New Mars Forums

Whoa dude,
that's cool!

Groan, I want Half-life 2 now.

I thought the Red Mars was the best. Green Mars was cool too, but I didn't like Blue Mars. Especially when KSR was going on about all the stuff about the old people's minds decaying. That just completely went whoosh over my head. Also I had a great hatred towards Ann and Jakie, those characters seriously got under my skin.

Overall, I thought the series was really inspring. It is the reason why I am on these forums.

Yup, I meant song lyrics. I guess I need to practice my creative writing a bit more...

Those are quite cool, do you mind if I kinda um... 'borrowed' them for a song?

The New Zealand News about 5 minutes ago, said a report had been released into the Columbia crash which points the blame at NASA itself. It said something like NASA had it's prioties wrong when it came to safety and they ignored some signs that things were going wrong. That pretty much lines up with what a radio programme said about 20 minutes ago.

Hmm, I think that is the report Cindy is refering to.

Yeah, I reckon; sport suits will be designed for mobility and strength so enviro-suits could be improved by taking elements out of the sport suits. Maybe a new age of designer clothing: The latest Nike enviro-suit, the latest and greatest in finesse, strength and style.

Indoor events?
Hmm, probably depends on the space available, but I'm sure people will come up with games and stuff to do around the hab. Like that game in KSR's Red Mars on the Ares where they push themselves and see how far they float down the corridor with the zero-g.

But I reckon Mars will be the place to be for extreme sports. Imagine absailing down Vallis Marineris, that'd be awesome!!

How about the pole vault or discuss or something? They'd be pretty wicked.

Shooting maybe, better accuracy in the low g.
Dunno ay, there are lots of sports that would be cool in a Mars environment.
Cool in both sences of the word, imagine sumo wrestling or something. *shivers*

But wouldn't it be dangerous? Your enviro-suit thingy could break, but I suppose they would design ones especially for the different sports.

Wasn't Brazil where that rocket exploded on the launch pad a few days back?

Ok, cool.

Yeah, I was thinking I would need geology, engineering, nuclear physics (want to do something with nuclear energy), and probably chemisty also.

Hehe, wouldn't wanna do that, mate.

Can't remember,
it said in earlier in the thread didn't it?

I could've read the book faster but my mother kept on nicking it whenever I put it down. 

I've started reading the series again, and i've found all these places where the plot is slightly mismatched. For example, in the first book Harry starts learning about Jupiter's moons, but in book five he's still having trouble with which one is Europa or Io. I thought that was rather amusing.

Very true, I don't think anybody wants to see our civilization self-destruct.

But how the hell do you stop the killing in countries where there are dictators or like Israel, a country completely set into the notion of eye-for-and-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth?

For example, sitting back and letting Saddam murder 'his' people does about the same to world peace as going in a taking his regime out. The only real difference is people died for a cause when Iraq was invaded, instead of dieing needlessly at the hands of a murderer.

But isn't the only thing in a neutron star exactly that - neutrons?

Are these like neutron organisms?