Ray Bradbury's Reasons to Go to Mars 387
An anonymous reader writes "Ray Bradbury's testimony to the Presidential blue-ribbon Commission, 'Moon to Mars and Beyond', covers a range of rather optimistic space-related topics, including why three Italians should be the first on Mars. But at age 83, Bradbury's next book, entitled 'Too Soon From the Cave, Too Far From the Stars' seems to set an overall vision that this is an in-between generation caught between the brutal and primitive and the advanced."
Braces self (Score:3, Funny)
Why? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not thirsty (Score:1, Funny)
Cave life (Score:5, Funny)
'Too Soon From the Cave, Too Far From the Stars'
Yeah, much too soon. One minute you're an ape triumphantly hurtling a bone into the air under the theme of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', and next thing you know, the bone turns into an orbiting satellite in the year 2001. Also, you've become human and there's this weird monolith on the moon.
Talk about culture shock ...
Re:We have to go... (Score:5, Funny)
Except a largish cometary impact.
Too Soon From The Cave (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Uh... (Score:0, Funny)
Quote from Ray Bradbury (Score:5, Funny)
"If we can find any living relatives of Columbus, and Caboto, and Verrazzano - wouldn't that be remarkable if we could send them on the first manned rocket to Mars."
Descendants of Columbus?! Oh sure, so we're going to send out another white man to treat the native Martians as slaves. Great idea!
Re:Who to send out there (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why Ray Bradbury? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Too Soon From The Cave (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Beat The Chinese (Score:3, Funny)
Our IT companies are losing out to cheap foreign competitors from countries that are poor but have highly-educated workforces. A newly colonized Mars would be extremely poor (no natural resources!) and everyone who lived there would be a MENSA-level scientist!. There's no way a patriotic John Q. MSCE could compete with that kind of competition competitively.
Also, if some Chicom "hacker" outfit wanted to publish stolen source code or red-blooded American credit card passwords over the World Wide Web, a Mars-based broadcasting rig would be unreachable by current missile technology!!!
Our national security and livelihoods are in danger. We must colonize Mars immediately and render it a Chicom-free zone.
Re:We have to go... (Score:5, Funny)
Nothing, perhaps, except marriage.
"Honey, I'm going out to explore Mars."
"Not before you clean out the garage.
Re:Who to send out there (Score:2, Funny)
"three Italians should be the first on Mars" (Score:1, Funny)
Re:"three Italians should be the first on Mars" (Score:1, Funny)
Um, why? Personally, I think she should stay right here on Earth. If she goes to Mars, all my chances of scoring with her will be ruined!
Re:We have to go... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh no! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bradbury needs a history lesson (Score:2, Funny)
american-centic (Score:1, Funny)
Re:We have to go... (Score:3, Funny)
Seller: Yes. It's in great condition
Book Dealer: Well, there's not much call for Bradburys... they generally aren't very rare.
Seller: But mine is UNSIGNED!
Dealer: (drooling) Would you take a cashier's checks? I don't have that kind of cash on hand!
Re:I like the way Commandar Sinclair put it. (Score:4, Funny)
Must... Resist... Obvious... Jokes... (Score:5, Funny)
including why three Italians should be the first on Mars
Re:We have to go... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:From the link (Score:3, Funny)
Why not just say it was published in 1988?
Grinning, ducking, and running...