montanapilot
Well-Known Member
Re: Mars: Let\'s hear some feedback on the issue.
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Okay, so I'll be showing my lefty commie roots here, but so be it.
Instead of devoting money to putting a man on Mars, why don't we do something like devoting it to producing an alternate method for fueling our transportation infrastructure?
For all the advances we've seen in the past 100 years in virtually everything -- we went from cloth planes to hypersonic spy planes, from computers that took up rooms and needed refrigeration systems to ones that fit in the palm of your hand, and so on -- we've relied on the same fuel.
You want a difficult project? We'd only have to find a way to make something so efficient that it gets people to abandon the fossil fuel based systems we have now.
You want a definite payoff? Well, wouldn't it be nice to tell OPEC to go stick it where the sun don't shine since we don't need their oil anymore? Wouldn't it be nice to have a clean, non-polluting source of energy?
I'd rather see our scarce resources devoted to that than putting a man on Mars.
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I agree with you that we need to tell OPEC to shove it. They lead us around by the nose with their pricing tactics and production quotas.
The funny thing is that OPEC has already appealed to the UN (I think it was the UN but dont quote me on it) about getting subsidies when we find a green source of energy. They are already have more money than they no what to do with, but they want a handout? Give me a break!!!
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Okay, so I'll be showing my lefty commie roots here, but so be it.
Instead of devoting money to putting a man on Mars, why don't we do something like devoting it to producing an alternate method for fueling our transportation infrastructure?
For all the advances we've seen in the past 100 years in virtually everything -- we went from cloth planes to hypersonic spy planes, from computers that took up rooms and needed refrigeration systems to ones that fit in the palm of your hand, and so on -- we've relied on the same fuel.
You want a difficult project? We'd only have to find a way to make something so efficient that it gets people to abandon the fossil fuel based systems we have now.
You want a definite payoff? Well, wouldn't it be nice to tell OPEC to go stick it where the sun don't shine since we don't need their oil anymore? Wouldn't it be nice to have a clean, non-polluting source of energy?
I'd rather see our scarce resources devoted to that than putting a man on Mars.
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I agree with you that we need to tell OPEC to shove it. They lead us around by the nose with their pricing tactics and production quotas.
The funny thing is that OPEC has already appealed to the UN (I think it was the UN but dont quote me on it) about getting subsidies when we find a green source of energy. They are already have more money than they no what to do with, but they want a handout? Give me a break!!!
