Nice parenting skills. What the hell is a 5-year-old doing screwing around with computer code or "skills"? Give him a damn baseball or something.

That's possible, but the real issue is that the electronics are likely to be damaged by extremely cold temperatures.

True, but of course the reason there is no interest is that it is not liable to be economically viable. The existing high-speed rail in the US is largely in the Northeast corridor because it can make money there. The proposed California high-speed rail (currently only planned to run between about Taft and Pixley) is a make-work project that has no potential for ever recouping the cost. That's the case for the vast majority of the US, there wouldn't be enough traffic and passengers to make it return the cost of building it and the astronomical cost of maintaining thousands of miles of high-speed rail.

Im sorry, I have to disagree. Sure, many of them will starve to death, but at least they won't have their precious bodily fluids polluted with whatever bad thing GM seeds supposedly might produce, or not.

      I base this opinion on solid scientific information gleaned from extensive late-night conspiracy radio shows. Besides, Monsanto!

Good tip! If only there was someplace to go, maybe on the intarwebs, that would just tell me what I should hate without the trouble of thinking for myself. At least until I develop the proper reflexive hatred for myself.

But, BIG AG! I mean, how do I understand these things without attributing them to boogeymen?

Of course there are frightfully few details, they have no idea how to go about this, and probably have no real plan. I would question whether they EVER plan to do the mission, but even leaving the obvious scam potential out of it, even a temporary mission would require technology and organization at the very limits of current possibility.

      No one is going to mars in the Mars One project, now, or ever.

Exactly right! Clearly, the Nazis are just misunderstood dreamers. Sure, they got a little out of hand, but how dare we show them in a negative light. Where's the balanced view?

I am not too sure what you are complaining about, "data" is plural by strict definition, if not common usage.

A whole lot of AWESOME!

What's that watermelon doing there?

You are kidding, right?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pa...

And of course the "moon landing hoax" nitwits have already convinced themselves that NASA, every involved contractor, all the astronauts, and our bitter rivals the USSR are part of the conspiracy. It would be a small matter to assume that the LRO pictures are also faked. That the fundamental nature of stupidity.

Lunakhod was only on the moon, and was driven at relatively high speeds using live drivers looking at TV to see where to go. This is patently impossibly on Mars due to the light travel time. Semi-autononomous navigation is far more sophisticated.

    It eventually died because of what might be characterized as a driving mistake, they came to close to the edge of a crater, scooped some dust on the solar array, then closed the lid, dumped the dust on the radiators, then overheated when the lid was opened on the next lunar day.

That would be silly indeed, since its clearly VI.

        Brett

Yes, my God, they expect you to show 5 days a week and do an honest days work! Damn those 1%ers!