16th March 2004, 6:56 PM
What's the point? What's the POINT? You are NOT a human! All humanity has always strived to move on, explore beyond the boundries, continue onwards to the next step, never staying still, never just using what is, but imagining, innovating new things! That's the special ability of the human species! To say it's stupid to do such things, or to not do those things one's self, is to not BE human! YOU ARE A MILLION YEARS UNDEREVOLVED! PRIMITIVE MONKEY!
...anyway, Mars is the next step on our journey to who knows what... It's the drive to go onward. If we didn't do these things, we wouldn't even have spears or fire. I'm not saying living like every other life form, without innovation, is a BAD thing, but it's CERTAINLY not human, since that is what DEFINES us as a species. To not continue to invent, explore, and go onward, is to become stagnant. Our current world has a LOT of people who only know their current life, and do not strive to do anything other than create other life forms doomed to the same existance. Sure, they have the standard teen rebellion, but they do it all wrong and rebel against change itself without even knowing it.
Okay ASM, sorry to offend, but really that hill is just plainly not any sign of intelligence at all. It doesn't even resemble one under high resolution imagery. Even with the low res one, it's only HALF a face and at that the bits that resemble a human face are obiously just shadows. Considering there's no other evidence at all of some sort of martian civilization, this one thing that is so easy to dismiss with a simpler explanation shouldn't even be thought of. If they happen to be nearby, sure take a look I guess, but otherwise why bother when there are far more interesting things to be found there?
Finally, just to make it clear to Fits, if you stay inside all day, just because you don't see the point of going out, you never change. Now, I'm a nerd so I myself stay inside most of the time, but I DO go outside every now and then because I MUST learn what there is out there, I MUST change. I am not perfect as I am now, so I must continue to evolve and adapt and learn more and more and more until this ultimate goal is achieved. One must never be satisfied that they have "done enough". You can't stay still by the way when it comes to progress. Either you are moving forwards or backwards, but never still. For example, since landing on the moon, Nasa, while the technology has moved forwards, has moved steadily backwards in terms of funding and focus. I may end up voting for Bush soley because of his move to go forwards (and no, I don't care what the man's motivations are behind it, the point is that NASA has the orders to gain focus and the funding to get the project done), so if the other candidates know what's good for them, they will offer the same thing. Fits, you may say this now, but should we finally begin our exploration of our solar system, maybe terraformation of Mars (that is VERY possible, and if it was fully funded and started now, the planet could be livible, outside in the open air, within around 100 Earth years), you'll see the importance, or maybe you won't. However, everyone who lives on that world in the future will certainly find it important. And, when the last barrier is broken, travel between stars (far more challenging than local space), that's when exploration will be limitless. There will be enough unexplored to keep humanity's fire burning for the rest of the universe's life span. Eventually yes, the universe itself will evaporate into nothingness itself, stretched out infinitly with no hope of ever starting up again, thus time itself has stopped. However, there's a long time until then, and a long time for humanity to enjoy it's time. Let's not have wasted it by staying in the smallest possible section until the sun destroys us long before the universe itself goes away. What a sad thing... As a Christian, this assumes Revelations won't occur for a frickin' long time, but well honestly I refuse to base future plans on a date God has specifically stated no one can ever know, so I'll assume it could very well happen ten seconds before the last planet we are on is torn apart from the sheering force of dark energy, because that way I don't leave myself without a plan if Destiny doesn't occur earlier like some may think (and could easily be wrong about).
Further more, between now and that distant time, perhaps a way to become beings constructed of pure time/space itself will be found (or some tripe bit of sci-fi I'm making up as I go along), so that matter/energy won't be needed and some existance can still go on even after the expansion into nothing. I dunno, just please fits, rekindle that fire of Quest! If you think that's cheesy, prepare to hear worse if you don't!
...anyway, Mars is the next step on our journey to who knows what... It's the drive to go onward. If we didn't do these things, we wouldn't even have spears or fire. I'm not saying living like every other life form, without innovation, is a BAD thing, but it's CERTAINLY not human, since that is what DEFINES us as a species. To not continue to invent, explore, and go onward, is to become stagnant. Our current world has a LOT of people who only know their current life, and do not strive to do anything other than create other life forms doomed to the same existance. Sure, they have the standard teen rebellion, but they do it all wrong and rebel against change itself without even knowing it.
Okay ASM, sorry to offend, but really that hill is just plainly not any sign of intelligence at all. It doesn't even resemble one under high resolution imagery. Even with the low res one, it's only HALF a face and at that the bits that resemble a human face are obiously just shadows. Considering there's no other evidence at all of some sort of martian civilization, this one thing that is so easy to dismiss with a simpler explanation shouldn't even be thought of. If they happen to be nearby, sure take a look I guess, but otherwise why bother when there are far more interesting things to be found there?
Finally, just to make it clear to Fits, if you stay inside all day, just because you don't see the point of going out, you never change. Now, I'm a nerd so I myself stay inside most of the time, but I DO go outside every now and then because I MUST learn what there is out there, I MUST change. I am not perfect as I am now, so I must continue to evolve and adapt and learn more and more and more until this ultimate goal is achieved. One must never be satisfied that they have "done enough". You can't stay still by the way when it comes to progress. Either you are moving forwards or backwards, but never still. For example, since landing on the moon, Nasa, while the technology has moved forwards, has moved steadily backwards in terms of funding and focus. I may end up voting for Bush soley because of his move to go forwards (and no, I don't care what the man's motivations are behind it, the point is that NASA has the orders to gain focus and the funding to get the project done), so if the other candidates know what's good for them, they will offer the same thing. Fits, you may say this now, but should we finally begin our exploration of our solar system, maybe terraformation of Mars (that is VERY possible, and if it was fully funded and started now, the planet could be livible, outside in the open air, within around 100 Earth years), you'll see the importance, or maybe you won't. However, everyone who lives on that world in the future will certainly find it important. And, when the last barrier is broken, travel between stars (far more challenging than local space), that's when exploration will be limitless. There will be enough unexplored to keep humanity's fire burning for the rest of the universe's life span. Eventually yes, the universe itself will evaporate into nothingness itself, stretched out infinitly with no hope of ever starting up again, thus time itself has stopped. However, there's a long time until then, and a long time for humanity to enjoy it's time. Let's not have wasted it by staying in the smallest possible section until the sun destroys us long before the universe itself goes away. What a sad thing... As a Christian, this assumes Revelations won't occur for a frickin' long time, but well honestly I refuse to base future plans on a date God has specifically stated no one can ever know, so I'll assume it could very well happen ten seconds before the last planet we are on is torn apart from the sheering force of dark energy, because that way I don't leave myself without a plan if Destiny doesn't occur earlier like some may think (and could easily be wrong about).
Further more, between now and that distant time, perhaps a way to become beings constructed of pure time/space itself will be found (or some tripe bit of sci-fi I'm making up as I go along), so that matter/energy won't be needed and some existance can still go on even after the expansion into nothing. I dunno, just please fits, rekindle that fire of Quest! If you think that's cheesy, prepare to hear worse if you don't!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)