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#1 Re: Human missions » Russia proposes 2015 human mission - That's a little more like it! » 2005-10-02 17:41:02
Ah, the dreams of age ... fraught with impatience to witness us safely off the Home Planet, for good.
That could be my own deep reason for a 50-years maniacal interest in space exploration.
#2 Re: Human missions » Griffin: Shuttle, ISS were *-Mistakes-* » 2005-09-28 18:06:36
The Apollo days (though I'd just turned 4 years old in July 1969) were so heady, optimistic, can-do. Amazing, exhilarating. I can feel that magnificent impulse stirring in my veins again; always, when I remember. It's like nothing else.
I want others -- our younger generations -- to have the opportunity to experience this, too.
--Cindy
I was 14 in 1969. You have perfectly described my own feelings at the time, too. So many hopes... still unfulfilled... :?
#3 Re: Human missions » Griffin: Shuttle, ISS were *-Mistakes-* » 2005-09-28 17:54:02
That anyone may wish to spend some bazillion dollars more, and probably some more lives, on Shuttle and ISS is Beyond the Pale... makes me suspect that a lot of people don't really like the idea of humans putting foot on other worlds.
Human space exploration has actually ceased after the last Apollo. It would be time to return to the Moon, put permanent bases on it, go to Mars, put permanent bases on it, go to... er... Titan?, put permanent bases on it... you get the picture. OK, time frame 50/100 years, but 30 years have been wasted in the meantime. Doing nothing. But spending a lot.
It's strange. We aren't really too far from "2001" the movie, but it's robots that get doing all the interesting things. Humans get functioning as the communication gateways between cell phones.
#4 Re: Unmanned probes » Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) » 2005-09-02 18:43:30
Though everyone is probably well aware of that, I find it my duty to add that I found the above picture in this forum:
#5 Re: Unmanned probes » Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) » 2005-09-02 18:05:24
Palomar, I was wondering whether you have seen this. Maybe not 100% accurate, but gorgeous. Just in the very unlikely case you haven't seen it yet...
#6 Re: Unmanned probes » Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) » 2005-03-14 20:22:24
I think that's very fair comment .. when do we leave?!
Welcome to New Mars, Mac!
Shaun, thanks a lot, really a lot for your kind welcome. Leaving for Mars... how would I love it... only I would maybe betray our favourite planet for ... Titan. Those tales of methane rivers/lakes/seas, infrared methane rainbows, water-ice volcanoes, Icarus-like flying in the dense, low-gravity atmosphere (not to speak of the California shoreline photographed by Huygens) have totally conquered me. Not that I would despise a Christmas holiday spent at Mars' North Pole... 
MacAndrew
#7 Re: Unmanned probes » Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) » 2005-03-10 01:27:25
Hoagland, imho, is the worst of these and should be shot for being an intelectual terrorist.
Shot? Why not burned at the stake? 
Though I am aware it may amaze some, Mr. Hoagland has the same right to his - admittedly very questionable - opinions about Mars as anybody else.
Saying that one should be shot for thinking that the "face on Mars" is a real artifact etc. does not strike me as very "scientific" (and no, I don't think it's a real artifact).
About the colours of Mars - I have yet to understand why this subject seems to be considered "taboo" by somebody. By now, I have read hundreds of documents about it and, as a net result, I am sure of only one thing - namely, that I would have to go to Mars myself to get any realistic idea of its colours.
MacAndrew
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