Comments on: The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-case-for-mars-the-plan-to-settle-the-red-planet-and-why-we-must Accelerating Intelligence Tue, 21 May 2013 21:12:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: b http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-case-for-mars-the-plan-to-settle-the-red-planet-and-why-we-must/comment-page-1#comment-148096 b Tue, 14 May 2013 06:14:02 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=184919#comment-148096 lol lol

]]> By: Greg http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-case-for-mars-the-plan-to-settle-the-red-planet-and-why-we-must/comment-page-1#comment-134994 Greg Sat, 06 Apr 2013 02:40:05 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=184919#comment-134994 The idea that the sun will become hostile to life on earth and will end, contradictsa a benevalant, all powerful creator. Humanity is in a bind. It seems we need this all powerful, creator concept, but it could harm us in the long run. Maybe we might need to transform to non carbon life foms, first, to have enough confidence, in putting to rest the idea of an all powerful creator. Ionly hope we don't self extingush before then. If we get past. these things then terraforming Mars and a more will definitly become reality. The other veiw of what I wrote, is: we need things like Mars exploration to give technology a boost, so we can transform our substrate. The idea that the sun will become hostile to life on earth and will end, contradictsa a benevalant, all powerful creator. Humanity is in a bind. It seems we need this all powerful, creator concept, but it could harm us in the long run. Maybe we might need to transform to non carbon life foms, first, to have enough confidence, in putting to rest the idea of an all powerful creator. Ionly hope we don’t self extingush before then. If we get past. these things then terraforming Mars and a more will definitly become reality. The other veiw of what I wrote, is: we need things like Mars exploration to give technology a boost, so we can transform our substrate.

]]> By: Ghadel http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-case-for-mars-the-plan-to-settle-the-red-planet-and-why-we-must/comment-page-1#comment-134971 Ghadel Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:39:30 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=184919#comment-134971 The Rare Earth hypothesis is patently false when evidence that demonstrates Earth's visitation by and interference with many extraterrestrial species for millennia or longer is considered. There is already sure knowledge that on our own moon many ET facilities exist. If there exist ET structures on our moon, more are almost certain to exist on Mars. The extraterrestrials engage us in a sort of "Prime Directive" way; though, as I have previously stated, they have, on occasion, "interfered" with our civilization. There have been many recorded modern and ancient sightings of their craft and even encounters with the beings that operate them. All of this information can be validated primarily at www.disclosureproject.org. The Rare Earth hypothesis is patently false when evidence that demonstrates Earth’s visitation by and interference with many extraterrestrial species for millennia or longer is considered.

There is already sure knowledge that on our own moon many ET facilities exist. If there exist ET structures on our moon, more are almost certain to exist on Mars.

The extraterrestrials engage us in a sort of “Prime Directive” way; though, as I have previously stated, they have, on occasion, “interfered” with our civilization. There have been many recorded modern and ancient sightings of their craft and even encounters with the beings that operate them.

All of this information can be validated primarily at http://www.disclosureproject.org.

]]> By: GatorALLin http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-case-for-mars-the-plan-to-settle-the-red-planet-and-why-we-must/comment-page-1#comment-133381 GatorALLin Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:51:26 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=184919#comment-133381 I remember learning that our Sun was about 4.6 billion years old and that it was likely to last for about 10 billion years total, so I just assumed we had another 5 billion years if we were basically at the half way point in its lifecycle. What I did not understand that was the sun is slowly expanding by about 10% in size and heat every billion years, so that in just half a billion years from now that increase in heat would translate to all the oceans on Earth vaporizing and burning off and maybe Earth seems more like Mars by then...... clearly we could do a lot of things in the next 500 million years to avert some atmospheric collapse/destruction (maybe we make a solar powered space shield of sorts by then to get free power for the world and block some of that heat energy to save the planet ...but of course then this idea to live one planet over might look even better by then also. Maybe at some point many billions of years later when the sun expands (even if the gravity lessens and thus the orbits expand with that change), the human race (if we are even anything close to carbon based life forms at that point) might need Mars to survive by then or at the very least have our eggs in more than one basket. There must be 100 other better reasons to be on Mars by then.... anyhow the idea our Sun would always be there and always this great warming power source and life giver might one day burn too bright. I love all these efforts to get a human mission to Mars in the near future. We have so much to learn and so cool to see how much the technology has to improve to make humans ready for longer space flights and also the ability to survive long term on other planets. The meaning of life is to give life meaning... hard to do that unless we get off this rock and hope all this knowledge we gather does not burn out with just us. It probably is not dependant just on us, but what if we are the only (or first by a lot) intelligent life force in the Universe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis I remember learning that our Sun was about 4.6 billion years old and that it was likely to last for about 10 billion years total, so I just assumed we had another 5 billion years if we were basically at the half way point in its lifecycle. What I did not understand that was the sun is slowly expanding by about 10% in size and heat every billion years, so that in just half a billion years from now that increase in heat would translate to all the oceans on Earth vaporizing and burning off and maybe Earth seems more like Mars by then…… clearly we could do a lot of things in the next 500 million years to avert some atmospheric collapse/destruction (maybe we make a solar powered space shield of sorts by then to get free power for the world and block some of that heat energy to save the planet …but of course then this idea to live one planet over might look even better by then also. Maybe at some point many billions of years later when the sun expands (even if the gravity lessens and thus the orbits expand with that change), the human race (if we are even anything close to carbon based life forms at that point) might need Mars to survive by then or at the very least have our eggs in more than one basket. There must be 100 other better reasons to be on Mars by then…. anyhow the idea our Sun would always be there and always this great warming power source and life giver might one day burn too bright.

I love all these efforts to get a human mission to Mars in the near future. We have so much to learn and so cool to see how much the technology has to improve to make humans ready for longer space flights and also the ability to survive long term on other planets.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning… hard to do that unless we get off this rock and hope all this knowledge we gather does not burn out with just us. It probably is not dependant just on us, but what if we are the only (or first by a lot) intelligent life force in the Universe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis

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