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#1 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Greek Letter Delta in Physics » 2006-05-26 10:56:31

Ian

Does the greek letter delta mean "change in" in physics equations when it's right side up?

#2 Re: Life on Mars » Just other Visitors » 2006-05-26 10:20:20

Ian

I posted something in one of your message boards by accident. It was in only for moderators. I edited it and removed the words from that. I may have done it more than once by accident. Is that ok?

#3 Re: Not So Free Chat » Howdoyougetatelegraphoperatatinglicense?Doesanyonehereknow? » 2006-05-26 10:14:46

Ian

I'm sorry about putting something in the discription for moderators. That was an accident.

#4 Re: Not So Free Chat » Howdoyougetatelegraphoperatatinglicense?Doesanyonehereknow? » 2006-05-26 10:12:39

Ian

I'm sorry about typing in below the top box. That was an accident.

#5 Re: Not So Free Chat » Howdoyougetatelegraphoperatatinglicense?Doesanyonehereknow? » 2006-05-26 09:55:35

Ian

How do you get a telegraph operating license? Does anyone here know? Does anyone know if you just hook it up to existing cables or does someone have to build cables from house to house? Do the old cables still work and is that still being used today? I heard that it is.

#6 Re: Life support systems » Nanotechnology and bioengennering for terraforming. » 2006-04-27 09:02:50

Ian

Is it possible to use nanotechnology to accelorate plant growth on Mars and is it possible to use machines like the one in the Apollo 13 module to take out the carbon dioxide and use it to just leave the oxygen and add nitrogen on Mars?

#7 Re: Not So Free Chat » Doanyofyouknowanygoodhamradiostationstolistento? » 2006-04-25 02:07:39

Ian

Do any of you know any good ham radio stations to listen too and do any of you have a ham radio so that I can listen in on conversations about mars? Or Do any of you know what frequencies in the Mhz that the Mars Desert Research Station uses? They probably have a ham radio to communicate with. I have a poilce scanner that can pick up ham radio frequencies.

#8 Re: Human missions » Against the Human Exploration of Mars if Everyone can't go. » 2005-08-13 13:14:47

Ian

Ah, so you would then discriminate against non-minority students just because of their ethnicity? My, how... hypocritica.

I don't discriminate against non-minority students just because of their ethnicity. I also just would like to end this argument and get on with life. I also would like to get back on to the topic of Human Exploration of Mars. Which is what this Fourum is about. Talking about politics is for another board.

#9 Re: Human missions » Against the Human Exploration of Mars if Everyone can't go. » 2005-08-13 09:47:46

Ian

People who don't support democracy are TYRANTS and AUTOCRATS who think that literacy, learning adn books and newspapers are somehow dangerous, but it's all about who has power over others and TYRANTS and AUTOCRATS are afraid of losing their power over others. So they come up with arguments that are against all froms of education and you protest agianst equality because you are afraid that you will lose power.

#10 Re: Human missions » Against the Human Exploration of Mars if Everyone can't go. » 2005-08-13 09:44:01

Ian

All of these arguments are from people who don't support democracy. You try to come up with all of these arguments against compulsory education and public education and free schools and everyone having access to books. I am in philadelphia and here, everyone is givin a chance to have an education.

#11 Re: Human missions » Against the Human Exploration of Mars if Everyone can't go. » 2005-08-13 09:18:43

Ian

People have equal rights but people are not equal in every respect since people are different, and if one job requires abilities you don't have, thats too bad. Picking astronauts by lottery would be a completly stupid thing for NASA to do.

Anybody can do anything if they put their mind to it. Also, people can teach themselves and also, I don't support your philosophy of not giving everyone equal access to an education. This is probably why there is compulsory education for all young people. People like you shouldn't be allowed to stop people from getting an education. The collages in Pennsylvania are against discrimination and they support diversity in their collages. You are saying that you would try to stop people from getting an education. I think that it should be a human right to have an education and people like you shouldn't stop everyone from being educated. Since education is the path to freedom. Do you support freedom? If you don't support equal access to education, then you don't support democracy and that shoudln't be tolerated. There should be a law saying that everyone should be educated and I think that it is a law.

#12 Re: Human missions » Against the Human Exploration of Mars if Everyone can't go. » 2005-08-13 08:10:57

Ian

"Stratification" and "eliteism" are natural consequences that not everyone is the same. I have skills in chemistry, physics, and a bit of math but other people have skills in biology and medicine or engineering and piloting. More generally, different people have different talents and abilities to contribute to society, and quite often some abilities are more useful to society then others... and these persons who are more demanded, are similarly more rewarded. Thats about all there is to it, and there is nothing inherintly wrong or immoral about this fact of socioeconomics.

So basically, you support kicking those who don't know much out on the street and not giving them an education and you also probably support forcing these people to work against their will for food and basic resources? I think that everybody should be able to get an education and it's possible to be an engineer and also a philosopher although I am not an engineer, I could be a lot of things all at once if I got degrees in everything. Are you against democracy and equality? Are you one of those people who want to attack equality and the ideals that the people who founded the United States believed in? People like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine and everyone else who created this country supported ideals like everyone being equal and eventually because of what they did a lot of civil rights movements started all over the world and now everybody is struggling to see everyone as an equal even though they have different backgrounds or different kinds of knowledge. I support equality do you?

#14 Re: Human missions » Against the Human Exploration of Mars if Everyone can't go. » 2005-08-13 05:52:57

Ian

Also, who supports where it says in the Declaration of Independance that all men are created Equal. Of course I am for the rights of women and back then there was only a small women's rights movement starting. I am just one of those men who supports the equality of women and everybody.

#15 Re: Human missions » Against the Human Exploration of Mars if Everyone can't go. » 2005-08-13 05:49:54

Ian

I am not a communist or a capatilist because I think that both social systems have problems but I also think that socialism has some problems too, but I think that in all cultures therer is some form of discrimination because usually there are going to be people who are afraid of including those who are different into a democracy and I'm just against discriminatoin and I am for equality.

#16 Re: Human missions » Against the Human Exploration of Mars if Everyone can't go. » 2005-08-12 16:35:54

Ian

I am against the Human Exploration of Mars if only a few people could go instead of ordinary and calling someone ordinary is segragating them from people who are considered not ordinary and I think that treating Astronauts the way that people are treating them as people who are somehow better than everyone else and I think that people who want to treat a small number of people as somehow better than someone else to me is somehow ELITIST and it's also discrimination against people. I also don't want any class system to be on Mars if humans actually go there and set up a society. I think that a "CLASS" system of stratification or any stratification is oppression and that it shouldn't happen if anyone trys to build a colony on Mars. I don't want there to be a class system like there was on the Titanic in 1912. Back then, people were segragated into CASTS and I don't want people to do that in today's society especially on airplanes. I think that airplanes shouldn't have any Class Seperation. People should pay for an airplane by giving the airplane company the same amount of money for services on the airplane that everyone else pays.  The back and the front of an airplane should be the same with no Classes. I don't want just "A FEW" to be able to go to Mars. I want it to be everyone and I don't like the companies that are sending just the Rich and the "FEW" into space.

#17 Re: Human missions » Nasa and Space Exploration » 2005-06-05 06:01:09

Ian

Nasa shouldn't just send up military recconisance satellites and weather satellites they should go further rather than just going into orbit. I don't think that the purpose of Nasa should be to just launch recconisance satellites and weather satellites and going into orbit. I think that it should explore space instead of just staying near the Earth.

#18 Re: Martian Politics and Economy » What kind of social system will be on Mars » 2005-04-30 11:42:27

Ian

What kind of social system will be on Mars? Will it be Communist, Capitalist, or Socialist? What kind of society will form on Mars?

#19 Re: Martian Politics and Economy » Taxes and Mars - Taxes and Mars » 2005-04-29 08:38:02

Ian

Companys sometimes go out of business after a while. Would there be any other terraforming compainies like you described after that? How long would such a company last?

#20 Re: Martian Politics and Economy » Who should first go to mars - Who should first go to mars. » 2005-04-28 14:11:05

Ian

What kinds of people should be on the first mission to Mars? I think it should be people who have the merit to go to Mars and not just the wealthy. I think that it should be the people who know how the spacecraft works and how to pilot it and who are scientists and the people who fly it should be people who have experience flying planes and who have flown in simulators. They should choose people like Nasa choose the people who went to the moon. Those people weren't rich but they were very educated and they had enough merit to do it.

#21 Re: Martian Politics and Economy » Taxes and Mars - Taxes and Mars » 2005-04-28 13:59:17

Ian

Do you think that the investors will pay for people who have merit to go to Mars? Also, which investors will pay for it? Will private compainies give money to pay for a Mars Mission? Which corporations will pay for a small crew to go to Mars?

#22 Re: Martian Politics and Economy » Taxes and Mars - Taxes and Mars » 2005-04-28 13:04:24

Ian

Some people think that going to Mars might be a waste of their money. I don't think it is but what should we say about it. I think that that is what got the missions to the Moon stoped along with everybody thinking that we already beat the Russians. I think that everyone should think of what to say in defense of going to Mars when people start to think about taxes and problems here on Earth. There is a conflict between people who want to use taxes to go to Mars and people who want to solve problems here on Earth. How should we respond to these issues. I'm not against going to Mars, but I've become aware of these issues and I don't know what to say about them when I talk about how someday people will go to Mars to others. What should we all say to the people who worry about the costs of all of this so that we can actually go to Mars?

#23 Re: Human missions » Mars On Earthpolitician  Against SpaceExploration - Mars On Earth » 2005-03-09 12:55:19

Ian

How did the Europeans claim land over here in the 17'th century and how did they make that actually work?

#24 Re: Human missions » Mars On Earthpolitician  Against SpaceExploration - Mars On Earth » 2005-02-22 13:24:19

Ian

Does anyone think that ordinary people can buy real estate on Mars just like some company did with the moon?

#25 Re: Human missions » Mars On Earthpolitician  Against SpaceExploration - Mars On Earth » 2005-02-18 06:16:57

Ian

They experiment if zero gravity on the space station how to improve industries and agriculture and medicine and they are also studying our planet from space and I don't know if they are doing anything that would help us get to Mars except if they have a docking port for the Mars Colony Ship that would go to and from Mars, that would make it easier. The ship wouldn't have to immediatly have to land on the ground. There could be small ships that would go from the Earth to the small docking ports in the International Space Station and those small ships would be able to land safely on the ground similar to how the space shuttle lands on the ground and the ships could also dock with another space station orbiting mars and that one should also have docking ports for small spacecraft designed to land on mars like the lander that is already designed to land on Mars and if it's not designed for that, I think that it should be.

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