Man, that was whole bunch of ignorance jammed up in that there link.

OH NOES!!! TEH MICROBES!! SEW UP YOUR ANUS IS ONLY HOPE11!~

gopher321: Man, that was whole bunch of ignorance jammed up in that there link.

Truely remarkable.

ummm, your blog sucks?

I could go to the Special Olympics later and this would still be the most retarded thing I'd see all day.

I would have gone with the amusing tag.

Really submitter you believe that crap?

Step 1: write post containing links to a bunch of flat earther morans.
Step two: Have people link to it and call the writer incomprehensible things.
Step III: plan worked of making people think that all of the links are just crazy shiat.
SFSJDIKSGI$%$$^%$$4545: All your base belong to us,,fvnasdjfdvjfdan fud..

Did someone get paid actual money for writing that?

Ah I see someone has found GaryPDX's blog.

Imo the author wrote that at 4 am while totally ripped

Raoul Eaton: Did someone get paid actual money for writing that?

I dunno, the real question is did Drew get paid for greenlighting it.

GleeUnit: Whatever. Call me when the Space Nazis get here.

Well, we have Anti-Space Nazi..

LewDux: GleeUnit: Whatever. Call me when the Space Nazis get here.

Well, we have Anti-Space Nazi..

US Nazis > Russian Nazis

Crispy beer-battered Christ, that managed to derp even harder than Pravda's conspiracy theory article from a few days ago. Congratulations, America, on not allowing a herpderp gap.

Not to bust too many bubbles but Carl Sagan was one of the early advocates of Phobos is a hollowed out moon jammed with mementos of the dead Martian civilization. It was among his stupidest ideas and proof that even very smart folks can be very STUPID on occasion.

which, incidentally, may not be a moon at all, but a hollow satellite built by the Martians to house the remains of their dying civilization - or even a ship

Why not just live beneath the surface of Mars, which is still very much intact, and park your ships in there too? It would be a hell of a lot safer.

a California lab decided to infest the probe with live microbes before sending it on its way to Mars

That is wildly irresponsible, and actually seems to be the real meat of the article. He's right that it could be some kind of bioweapon meant to tumble down somewhere, but i'm skeptical it would be effective at all against a race much more advanced than us.

J. Frank Parnell: which, incidentally, may not be a moon at all, but a hollow satellite built by the Martians to house the remains of their dying civilization - or even a ship

Why not just live beneath the surface of Mars, which is still very much intact, and park your ships in there too? It would be a hell of a lot safer.

a California lab decided to infest the probe with live microbes before sending it on its way to Mars

That is wildly irresponsible, and actually seems to be the real meat of the article. He's right that it could be some kind of bioweapon meant to tumble down somewhere, but i'm skeptical it would be effective at all against a race much more advanced than us.

Lets say for the sake of argument that the thing is some kind of disguised bio-weapon... why? What possible reason would the Russians have to unleash a deadly bacteria at this moment? And why not just release such a thing in an airport somewhere?

Eirik: What possible reason would the Russians have to unleash a deadly bacteria at this moment? And why not just release such a thing in an airport somewhere?

Also, since it was a California lab that did it, it would have to be a secret plan of the US and Russia, and i'm not sure if they even have mutual enemies, at least overtly.

It could, however, be some kind of depopulation plan. If you wanted to only take out certain genetic groups, or those who were not already selectively immunized, and kill everyone else, then you'd want to cover as much of the Earth as possible, and that would be the best way to do it.

Lets just hope those in power aren't truly that demented.

Eirik: J. Frank Parnell: which, incidentally, may not be a moon at all, but a hollow satellite built by the Martians to house the remains of their dying civilization - or even a ship

Why not just live beneath the surface of Mars, which is still very much intact, and park your ships in there too? It would be a hell of a lot safer.

a California lab decided to infest the probe with live microbes before sending it on its way to Mars

That is wildly irresponsible, and actually seems to be the real meat of the article. He's right that it could be some kind of bioweapon meant to tumble down somewhere, but i'm skeptical it would be effective at all against a race much more advanced than us.

Lets say for the sake of argument that the thing is some kind of disguised bio-weapon... why? What possible reason would the Russians have to unleash a deadly bacteria at this moment? And why not just release such a thing in an airport somewhere?

More than likely it was to test to see if that microorgainism can survive space and life on mars.

Naesen: Eirik: J. Frank Parnell: which, incidentally, may not be a moon at all, but a hollow satellite built by the Martians to house the remains of their dying civilization - or even a ship

Why not just live beneath the surface of Mars, which is still very much intact, and park your ships in there too? It would be a hell of a lot safer.

a California lab decided to infest the probe with live microbes before sending it on its way to Mars

That is wildly irresponsible, and actually seems to be the real meat of the article. He's right that it could be some kind of bioweapon meant to tumble down somewhere, but i'm skeptical it would be effective at all against a race much more advanced than us.

Lets say for the sake of argument that the thing is some kind of disguised bio-weapon... why? What possible reason would the Russians have to unleash a deadly bacteria at this moment? And why not just release such a thing in an airport somewhere?

More than likely it was to test to see if that microorgainism can survive space and life on mars.

Hey! Hey! HEY!

Logic has no place in this discussion!!

Naesen: More than likely it was to test to see if that microorgainism can survive space and life on mars.

There have been rules for years now about sterilizing anything sent to other planets, and there are methods to test how micro-organisms survive in space without sending them to another planet.

Naesen: More than likely it was to test to see if that microorgainism can survive space and life on mars.

I seem to remember reading that such an experiment was in the works. If we ever hope to establish permanent colonies on Mars, a very useful first step would be to know what lifeforms that already exist on Earth that could survive on Mars.

I can't remember where I read it, though.

So these microbes will survive the fiery explosion from the highly combustible fuel?

I confuse.

Compounding the insanity, a California lab decided to infest the probe with live microbes before sending it on its way to Mars, to the unease of scientists everywhere (the microbial morons also apparently forgot that deadly microbes become even deadlier in space.) The only explanation for this move: it was a naïve college experiment to test the plot believability of Grade Z 1980s zombie movies.

We get to have a zombie apocalypse.

If I am not eating your tasty flesh I will be dismembering your geek heads with a shovel. Can't wait.

Delawheredad: Not to bust too many bubbles but Carl Sagan was one of the early advocates of Phobos is a hollowed out moon jammed with mementos of the dead Martian civilization. It was among his stupidest ideas and proof that even very smart folks can be very STUPID on occasion.

Not quite. It was I.S. Shklovskii's idea, expressed in a book he wrote with Carl Sagan. Of that idea, Carl Sagan said, "Conceivably, the capture and hollowing of a small asteroid may be technically more feasible than the construction in orbit of an artificial satellite with material brought from the surface."

I wouldn't call it advocating the idea...

anfrind,
Naesen: More than likely it was to test to see if that microorgainism can survive space and life on mars.
I seem to remember reading that such an experiment was in the works. If we ever hope to establish permanent colonies on Mars, a very useful first step would be to know what lifeforms that already exist on Earth that could survive on Mars.
I can't remember where I read it, though.

This would be a great plotpoint for a new sci-fi series. Homo Sapiens accidently create human life on Mars, then we end up competing with them for resources in our solar system.

/Off the top of my head it sounds too much like the most recent Battlestar. It might have already been done already too.

1000 Ways to Dye: I wouldn't call it advocating the idea...

Any theoretical talk of something strange to us is to be stamped out with ridicule. The only true intelligence is memorization of what's already been established, and finding ways to further prove what's already been established.

/And they wonder why there's no more geniuses anymore.

1000 Ways to Dye: Delawheredad: Not to bust too many bubbles but Carl Sagan was one of the early advocates of Phobos is a hollowed out moon jammed with mementos of the dead Martian civilization. It was among his stupidest ideas and proof that even very smart folks can be very STUPID on occasion.

Not quite. It was I.S. Shklovskii's idea, expressed in a book he wrote with Carl Sagan. Of that idea, Carl Sagan said, "Conceivably, the capture and hollowing of a small asteroid may be technically more feasible than the construction in orbit of an artificial satellite with material brought from the surface."

I wouldn't call it advocating the idea...

Well the fact that the asteroid would be full of radioactive rare earth minerals which could produce a good amount of fuel but the whole radiation poisoning thing would be quite the let down.

So 12Monkeys or not? I need to know when to stop hanging around the infecteds.

This isn't a failed biological weapon, it's working just as planned. The only differences is that Russia did not wait for the US to nuke them first.

Metallica tried warning us with their All Nightmare Long (new window) video, but everyone ignored them.

Pretty soon we're all going to be zombies. Who's laughing now...huh? Who?

That author is obviously an alien. Afterall, no earthling shiats out of the mouth.

/cue South Park pics

I've been reading a lot of pre WWII science fiction lately and this felt right about that period.

J. Frank Parnell: which, incidentally, may not be a moon at all, but a hollow satellite built by the Martians to house the remains of their dying civilization - or even a ship

Why not just live beneath the surface of Mars, which is still very much intact, and park your ships in there too? It would be a hell of a lot safer.


A plausible reason to inhabit a moon would be to take advantage of a lesser gravity well.

\I in no way endorse or condone the herp-derp that is this article.
\\I feel bilious about even contributing to this thread ...

torch: Submitter has apparently never heard of this thing we call friction. Rocket fuel and microbes....BWAHAHAHA.


Apparently you haven't heard that the heat from re-entry is not from friction, but rather mostly from ultra-fast compression (ionization/disassociation) of the air in front of the falling body.


"The great speed of entry produce shock waves, which are abrupt transitions in the thermodynamic properties of the air. Air goes from essentially zero speed, low pressure, and ambient temperature to high speed, high pressure, and very high temperature very quickly. Lots of energy is added before the air even gets to the vehicle. That said, the wave of a reentry vehicle is only a short distance from the vehicle itself, so the air is deflected around the heat shield, generating further heat through direct friction. This is not that much compared to the heat generated before the vehicle gets to it, but it is still significant.

So much of the heating is done by the compression through the shock, but there is also friction. "

Link (new window)

Could anyone actually read past half of that...