I would have to get very very bored down here.
I would have to get very very bored down here.
('-'*)/ - "sup"
Neptune is a gas giant, you won't be able to see anything at all interesting and you'll be stuck inside a space station. By the time it gets to the point where you can go outside and/or actually see anything it'll be terraformed, same as with Mars.Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs
Well first of all I think climbing Mons Olympus or walking the length of Valles Marineris would be pretty cool regardless of oceans and trout, and I don't see how the Moon is any cooler than Mars is, but I think the main reason I would want to live there is because it is another smurfing planet holy trout how awesome is that.That's not it at all.
Mars is just a smurfing trout hole. Why would anyone want to live there? If it a was cool planet with like oceans and trout, or the moon or something--sure.
We can't make an ocean? We destroyed one in twenty years by smurfing accident, and all we need to do with Mars is slam some ice asteroids into the planet. I'm pretty sure we can make one if we wanted to. I don't know what your obsession with oceans is though, I mean if it's the naval angle then you've got spaceships.
Also I guess it'd be fair enough to take offense at being called an idiot. If only I had done so.
I'm having some trouble and perhaps you can help me: Can you show me where I said any of that stuff in my post? Because I'm pretty sure I didn't say a goddamn thing about the wonders of Earth, exploring places on this planet, or pushing myself or the boundaries of art and science. In fact I think there are an enormous number of things down here on Earth that are amazing and if I had the means I'd be out there exploring every last corner of the planet. Heck one of the things I'd love to do is visit the world's most extreme points, like the most northerly inhabited place and the most remote islands and all kinds of things like that. I'd love to drive across America, or even from Nome to Tierra del Fuego. I desperately want to visit ancient sites like Troy and the Great Wall and the Karnak Temple Complex and Petra. The main reasons I'm not doing stuff like that is because of my disability and my lack of financial means. And I won't presume to claim that I'm succeeding but yes, I am actually trying to push the boundaries of literature.If you want to go, fine. I'll be happy to watch about your exploits. I really do think this will make for excellent TV.
But not wanting to go to a desolate hell scape is totally the reasonable response. Not having the basic elements of humankind my ass. Are you currently exploring all the wonders of Earth? Have you hiked the Pacific Crest Trail? Have you pushed yourself to run a 100 mile ultra marathon? Have you gone to the resource lacking nations of Earth to help build wells? Are you currently pushing the boundaries of science, literature, art? If you're not already doing all this stuff on earth, don't be sitting there acting all highfalutin just because you fetishize space exploration and think that by doing this one nightmarish thing, that this makes you better than all the people accomplishing extraordinary things right here on Earth.
Don't be that guy who doesn't want to do stuff simply because other people have done it before you. YOU still haven't done it. It's like when people stop liking a band because it becomes too mainstream. ugh.
I don't want to do anything 'first' (I won't deny it'd be cool as heck, but I don't want to do it to BE first or anything). I have absolutely no idea where you got that from. All I said was that I don't understand how people could lack the incessant drive to do things like go to Mars. The same drive that makes people explore the wonders of Earth, hike the Pacific Crest Trail, or run a 100 mile ultra-marathon is what makes people want to go to Mars. Pushing the boundaries of science? Hmmm I wonder what one of the primary reasons I "fetishize space travel" is. Maybe it's because the fruits of the space program to date have given us such technological wonders as advancing MRI Scanners, highly efficient solar panels, and little things like modern computers and the infrastructure needed for the Internet. So in short you quite literally listed a bunch of reasons that support my argument because unless you HAVE that drive to explore and understand absolutely none of that trout in your post even matters. I'm not acting "highfalutin", I'm saying that I don't comprehend how the ambition you are citing ends at the boundary of Earth's atmosphere.
But please do continue to be super mad because I consider curiosity and the desire to explore core, indeed defining, aspects of our species and I wonder how people can lack them.
Last edited by Madame Adequate; 03-29-2013 at 09:37 AM.
MILF, did you just call me a dickhead? Screw you, man. I don't deserve that sort of talk.
78 posts later and not a single quip about colonizing Uranus.Forshame eoff, forshame.
Again, MILF. How is not wanting to go to Mars lacking curiousity? smurf.
And for the record--yes, I know Neptune is a gaseous planet. It's also not smurfing ugly as trout like Mars.
You're ugly.
If that's ugly then I don't want to see beautiful.
not a problem78 posts later and not a single quip about colonizing Uranus.
If that's beautiful to you, I really don't want to see what your standards for beauty are.
If that's ugly then I don't want to see beautiful.
I think someone needs glasses.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ARS-Viking.jpg
Yeah, I'm not going to image tag that since the original is 6445x6445.
You think you're proving some point, but you really aren't.
What point? I'm just providing some stunning images for those in this thread that actually appreciate them. We've already determined that your taste in planets is somewhat suspect. I mean, of the three gas giants within the solar system you could choose from, you picked the least interesting and attractive one as your example of a beautiful planet? Everyone knows Jupiter is the best gas giant.
that serene beauty. it's almost like an ocean.
those rings. dear me, those rings.
yeah, jupiter's okay. but all the planets are.
Last edited by Denmark; 03-30-2013 at 12:43 AM. Reason: ITT we post pictures of the planets
Neptune is fairly monochromatic and Saturn is less interesting than its rings. Jupiters colour variations, storms that could swallow the Earth, and giant holes in it's atmosphere left by asteroid impactsare all more visually interesting if you ask me.
Plus watching the revolution of Jupiter is a thing of beauty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PI...ation_1fps.ogv
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