On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:48:00 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

Marvin the Martian wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:30:33 +0200, jacob navia wrote:

Marvin the Martian wrote:
Then Get your ass to Mars!

http://OnToMar.org/forum/


(1) Mars is beyond current technology. Only machines can live in there.
Any human expedition to Mars is just science fiction.

Actually, NASA was planning on going to Mars right after Apollo, back in
the early 1970s. This technology is almost 40 years old.

And it's a good thing they didn't; they *thought* they had the
technology but they didn't. There is no ****ing way that Apollo-era life
support systems would have sustained a crew to Mars and back,

Wait... SkyLab lasted 6 months of occupation and wasn't on the verge
of breaking down when the last crew left. There was a lot of work to
do, sure, but the Mars flight was tentatively planned for 1981, 8
years after SkyLab. "Life support would never have worked" sounds a
little too "Capricorn One" to me.

Brian