Oh! Oh! Pick me! Pick MEEE!!! 🙏🙃☺️🙃☺️

I think they 5 finger discount it being they don’t recognize patent/trademark laws.:evil6:

This!

Let's send all the extroverts. :1rotfl:

Uh oh!

Can. Open. Worms everywhere.

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So far, so good! 😏

C'mon, you know you're the second pick and you know who #1 is as well:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Don't survey any college kids about this issue. :laugh:

I don't think there was any altruistic or scientific motivation on the part of the Spanish Crown, not finding a shorter way to the orient they lucked out and raped, pillaged and plundered the native americans to their great proffit, as for growing plants it would take a huge amount of energy to keep spaces warm enough for plants to grow , lacking a magnetic field the solar wind would keep draining away your atmosphere and produce much more radiation than most plants could stand

Awww! I hate always being the number 2.

Growing food on Mars seemed very doable on the Martian.:bigbow:

Who said anything about altruistic motives, although it is possible. Chris was motivated in part by science. He believed the world is round and wanted to prove it. The Spanish bought into his claim for the potential gain they would receive, and the rest of Europe profited as well.
That's the way it works. Someone comes up with a possible answer to a question, but they need some kind of help or support to accomplish the necessary task. They sell it as a potential benefit to investors. The scientist/explorer gets to solve their riddle, and, if successful, the investors reap their reward.
And, often, research/exploration leads to unforeseen discoveries and benefits. And, society benefits.
Remember the old saying, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Seekers! Searchers! Explorers are we humans! To the Moon. To Mars. To the stars and beyond. We are made of star stuff, and to the stars we will return one day.
✨️

In about 5 billion years our sun will be getting to the point of being a Red Giant it will expand to the point of encompassing the orbit of earth, we won't have to go to it, it will reclaim us, Mars might be a better place then

Actually, everyone with any education at the time knew the world was spherical. Only the uneducated believed it was flat (as some still do today). Eratosthenes actually measured the circumference of the Earth pretty accurately in 300 BC.

They deep-fry Mars Bars in batter in Scotland.
Funny old world.

Yeah, we are all better off back in feudal times, when our betters owned everything for our own good, right?

'Ole Chris just went to where the money was. And his investor reaped so much profit in stolen Indian gold that the resulting inflation made sure the Spanish crown never had the wealth to invest in anything ever again. Odd that the "experts" didn't see that coming.

As for "terra-forming" Mars, isn't that sorta like killing off the buffalo to grow wheat, or even throwing another log on the fire to break the cycle of ice ages? I thought we were against manipulating environments for our own benefit, these days.

But if you really think we ought to make Mars livable, why not start with a much easier project -- Antarctica!