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Poll at Slashdot: cheapest way to mars

post #1 of 8
1/26/04 at 9:17am
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Taken from SlashDot.org
http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1047&aid=-1
  • Fake it back on Earth 14747 / 24%
  • No return journey 9418 / 15%
  • Slingshot + hold breath 3562 / 6%
  • Wait for development of teleportation 1802 / 3%
  • Outsource it to India 18816 / 31%
  • Big tax cuts for Martian businesses 4369 / 7%
  • Wait for Big Crunch, step over 3072 / 5%
  • Send the B ark 3306 / 5%
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post #2 of 8
1/26/04 at 9:23am
I don't know what's worse: the overall silliness of the poll, or that I understood just about every reference including the B Ark!
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post #3 of 8
1/27/04 at 2:57pm
Too bad Jackie Gleason is dead, he could get Alice to the moon for free.
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post #4 of 8
1/28/04 at 2:03pm
"including the B Ark!"

OK, I relent what is that?
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post #5 of 8
1/28/04 at 2:43pm
Those people who bought land on Mars are feeling pretty smug right about now: "Hey! Spirit! You're trespassing!"

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OK, I relent what is that?

The B Ark? It's a reference to THGTTG.
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post #6 of 8
1/28/04 at 6:41pm
THGTTG.


Just in case you are wondering what this is; it is short hand for the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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post #7 of 8
9/1/09 at 12:08am
This suggestion in today's NY Times, to send them to Mars without returning them, isn't a new idea as shown by the poll above.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/opinion/01krauss.html?ref=opinion
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The most challenging impediment to human travel to Mars does not seem to involve the complicated launching, propulsion, guidance or landing technologies but something far more mundane: the radiation emanating from the Sun’s cosmic rays. The shielding necessary to ensure the astronauts do not get a lethal dose of solar radiation on a round trip to Mars may very well make the spacecraft so heavy that the amount of fuel needed becomes prohibitive.

There is, however, a way to surmount this problem while reducing the cost and technical requirements, but it demands that we ask this vexing question: Why are we so interested in bringing the Mars astronauts home again?


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post #8 of 8
9/1/09 at 10:13am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Golgafrincham
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