Brenda wrote:
andyt wrote:
Under the right conditions I'd maybe go for it. Thing is that no planet is close enough to have the generation that starts the journey finish it. So unless they come up with FTL, I ain't going.
The way the US is going, pretty soon NASA's budget will consist of $1.49 to buy a pack of looseleaf to research the flight dynamics of paper air planes.
Meh, it only takes about 214 days to get to Mars, so what's stopping you?
Because nobody has suggested this:
Quote:
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
