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Topic History of: Politeness posters please Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Green Man
Shatner probably saw the destruction that people cause to the planet.
Maybe using human fat to make biofuel is not a bad idea. WEF has called us "useless humans" for a long time now. Also when you look at the amount of cosmetic surgery that going on, there will not be a shortage of human fat, some people in the States probably have 2 zip codes, one for each bum cheek. Also using faeces to generate power goes back years.
Remember in The Good Life where Tom's generator was powered by animal waste?
People didn't moan about horses being used to make glue, which still happens in certain parts of the world.
hedda
Rich wrote: hedda wrote: I met Buzz Aldrin. Tiny little man.
Going to the Moon was superb. I watched it on a B/W TV.
But why Mars? Useless red rock with nothing there. A giant boondoggle and waste of $Billions for Musk.
I remember a mountaineer once being asked why he climbs mountains, and his repsonse was "because they're there". Same with Mars.
I bet if you could fly in comfort to Mars in total guaranteed safety for free and it took just a few hours to get there and back and you were offered the chance for a sightseeing trip on the surface for a couple of hours you'd be unable to resist it.
Well no not me personally as I get claustrophobia and the notion of being inside a rocket scares me. Even flying in jets as I've done so many times entailed a few Valium.
I'm mindful of the actor William Shatner who said he felt sort of very empty after his flight into space.
I also recall visiting a Russian version of a Space Shuttle and it was scary. Thins were held together by gaffer tape.
I was once invited to and declined a junket to travel on The Ghan a sort of luxury train that travels from Adelaide to Darwin for 4 days. Crossing endless red rock country for days..just like the Mars landscape.
Rich
hedda wrote: I met Buzz Aldrin. Tiny little man.
Going to the Moon was superb. I watched it on a B/W TV.
But why Mars? Useless red rock with nothing there. A giant boondoggle and waste of $Billions for Musk.
I remember a mountaineer once being asked why he climbs mountains, and his repsonse was "because they're there". Same with Mars.
I bet if you could fly in comfort to Mars in total guaranteed safety for free and it took just a few hours to get there and back and you were offered the chance for a sightseeing trip on the surface for a couple of hours you'd be unable to resist it.
Green Man
hedda wrote: I met Buzz Aldrin. Tiny little man.
Going to the Moon was superb. I watched it on a B/W TV.
But why Mars? Useless red rock with nothing there. A giant boondoggle and waste of $Billions for Musk.
Stephen Hawking said that Mars needs to be the next planet to save the human race. Musk has a thing for rockets and space.