'Colonizing the Red Planet,' a How-To Guide 288
Velcroman1 writes "A manned mission to Mars would be the greatest adventure in the history of the human race. And one man knows how to make it a reality. In fact, he just wrote the book on it — literally. Joel Levine, senior research scientist with NASA's Langley Research Center and co-chair of NASA's Human Exploration of Mars Science Analysis Group, just published 'The Human Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet.' The book reads like a who's who of Mars mission science, featuring senators, astronauts, astrophysicists, geologists and more on getting to Mars, studying its atmosphere and climate, the psychological and medical effects on the crew and other details. The most interesting bit: Levine presents is a solution for funding the trip, something unprecedented for NASA: advertising. 'The suggestion is marketing to different corporations and professional sports leagues for advertising, which is something NASA never does.'"
Fight Club was right (Score:5, Funny)
When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
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When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
Uranus Proctology
Re:Fight Club was right (Score:4, Funny)
How come Microsoft gets to name an entire galaxy? I think this is another one of their b**s claims for "market share."
Sarcasm Warning.
'cuz Apple has already got the iVerse. Galaxy, pah.
Re:Fight Club was right (Score:3, Funny)
This just makes me so fucking sad. Everything in our future will be advertising. Imagine the golden arches painted on the surface of the moon, or a big Nike swoosh.
And you're sure this hasn't already happened? All those ancient 'hieroglyphics" - do they look like product placement or an actual language language? I thought so.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.