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Send your mining barges to Mars

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Luc Chastot
#1 - 2012-10-31 20:45:33 UTC
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2012-10-31 21:17:04 UTC
The red planet has large amounts of iron you say. Well colour me shocked!
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2012-10-31 21:24:40 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
The red planet has large amounts of iron you say. Well colour me shocked!


I see what you did there Big smile

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Elias Greyhand
#4 - 2012-10-31 21:27:15 UTC
I'd like to send a small androgynous entertainer to Mars, does that count?

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Luc Chastot
#5 - 2012-10-31 21:35:37 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
The red planet has large amounts of iron you say. Well colour me shocked!


I also see what you did there, but pyroxenes and olivine are not red, but green. On the contrary, crocoite is red, but it doesn't have any iron.

So, even though the joke was funny, it doesn't make sense. Sorry. Sad

Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Bigpimping
Pimp Inc.
#6 - 2012-10-31 22:38:14 UTC
Luc Chastot wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
The red planet has large amounts of iron you say. Well colour me shocked!


I also see what you did there, but pyroxenes and olivine are not red, but green. On the contrary, crocoite is red, but it doesn't have any iron.

So, even though the joke was funny, it doesn't make sense. Sorry. Sad


Yes, and Mars only looks red because we see it through a blue sky. If you landed on it it would be green.


Baltec, whilst calling it the "red planet" (which is just the Earth name for Mars as thats how it appears to us) was aware of the true colour of mars, so his statement was in fact a sensible one.
Luc Chastot
#7 - 2012-10-31 23:31:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Luc Chastot
Bigpimping wrote:
Luc Chastot wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
The red planet has large amounts of iron you say. Well colour me shocked!


I also see what you did there, but pyroxenes and olivine are not red, but green. On the contrary, crocoite is red, but it doesn't have any iron.

So, even though the joke was funny, it doesn't make sense. Sorry. Sad


Yes, and Mars only looks red because we see it through a blue sky. If you landed on it it would be green.


Baltec, whilst calling it the "red planet" (which is just the Earth name for Mars as thats how it appears to us) was aware of the true colour of mars, so his statement was in fact a sensible one.



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

Read the text under the photo.

Edit: Lol, thanks Surfin's. I don't know if that was my keyboard or my dysgraphia, honestly.

Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-10-31 23:32:20 UTC
Luc Chastot wrote:
Bigpimping wrote:
Luc Chastot wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
The red planet has large amounts of iron you say. Well colour me shocked!


I also see what you did there, but pyroxenes and olivine are not red, but green. On the contrary, crocoite is red, but it doesn't have any iron.

So, even though the joke was funny, it doesn't make sense. Sorry. Sad


Yes, and Mars only looks red because we see it through a blue sky. If you landed on it it would be green.


Baltec, whilst calling it the "red planet" (which is just the Earth name for Mars as thats how it appears to us) was aware of the true colour of mars, so his statement was in fact a sensible one.



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

Red the text under the photo.


I see no red text Straight

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Bigpimping
Pimp Inc.
#9 - 2012-11-01 00:28:02 UTC
Luc Chastot wrote:
Bigpimping wrote:
Luc Chastot wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
The red planet has large amounts of iron you say. Well colour me shocked!


I also see what you did there, but pyroxenes and olivine are not red, but green. On the contrary, crocoite is red, but it doesn't have any iron.

So, even though the joke was funny, it doesn't make sense. Sorry. Sad


Yes, and Mars only looks red because we see it through a blue sky. If you landed on it it would be green.


Baltec, whilst calling it the "red planet" (which is just the Earth name for Mars as thats how it appears to us) was aware of the true colour of mars, so his statement was in fact a sensible one.



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

Read the text under the photo.



Yes and next to the caption is the male gender symbol. Claiming that mars is a man is a fairly dubious (and impossible) claim and makes it very difficult to trust any other information on that page as cold hard fact.

This association of a gender to a celestial body is just another example of people naming/ labelling things inconsistently (or even incorrectly) purely due by the fact that those labels are more familiar to them in their ignorance.

Case in point; the blue whale isn't really blue, more of a greyish/whitish colour, it's only named as such as we see it through the blue ocean.



Please just rethink your position and accept that Mars is truly green.
Luc Chastot
#10 - 2012-11-01 00:40:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Luc Chastot
Sigh. I won't discuss the reasons why there is the astrological male symbol beside the name, because discussing how encyclopedias are made is kinda off-topic.

"True-color view of Mars seen through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1999"

Also: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/spirit/a12_20040128.html

Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#11 - 2012-11-01 00:54:41 UTC
Mars actually does have a blue sky, and it's one of the many things NASA routinely lies about. But i still think it's pretty much a desert.

"In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness." ~Miyamoto Musashi
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2012-11-01 01:54:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
And this is what Venus looks like. Big smile

Russians got a probe on the surface and it took a very grainy black and white image before the most-hostile-to-anything atmosphere killed it Big smile

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Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#13 - 2012-11-01 03:04:29 UTC
Would do, want to mine the asteroids, solves every problem you can name. Mars is silly to mine due to the gravity well you have to lift the raw materials out from. Even if we make an orbital elevator there (which we can with current technology) it intersects the orbit of Phobos.

Name me a problem that mining asteroids cannot fix!

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2012-11-01 03:39:05 UTC
Kirjava wrote:
Would do, want to mine the asteroids, solves every problem you can name. Mars is silly to mine due to the gravity well you have to lift the raw materials out from. Even if we make an orbital elevator there (which we can with current technology) it intersects the orbit of Phobos.

Name me a problem that mining asteroids cannot fix!


Boredom?

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Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#15 - 2012-11-01 03:41:43 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
[Boredom?


In real life it would be pretty cool actually. Whether we were just grabbing ones that came close or landing on distant large ones.

"In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness." ~Miyamoto Musashi
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2012-11-01 03:42:22 UTC
Bane Necran wrote:
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
[Boredom?


In real life it would be pretty cool actually. Whether we were just grabbing ones that came close or landing on distant large ones.


Unless it has Steve Buscemi riding a nuke, I say meh!

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Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#17 - 2012-11-01 03:50:21 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Unless it has Steve Buscemi riding a nuke, I say meh!


I'm sure we can throw together an equally ragtag group of misfits for the job. I'm not promising full Buscemi factor, but it may have traces of Buscemi.

"In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness." ~Miyamoto Musashi
ISD TYPE40
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#18 - 2012-11-01 21:58:05 UTC
Kirjava wrote:
Would do, want to mine the asteroids, solves every problem you can name. Mars is silly to mine due to the gravity well you have to lift the raw materials out from. Even if we make an orbital elevator there (which we can with current technology) it intersects the orbit of Phobos.

Name me a problem that mining asteroids cannot fix!



The issue of Phobos and possibly Deimos' orbital paths intersecting any Elevator system can be overcome with a simple (in relative terms) oscillation of the cable. As long as the cable is not physically anchored, but rather magnetically anchored, at both ends, then such oscillation would be a non-destructive and viable method for ensuring the system remains fully operational.

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MinefieldS
1 Sick Duck Standss on something
#19 - 2012-11-02 02:02:00 UTC
Send your destroyers to Mars to gank all the mining barges.
Luc Chastot
#20 - 2012-11-02 12:15:13 UTC
Kirjava wrote:
Would do, want to mine the asteroids, solves every problem you can name. Mars is silly to mine due to the gravity well you have to lift the raw materials out from. Even if we make an orbital elevator there (which we can with current technology) it intersects the orbit of Phobos.

Name me a problem that mining asteroids cannot fix!


CCP, we need strips with moar range. 15km ain't cutting it, we need a hundred-fold increase. Add a capital tractor beam to them while you're at it. Thanks.

Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.