Kidney Punch.... 5 Point Penalty....
So, if I'm understanding this correctly, scientists have, after years of extensive study, have figured out that
THIS PLANET SUCKS!
Again, couldn't resist. Me and my bad puns!
Seriously, though, it's always good to see further evidence of a theory being on the right track. I find it pleasantly interesting that a patent clerk's insights into mathematics have time and again met the rigorous scrutiny of his peers over these many years. Truly great men of science are a rare breed indeed!
These days, science seems to have become a lot more trivial than in the old days... Now that various tools are now a part of our everyday lives (computers, cell phones, etc), people just don't pay as much attention.
Plus, most of the great barriers have been overcome (Flight, faster than sound, spaceflight, etc.). Faster than light is one of the few left, I think. Plus perhaps visiting a nearby solar system, which won't likely happen in my lifetime unless I hitch a ride at Area 51 or something...
Mars is simply a matter of time in my book. It'd be a bigger deal if it currently had life on it. As it is, I look it as simply a bigger, grander moonshot. We'll live there IF WE HAVE TO, but otherwise just visit occasionally.
There you go! It's a little more difficult to change the batteries in NASA's KIPASS fob though. Lot's of training involved.
You need a vigorously active manned space program to advance on a plan for a Mars voyage, one in which we do not have. Being that it has basically been deconstructed, I have little hope that it will be revived in the forseeable future.
Sad indeed.
Dan
Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity.
Can you imgine if Einstein was alive today and in his prime?
Yeah, all of our GPS's would be off, 'cuz Relativity would have just been discovered.
Oh, and WWII may have went on a bit longer. The atom bomb might be a new fangled idea instead of being 76 years old. Nuclear reactors might also be a new fangled idea, and if so, most if not all of our navies would be using fossil fuels instead of reactors. Most submarines would as a consequence be less stealthy due to their diesel motors. Sean Connery would not have starred in The Hunt For Red October due to the book not being written, I really enjoyed that movie.
Of course, some other guy might have come up with the theory, and we wouldn't have those lovable Einstein mug shots!
http://www.google.com/search?q=einstein+tongue&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1048&bih=636