallis, OR

Registered: 2003-02-06

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Re: Poll @ Space.com

I might be willing to go on a one-way mission if I were going with poeple I could get along with and if I had suplies/equipment sufficient to survive on Mars indefinately.  I would not go on a mission where the plan is to starve to death after 4 years.