*Mars and Earth meeting each other*
Mars: "Hey Earth, how's it going?"
Earth: "Not too well. I got **** Sapiens."
Mars: "Oh well, don't worry. I had that once, too. Will pass over again."
Ignorant planetary posts, neither the Moon nor Mars currently have anything of worth to Earth(for example, a suitable atmosphere), so colonizing either one would only waste resources and bankrupt countries. It's not happening. They have nothing to worry about.
all we have to do is say there isn't any oil there, and we'll have 'Murican colonies on Mars witin hours.
There might be legitimate diamonds inside the moon though - if it's a chunk of the Earth it will have carbon, under intesnse pressure and very hot from the impact, gettin squeezed by its own gravity over millions of years...
that's a recipe for diamonds the size of footballs - something we really could make use of (carved diamond being -as strong as is physically possible-, bigger diamonds mean the possibility of diamond tools that are almost indestructible)
Takes at least 14 years to get to Mars, so we would be spent at least 28 years round trip, markets would have fluctuated twice by then.
The only way I could see this happening is if Mars or the moon had something in extreme abundance that is exceedingly rare on the earth that we need. Like whole mountains of pure platinum.
Diamonds not so much since mineral diamonds are used primarily for jewelry and we fabricate industrial diamonds too now so we don't really need to mine them.
Just remember... you can run, but you can't hide.
HUMANITY, F--K YEA!
i know that joke from somewhere....
It's a repost (Yeah, sorry, but it had to be said).
Bah, I find this one better:
*Mars and Earth meeting each other*
Mars: "Hey Earth, how's it going?"
Earth: "Not too well. I got **** Sapiens."
Mars: "Oh well, don't worry. I had that once, too. Will pass over again."
Unless it's completely terminal, a couple of asteroids will cure it well enough.
Ignorant planetary posts, neither the Moon nor Mars currently have anything of worth to Earth(for example, a suitable atmosphere), so colonizing either one would only waste resources and bankrupt countries. It's not happening. They have nothing to worry about.
There might be metal underneath those ground.
all we have to do is say there isn't any oil there, and we'll have 'Murican colonies on Mars witin hours.
There might be legitimate diamonds inside the moon though - if it's a chunk of the Earth it will have carbon, under intesnse pressure and very hot from the impact, gettin squeezed by its own gravity over millions of years...
that's a recipe for diamonds the size of footballs - something we really could make use of (carved diamond being -as strong as is physically possible-, bigger diamonds mean the possibility of diamond tools that are almost indestructible)
Diamond space ships would look pimp as balls.
I seeing Lil Jon will replace its golden tooths with diamonds!
Takes at least 14 years to get to Mars, so we would be spent at least 28 years round trip, markets would have fluctuated twice by then.
The only way I could see this happening is if Mars or the moon had something in extreme abundance that is exceedingly rare on the earth that we need. Like whole mountains of pure platinum.
Diamonds not so much since mineral diamonds are used primarily for jewelry and we fabricate industrial diamonds too now so we don't really need to mine them.